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Social Media Roundup: AGU Fall Meeting 2014
It’s that time of year again! Time for frantic poster-printing, rearranging your talk slides for the third or fourth (or dozenth) time, hoping your flight into SFO will actually land on time and...
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AGU Fall Meeting 2014: Day 1
And we’re off! Monday was a mixed bag of service and science for me – I started off as a panelist for the first-ever workshop on Honors nominations, talking about the successful nominations I’ve seen...
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AGU Fall Meeting 2014: Day 2
Tuesday I spent most of my time in the poster hall – a full day on my feet, in fact, which I’m regretting slightly today. In the morning I was learning about fluids and mineralization in hydrothermal...
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AGU Fall Meeting 2014: Day 3
Wednesday was a bit of a break in terms of activities for me. I had the chance to sit down and listen to some talks about multiparameter monitoring at volcanoes (including hearing about Diana Roman’s...
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AGU Fall Meeting: Day 4
Thursday was a really exciting day. In the morning I sat in on a session about the hydrology of landslides, and especially how water storage in pore space affects landslide dynamics and discharge. It’s...
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On the importance of fictional role models
Last week, we learned that Leonard Nimoy died. Though it’s sad both because we’ve lost an amazing person and an icon of science fiction, it got me thinking about why I personally cared so much about...
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The clothes don’t make the scientist
I’m just as much a scientist in field gear as a dress – and neither is relevant in media coverage unless I’m talking about why I’m wearing the field gear! Those of you who saw my somewhat exasperated...
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Things you learn doing outreach
Note: I scheduled this post last week, so it will probably seem a little frivolous given recent geologic events in Nepal and Chile. There are a couple of other geobloggers covering those in much more...
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Domes galore: Obsidian Dome, Long Valley
For the final dome in our volcanology day back in my May Long Valley field trip, the W&M students and I took a short hike up to Obsidian Dome. The Obsidian, Glass Creek and Deadman Creek domes all...
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Recognize an early-career geoscientist for excellence
I’ve written in the past about the importance of nominating underrepresented groups for AGU awards, and it’s heartening to see that the Union is making progress on that front. For example, for Union...
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Who’s afraid of the big bad…pegmatite?
It’s been forever since I posted – more on that next month, hopefully – but I didn’t want to let Halloween pass without a spooky field photo. Here’s one from my grad school days, taken at the Macdonald...
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Taking a breather
So I’ve definitely been letting the blogging and tweeting drop off for a couple of months now, and there are a few reasons for that. The first is that I’ve taken on some new responsibilities at work...
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Improving the interview-a-scientist assignment
Why isn’t this a good way to connect your students with a scientist? Nearly every scientist who’s active on social media or blogging gets requests from students to answer questions for...
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Please contact the Western USGS Office of Communications directly at gs-do-ocap-oc-west@usgs.gov. As an employee of the USGS, I am required prefer to route all inquiries made about the current eruption...
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California is volcano country
One of the big projects I’ve been working on for the past couple of years has been assisting my SIC (Scientist-In-Charge) at the California Volcano Observatory in writing a report about California’s...
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One year
Photo courtesy of Kyle Anderson, USGS I’ve delayed writing about my involvement in last summer’s Kilauea eruption for a number of reasons. One is because I wanted to wait until the USGS has had a...
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