Kerry Leith
@stressdriven.bsky.social
Geoscientist. Alpine addict. Geomorphology, rivers, landslides, 🚴. Earth Sciences New Zealand. Views are my own.
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Kerry Leith
@stressdriven.bsky.social
· Nov 25
I made a starter pack for past and present researchers here at GNS Science. Let's see who else is hiding out there 🏔🌋🏞
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Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
January 16, 2026 at 6:01 AM
Our paper about phreatic explosions at Whakaari is the featured paper on the Communications Earth & Environment homepage! 🌋
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Check out our open-access paper here 👇
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
January 5, 2026 at 7:36 AM
A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
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Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph!
An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x
An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x
December 24, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Like many kiwis with grownup kids, I'm in Australia today! So, Happy Christmas to everyone who understands this graph!
An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x
An explanation / Christmas message in the ALT text x
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🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari Volcano driven by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input - Communications Earth & Environment
Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates, according to 3-dimensional numerical modelling of volcanic hydrothermal systems.
www.nature.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
🌋Phreatic eruptions at Whakaari volcano are influenced by subsurface pressurisation magnitudes and timescales, which in turn are significantly influenced by hydrothermal mineralisation and magmatic gas input rates.
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
👉Read more here:
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Consider submitting your #EGU26 abstract in the broad theme of #Landslides to our session of #NH3.6. We are among the continuous major landslide sessions during the meeting, and will continuously try to give more opportunities to #ECS researchers.
🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.
🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Consider submitting your #EGU26 abstract in the broad theme of #Landslides to our session of #NH3.6. We are among the continuous major landslide sessions during the meeting, and will continuously try to give more opportunities to #ECS researchers.
🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.
🧐 AI is good in preparing infographics by the way.
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📢 Luis Arevalo fears his grandson will never be able to drink water straight from the tap because of the nitrate in the local water supply.
👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
What's really going on with Canterbury's water
www.rnz.co.nz
December 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
📢 Luis Arevalo fears his grandson will never be able to drink water straight from the tap because of the nitrate in the local water supply.
👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
👉 Bot to check Bluesky account creation dates
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My dad texted me that he ran into a now-retired professor in the department today, one of my favorite instructors. I can't stop thinking about how this must feel for someone like that, seeing the community you spent a whole career building get dissolved by administrators using faulty data.
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 13, 2025 at 2:51 AM
My dad texted me that he ran into a now-retired professor in the department today, one of my favorite instructors. I can't stop thinking about how this must feel for someone like that, seeing the community you spent a whole career building get dissolved by administrators using faulty data.
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🚨 Scholarship alert! 🚨 Join us on a masters scholarship to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...
Masters scholarship on the impacts of extreme climate events
Applications are invited for a masters scholarship at the University of Canterbury on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities.
www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz
December 11, 2025 at 6:03 PM
🚨 Scholarship alert! 🚨 Join us on a masters scholarship to work on the impacts of extreme climate events for coastal systems and communities → www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/master...
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Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
BREAKING: ‘This hurts’: UNL eliminates 4 programs despite faculty, student pleas
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln eliminates the Earth and atmospheric sciences 8-0, educational administration 7-1, statistics 7-1, textiles, merchandising and fashion design 7-1 programs.
www.dailynebraskan.com
December 6, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
I never imagined this could be the case, but I identify with many of these sentiments. The until very recently "no. 8 wire, fix anything, she'll be right" country has made so many journalists redundant we now outsource local reporting to a foreign newspaper.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘I love my country. I don’t want to leave’: readers reflect on the exodus from New Zealand
As people continue to move away in record numbers, readers share their reasons for leaving and contemplate life in New Zealand
www.theguardian.com
December 2, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I never imagined this could be the case, but I identify with many of these sentiments. The until very recently "no. 8 wire, fix anything, she'll be right" country has made so many journalists redundant we now outsource local reporting to a foreign newspaper.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
November 21, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It still feels so unreal! Yesterday, we were awarded the "Nobel Prize" of Supercomputing, the ACM Gordon Bell Prize at #SC25 for our paper “Real-Time Bayesian Inference at Extreme Scale: A Digital Twin for Tsunami Early Warning Applied to the Cascadia Subduction Zone”: dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
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Expressions of Interest close on Friday! Make sure you get your applications in to join our PhD training course. A great way to meet other new PhD students in the field of geomorphology 🌍❄️💧🌊🌴
📣 @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social Windsor Workshop PhD Training 2025: Expressions of Interest Open!
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
Join other new geomorphology PhDs from European HE institutions for training & networking at Windsor, UK (1–4 Dec 2025).
£175 for BSG members (incl. meals & stay).
👉 www.geomorphology.org.uk/windsor-work...
November 19, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Expressions of Interest close on Friday! Make sure you get your applications in to join our PhD training course. A great way to meet other new PhD students in the field of geomorphology 🌍❄️💧🌊🌴
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Water causes #rock to shift on the #Matterhorn: #SLF research on the Matterhorn shows how meltwater in #permafrost can lead to rock slope instability – a consequence of #climatechange.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate...
📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate...
📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF
November 12, 2025 at 8:02 AM
Water causes #rock to shift on the #Matterhorn: #SLF research on the Matterhorn shows how meltwater in #permafrost can lead to rock slope instability – a consequence of #climatechange.
