Also special thanks to my BFF & fellow @macalestercollege.bsky.social geo grad Karen Jackson for her help in photographing these gorgeous landscapes!

Thanks to the Navajo Nation and NPS for photography permits; to the Thunderbird Lodge for the tour; financial support from the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation and Jeanne Epp Barksdale Faculty Fellowship & thanks to the Center for Digital Learning and Inquiry at Middlebury for tech support.

We used LiDAR & Scaniverse on the iPad Pro, a 360 camera, and a Canon D90 to capture 3D scans of outcrops, panoramas, images, and video for these trips.

If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.

The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.

The budget in that section for the CAREER is 229.55M and it is zeroed out, per the program solicitation they award 250M in CAREER grants. CAREER is not mentioned anywhere else in the budget. Happy to be wrong, but looks unlikely more than ~25 grants could remain.

It's just one tax cut! What can it cost, a quarter of a million scientists?

The 229M that appears next to the CAREER in that section is ~all of the 250M allotted for the program overall per the solicitation.

Where do you see CAREER appear elsewhere? I did find the second GRPF reference and am 'relieved' it's only 55%.