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Joel Gombiner
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here to learn new things // geoscientist
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New, super-detailed Dry Falls interpretive map from the Washington Geological Survey. #iceagefloods #missoulafloods #channeledscablands #geomorphology washingtonstategeology.wordpress.com/2025/07/15/n...
Map of Dry Falls in Washington State's Channeled Scablands Detailed view of Dry Falls map from Washington State's Channeled Scablands
July 23, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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Let’s replace all the horse evolution displays (which misrepresent evolution as linear and goal-oriented) with chaotic tableaus of all the shapes crocodiles have been #FossilFriday
In situ prepped fossil of a dinosaur-shaped croc with a long neck and long legs Square slab containing marine croc skeleton with long legs and short arms Cast skeleton of pug-shaped plant eating croc Terrestrial croc with long legs
May 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Gotta love Rhodies
May 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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What if you laid out all the meanders of a river along a straight line, so that you can break the river into straight-ish segments and fill arbitrary spaces? This is the Purus River in Brazil; you can see how it is getting wider and the meanders are getting larger in the downstream direction
The meandering planform of the Purus River (a tributary if the Amazon), shown as white wiggles on a black background. The width of the river and the size of the meanders are increasing downstream (top to bottom, left to right).
May 23, 2025 at 1:29 AM
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Drumlinized land use, shaded by NDVI. Fields with various degrees of vegetation greenness, oriented parallel to drumlin long axes reflecting two different ice flow directions across the Green Bay Lobe, southern Wisconsin.
Agricultural land with many long narrow fields shaded various colors from green to yellow, indicating the normalized difference vegetation index of vegetation greenness. Fields are oriented north-south parallel to drumlins and ice sheet flow direction. Agricultural land with many long narrow fields shaded various colors from green to yellow, indicating the normalized difference vegetation index of vegetation greenness. Fields are oriented northeast-southwest parallel to drumlins and ice sheet flow direction.
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Sediment on the move
April 1, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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It's all about the spring flowers
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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We have reached peak daffodil
March 18, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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Spring has sprung
February 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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🚨 Paper alert! New research co-authored by #VAW member Mauro Werder introduces GraphSSeT, a model that advances #subglacial #sediment #transport analysis by simulating sediment discharge dynamics, grain size transport, and hydrology interactions.

🔗: tc.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
Modelling subglacial fluvial sediment transport with a graph-based model, Graphical Subglacial Sediment Transport (GraphSSeT)
Abstract. A quantitative understanding of how sediment discharge from subglacial fluvial systems varies in response to glaciohydrological conditions is essential for understanding marine systems aroun...
tc.copernicus.org
September 23, 2024 at 8:54 AM
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Wait what season is it?
February 6, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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💴 The world’s top financial stability watchdog warns that mounting incidents of climate disasters could spark panic in financial markets, with pullbacks in lending and dampened investor confidence. By Martin Arnold and @leeharris.bsky.social for financialtimes.com
Top financial watchdog warns climate change set to trigger market panics
Basel-based FSB says damage caused by floods, droughts and fires threatens broader pullback in lending
on.ft.com
January 25, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Wow what a sunset tonight
January 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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Loving these calm and clear winter evenings we’ve been having
January 24, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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The Bluesky algorithm is eye opening.
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January 23, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Ground source heat pumps for heating and cooling
timlatimer.bsky.social Tim Latimer @timlatimer.bsky.social · Jan 22
Exciting news to see Bedrock raise a Series A for their geothermal heating and cooling solutions. Great times ahead for geothermal, for power and heat.
commercialobserver.com/2025/01/geot...
Bedrock Energy Secures $12M Series A Raise
Geothermal heating and cooling startup for commercial buildings growing in the western U.S.
commercialobserver.com
January 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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BlueSky has 28.6 million users and is growing by 3 users per second [https://bcounter.nat.vg/].
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At these rates, BlueSky will have more users than Twitter sometime in 2030.
January 22, 2025 at 2:41 AM