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate...
📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF
More: www.slf.ch/en/news/wate...
📷️ Samuel Weber / SLF
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📢We are hiring!
🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application:
1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae...
2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9...
#geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR
🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application:
1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae...
2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9...
#geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR
November 3, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📢We are hiring!
🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application:
1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae...
2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9...
#geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR
🌍 We currently have two open positions in #geoinformatics and #remotesensing - from fundamental PhD research to applied data science work. Details & application:
1.) karriere.plus.ac.at/en/jobs/9dae...
2.) karriere.plus.ac.at/de/jobs/d3a9...
#geomorphology #earthobservation #InSAR
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On 31 October 2025, a landslide occurred at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, triggered by heavy rainfall at about 2 am. Reports indicate that at least 22 people were killed. This image, from Facebook, suggests that it occurred in a steep gully.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
October 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
On 31 October 2025, a landslide occurred at Kukas in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea, triggered by heavy rainfall at about 2 am. Reports indicate that at least 22 people were killed. This image, from Facebook, suggests that it occurred in a steep gully.
eos.org/thelandslide...
eos.org/thelandslide...
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UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
October 28, 2025 at 4:10 PM
UTTERLY SURREAL LOW ANGLE GLACIER SLIDE!! 😮😱
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
On Saturday at 11:00 am, a 2 km-long, 25 m-high, and 150-200 m in width section detached off the Ismoil Somoni Glacier (Tajikistan) and slid down the gorge! 🧊🌊
asiaplustj.info/en/node/354309
📽️ via @volcaholic1
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![Comic. [two connected spacecraft hovering in space above the Earth] Houston, the view is superb. We can see the continents spread out below us, right where they’ve been since the Earth formed. [caption] I still can’t believe we developed spaceflight before we figured out that the continents moved.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreicp2ka5asjgkmgfdfj33vnjb5bbvk3vnyao6ju5kipxcdc23pqasm@jpeg)
October 27, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
New Zealand guts climate policy it bragged about on the world stage
The law was once held up internationally as a model of transparency. The government just weakened it.
www.rnz.co.nz
October 23, 2025 at 7:01 AM
You know, there’s this pervasive view that people don’t care about climate change / are bored of it / find it overwhelming but I wrote this story this week and social media went crazy over it. People care!!!! They really care are they need a way to channel it www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...
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CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
October 22, 2025 at 11:43 PM
CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
We all know that squashing a rock makes it stiffer, but did you know water makes it softer?
We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet?
TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet?
TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 AM
We all know that squashing a rock makes it stiffer, but did you know water makes it softer?
We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet?
TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
We wondered what happens underground, where rock is both squashed AND wet?
TLDR: moisture dominates sandstone to >400m depth, and granite to >1000m depth!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
October 9, 2025 at 5:08 PM
How over- and underrepresented are different causes of death in the media?
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
Another way to visualize this data is to measure how over- or underrepresented each cause is.
To do this, we calculate the ratio between a cause’s share of deaths and its share of news articles.
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An example of how *not* to do a research findings article headline. By using "Scientists finally reveal", it sounds like scientists were holding back from telling the public something. I can't think of anything further from the truth.
Scientists Finally Reveal Biological Basis of Long COVID Brain Fog
Researchers employed a specialized brain imaging technique to identify a potential biomarker and therapeutic target for Long COVID. More than four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, scien...
scitechdaily.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:36 AM
An example of how *not* to do a research findings article headline. By using "Scientists finally reveal", it sounds like scientists were holding back from telling the public something. I can't think of anything further from the truth.
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If you are attending the 11th IGC Conference in February 2026. Come along on the mid-conference Glacial Geomorphology fieldtrip to the Waimakariri to see landscapes like this...
#geomorphology #NewZealand #Christchurch #geoscience #geology #geography #Aotearoa
#geomorphology #NewZealand #Christchurch #geoscience #geology #geography #Aotearoa
September 28, 2025 at 8:47 AM
If you are attending the 11th IGC Conference in February 2026. Come along on the mid-conference Glacial Geomorphology fieldtrip to the Waimakariri to see landscapes like this...
#geomorphology #NewZealand #Christchurch #geoscience #geology #geography #Aotearoa
#geomorphology #NewZealand #Christchurch #geoscience #geology #geography #Aotearoa
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I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social.
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋
September 19, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I'm giving social media a go after a hiatus, so hi! I'm a Kiwi volcanologist working on Ngāuruhoe (Mt Doom) in NZ, the 2021 La Palma/Tajogaite eruption impacts, seafloor geologic hazards, & collaborate w. @geotenerife.bsky.social.
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋
More on my work here: janinekrippner.weebly.com
Nice to meet you❤️🌋
🚨A reminder that the submission deadline for abstracts to the '8th International Conference on Rock Physics' closes tomorrow (20th September)! 🚨
Feb 22 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
www.8iwrp.auckland.ac.nz/abstract-sub...
Feb 22 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
www.8iwrp.auckland.ac.nz/abstract-sub...
September 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
🚨A reminder that the submission deadline for abstracts to the '8th International Conference on Rock Physics' closes tomorrow (20th September)! 🚨
Feb 22 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
www.8iwrp.auckland.ac.nz/abstract-sub...
Feb 22 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
www.8iwrp.auckland.ac.nz/abstract-sub...