I've been drawing my PhD research in a comic-style ⭐⭐

Hopefully this will spark engagement with the project, which models a glacier's advance and retreat in SW Greenland over the last 1000 years 🦖

Here are the first 2 pages of the comic, enjoy!

Error of 100 Ma? Close enough 🌝 !!

When I say et al. on a single-author paper I am including the worm in my brain

🚨Job Alert 🚨

Come and work with us at the California Geological Survey!

We are looking for a geologist to join the Seismic Hazards team in our LA office.

calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/Jo…

Another thesis cake! For a friend studying shocks and turbulence. Made with black cocoa powder and a lot of isomalt. Let's just say my initial plan for this cake was one cohesive shock, but it ended up as turbulence...

Charoite in Blue
originally taken on color transparency film in 1993.
This is my only attempt at modifying the aspect ratio of my photos.
I like it...

#science #Art #geology #rocks #minerals #gemstones #crystals #schist #charoite #wallart #photography #sciart #scicomm

Quit my PhD yesterday! Pretty proud of myself. It wasn’t easy but I wasn’t sure I was going to survive another few years (literally) and I knew my baby needed his mommy alive so it’s what I had to do.

I felt like a gas station hot dog in this Houston heat today, so here is my annual PSA about medications that alter your heat tolerance

A squirrel ? Bird ? Planted us an entire field of sunflowers 🌻

After a decade of work and an exciting+challenging academic journey, I am going to be a professor! Next year I will join Oregon State University as an assistant professor of physics!!!⭐️🦫

how it started // how it’s going

Excellent tour of American Rock Salt’s Hampton Corners operation yesterday; a pretty impressive mine extracting Silurian salt…

How to be the most popular demonstrator 🌂 We got hailed off the multi-coloured rock stop this afternoon, but not before some decent sketching time Oxford Earth Sciences

So you mean trading in my good grades and trauma stories for scholarships to go to school, to get a degree and earn even more $, made me associate failing a task with financial impending doom 🥹?

When all hope was lost the clouds parted enough for me to finally take a peak of the eclipse