In eigener Sache: Wir haben jetzt schon 200 Follower*innen hier auf Mastodon. Schön, dass Ihr da seid 🙏🙂 Wir freuen uns weiterhin auf den Austausch hier im #Fediverse.
Hey, this article isn't terrible! I was going to be snarky, with "everyone knows this [headline]." 🙄 But everyone doesn't know this. People with some physics and geology know about Earth's lumpy gravity.
A question for #geology mastodon: After a visit to the Derwent Pencil Museum this weekend as the nearest the group had to a geologist I was asked why do we get #graphite in the Lake District instead of #diamond?
The best I could come up with was that the volcanoes in the Lakes were smaller and cooler (?) than the ones in say S. Africa.
Become my colleague at the University of Groningen! 🌏👽🔭🖥️
The Kapteyn Astronomical Institute is searching for two tenure-track assistant professors. The exoplanet position is focused on rocky/low-mass exoplanet atmospheres, from either an observational or theoretical perspective. Please share! 🤗
ICYMI: The abstract submission period for the 42nd Annual Technical Conference of the National Association of Black Geoscientists is open through August 1st. #NABG42
Happy birthday to Danish #seismologist Inge Lehmann (1888 – 1993) who demonstrated that the Earth's core is not a single molten sphere, but contained an inner solid core, in ‘36. She was a pioneer #womanInScience, a brilliant seismologist & lived to be 105.
As she first postulated, the #earth has roughly 3 equal concentric sections: mantle, liquid outer core & solid inner core.
This looks like a step forward in the science of earthquake forecasting.
A team from Sandia National Laboratories have studied the release of noble gases caused by induced underground explosions. Their detection could be one day use to monitor earthquakes or explosions.
It is nice tradition to introduce yourself on #Mastodon. I am a geoscientist, studied #music, #geophysics, and #geology, and have a doctoral degree in #paleoceanography. My research is on the influence of climate in #Africa on human evolution using time series analysis methods. I learned #Fortran77 in the 1980s, have been using #MATLAB since 1992, and recently #Python - and have written several textbooks on data analysis in the earth sciences. I look forward to make new connections with you!
Hi! I'm a disaster researcher, TV & movie science consultant, field geophysicist , & freelance science communicator. I'm usually somewhere along the West Coast of North America.
I run #YouFoundARock & #RockCheck. I’m the admin of #MinCup, and give tasting notes on rocks sorted into Lick & Do Not Lick lists.