Beautiful but cold morning in the San Juan Islands

Romans invade Britain. Romans build Hadrian’s Wall. Romans leave and ask Barbarians to pay for it.

New paper on the #DetritalZircon provenance of the #NanaimoBasin looking at local forearc dynamics. This paper builds on great work by Rebecca Englert. Steve Hubbard kept #BajaBC speculation to a minimum, while William Matthews always wants more. doi.org/10.1130/L1138.1

Jimmy and Me pulling our camp across the lake #Camping #KananaskisCountry

He used to fit on my arm, now he’s wearing my boots, my old backpack and helping me pull the pulk! #Camping #KananaskisCountry #Kids

It has been a while since I did mineral separation! Getting a last sample ready to build on great work rdcu.be/b1UBz in the lower Nanaimo Group by collaborators SFU - Earth Sciences Shahin Dashtgard

Great ski with the family up to Rockbound Lake #Banff #Alberta #ski

Epic ski tour in Paradise Valley today. Love backcountry #ski in #Banff!

Glad we could be involved! Congrats!

Whenever SpaceX mentions Bob and Doug I think they’re launching these hosers into space!

Well done Steve Hubbard on you promotion!

Shoutout for a new paper online today: Backstripping a recently established high-resolution sequence stratigraphic construction of the Late-K Gallup system to estimate eustatic sea-level changes and their control mechanisms

Why do briefings with Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦 never start on time? What could be more important?

Excited to share that our study on the Rocky Mountain Trench was published in Tectonics. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20… Thank you to my students Kelley Fraser and Ryan Grieco, and @ScottJess1 and Hersh Gilbert @UofC_Science #Geology #rockymountains

Did you know … that when the Laurentide Ice Sheet covered Canada only 22,000 yrs ago melted, stranded giant blocks of ice left behind were 100’s of metres to perhaps a kilometre thick. That is why Elk Island National Park looks like it does. buff.ly/2EtuyCu

On November 6 and 7, William Matthews William Matthews and I teach two online short courses on geo-and thermochronology methods and application. Registration is now open at the gacmac2021.ca/workshops-and-… You do not need to register for the conference to attend the short course.

Another Nanaimo session....this time with Calgary geologist Will Matthews. Join us this weekend - both Sat and Sun at 9:00 am Pacific! Baja BC A to Z livestreams on YouTube.