I spent the better part of a 5 hour drive talking with a friend yesterday and after I missed or didn’t understand what felt like 100 cultural references, he said, “Ethan, when you finish your PhD, there’s a whole wide world waiting out there for you”. #livingunderarock #phdlife

Want to save 70 million birds a year? 🦉🦢🦆🦅🕊️ Build more wind farms Fossil fuel generation kills 17 time more birds per gigawatt-hour than wind energy reneweconomy.com.au/want-to-save-7…

There’s nothing like a window seat on a flight over the American west to 1) make me appreciate being a geologist and 2) get me excited to move back out west at the end of the summer.

In addition to my geological research and my independent film projects, I study how film (and art writ large) can be used to enhance introductory geoscience curricula. #art #science #education

I take issue with “boiling oceans”. That’s certainly exaggerated, but this thread, and certainly this event, need a global audience. To prioritize economic growth over the sharing of knowledge, let alone human welfare, absurd to say the least. Also love the LoTRs analogy.

Fascinating thread 😮

Linked is the first part of a project called Death of a Glacier, which seeks to engage with the global decline of glaciers through the lenses of both art and science.  #climatechange #artandscience #geoscience #classicalmusic #iceland #UW whisperingrivermedia.com/deathofaglacier