Professor, Colorado School of Mines: Environmental Microbiology; Geobiology; Life in Extremes; Environmental Policy; Climate Change. ORCiD: 0000-0002-4664-7438
https://people.mines.edu/jspear/
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A Comprehensive Framework for Assessing Terrestrial Analogue Field Sites for Ocean Worlds - Stern - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
What say you Congress?
www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Art is Science.
Not a bad afternoon with scanning electron microscopy @mblscience.bsky.social with Microbial Diversity!
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See you in Woods Hole! mbl.edu/courses
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…stay tuned for publications….
Apparently CBS Paramount does not, enhancing our decline.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
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(and yes, this is what this course has ‘diversity’ in the title…)
Good Vibrations.
etc., etc., etc….
Brian Wilson dented the universe.
Passed. Sad. 😅 😎
In today’s world, my job, your job, is to embrace, and share, the vibe.
The world needs us—to do that.
Be the Beach Boy.
Make A Dent.🙏
Me too.
Don’t follow the insanity of American air pollution rollbacks.
Step up and lead ‘cause we ain’t.
Trump’s EPA announces major rollbacks to power plant pollution limits - The Guardian
See what you think!
Microbial ecology of serpentinite-hosted ecosystems url:https://academic.oup.com/ismej/article/19/1/wraf029/8019724
People: your family; your co-workers; your neighbors; those encountered on your travels, etc.
Then, there is fascism, particularly in leadership, that ruins it all.
The U.S. is exporting citizens, naturalized, green card holders, etc.
Not good.
Stand up!
Ph.D. work on wildland-urban interface wildfire and the mobilization of metals—an important story of our climate-changing (there, I wrote it) times.