Geochemist and Earth System scientist @rpi ... Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY... Earth
Joined February 2021
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Something magic but also strange about drill core. There is Earth history, with all the usually reclusive bits (contacts rarely seen in the wild, recessive units) exposed out in the open, in zigzag lines… here is the contact between Passaic seds and CAMP Orange Mtn Basalt
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"Severe wintry episodes during volcanic eruptions may have brought freezing temps to tropics, which is where many extinctions of big, naked, unfeathered vertebrates seem to have occurred," says @columbiaclimate @LamontEarth's Dennis Kent. Via @sciencefocus sciencefocus.com/nature/dino…
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Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring. scim.ag/LS
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I’m very happy to announce that my very first paper is out now in GCA! In essence: The C3 plant paleo-CO2 proxy doesn’t work for Ginkgo, and we shouldn’t expect it to work for a lot of other plants. A 🧵...
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The rare superbloom that occurred in 2019 in Southern California
A superbloom is a rare desert botanical phenomenon where an exceptionally large amount of wildflowers whose seeds have lain dormant in the desert soil germinate and blossom at roughly the same time.
📷 Ryan Resatka
Even my drying oven is telling me to stop procrastinating on those @theAGU abstracts...
I try to get this message through to my students early - so true!!
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Morgan Schaller retweeted
The not so well kept secret in universities is that the whole apparatus floats on free labor from professors working relentlessly in their unpaid time, often for love of students and craft. The love is weaponized against us to hard-wire that free labor into the system.
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rage against the machine never specified what machine they were raging against but i bet it was a mass spectrometer
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"We got dinosaurs completely wrong. They are fundamentally cold-adapted animals. They are fundamentally insulated. And that was the key to their success," says Lamont geologist Paul Olsen, lead author of a new study. Via @bbcworldservice at 23:56. bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct369…
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“I think this paper will be extremely influential for years to come.” #ScienceMagArchives fcld.ly/0vevcjj
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After all these years, you’d think I’d be a pro at writing/revising papers. Reviewer comments still bite, but after letting things sit for awhile, I realize I always benefit from reviews. And it’s good to be challenged.
Wahoo! Go Justin!! Congrats
I’m incredibly honored to be selected for Academic All-America again and I am incredibly thankful for the 5 years I had with @RPITRACKFIELD! Thank you to everyone who helped me along the way! #letsgored
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The U.S. has led the world in scientific ocean drilling for over 50 years. Now we need a new drill ship as the @TheJR is approaching an unprecedented 45 year dry dock. @NSF leadership: are you ready to fund the next 50 yrs? Reasons to do this are found at iodp.org/2050-science-framew…
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Hi y’all 👋🏽 I’m Kierra Wilk, a first year planetary graduate student @BrownUniversity. I study water on the Moon and I am also a NASA Pathways intern @NASAGoddard.
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