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Anita S Marshall
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Geology lecturer working towards better access and inclusion in STEM for ppl with disabilities. Leader of GeoSPACE Accessible field course. #Choctaw. #DisabledInSTEM.
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Driftwood Beach, Jekyll Island, Georgia. Got bit by so many flying insects but what a great sunrise!
Dark, curving branches reach across the sky and sand. A pastel sunrise with pale clouds shines in the background Close up of weathered dark branches of driftwood. The rising sun makes a star as it peeps through a hole in the branches.
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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One week ago, I got to witness an eruption at Kilauea Halemaʻumaʻu crater. The fire fountain was hundreds of feet tall, it was incredible! I am just getting around to playing with my photos from that night, so enjoy this belated look at eruption #11 in the 2025 sequence 😍🌋
close up image of lava flowing away from the base of a fire fountain, feeding into a pond of lava. The night time view makes an extreme contrast between the red lava and the black rocks. Large fire fountain shoots lava hundreds of feet in the air above a dark cone of rock. The night time view makes an extreme contrast between the red lava and the black rocks. A second smaller fire fountain opened up next to the big one several hours into the eruption. As the eruption progressed, both fountains shrunk in height and eventually stopped. This photo was 4 hours after the start of the eruption. It was over by morning.
March 5, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Heading home from a wonderful seminar visit to U of Hawaii Hilo and Manoa. Saw humpback whales, sea turtles, amazing landscapes and one of my bucket list natural wonders- a fire fountain!! Thanks Kilauea (episode 11 on 2/25/25 for the volcano nerds who want to know) 🤩
March 1, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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There are plenty of awful things happening in the world right now, but I got a nose boop from a little manatee yesterday and I'm gonna coast on that happy feeling all week 😊
A close underwater photo of a young manatee. It is gray and covered in algae and had cute little button eyes. Anita is floating on a pool noodle and wearing a snorkel with her face under the water. Beneath the water, a manatee nuzzles her snorkel mask.
January 28, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Back in Iceland aurora hunting, and the hunting has been good so far! #Iceland #aurora
Bright green bands of northern lights reach out in a v over a snow covered mountain. The bottom edges of the green curtains of light have a pattern that looks like a serrated knife.
January 7, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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I saw folks posting favorite images from 2024, so here goes! These two photos of the total eclipse were taken at a Choctaw viewing event at Wheelock Academy - the boarding school my great granny attended. There was something poetic about seeing the sun burst out from the eclipse over that place!
A total solar eclipse over an old rust water town and a tree just leafing out for spring at Wheelock Academy in Choctaw country. The eclipse breaks over the old wooden two story building at Wheelock Academy in Choctaw country. The building is whitewashed wood with boarded windows and a red roof. The sky is twilight dark from the eclipse with the sun is creating a halo around the moon with a starburst on one side.
December 30, 2024 at 2:03 AM
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We tried for sunrise photos this morning at Driftwood Beach while visiting family in coastal Georgia. Socked in with fog and we never did see the sun, but got some interesting moody shots anyway.
Vertical photo of a downed tree, bare of leaves, looking like the skeleton of some dead fantasy creature in the surf zone the beach in the fog. The trunk of a dead tree lays in the surf while the branches reach up into the foggy gray sky.
December 24, 2024 at 8:16 PM
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Take-away #2: Sustainability is rarely emphasize in field courses. But frequently-used sites are being degraded. Think about what your field location will look like in 5, 10, or 50 years from now if everyone used the site the way your group does?
A section of Petrified Forest National Park closed to visitors. The ground is completely cover in colorful petrified wood from tiny pieces to large logs. Photo from the IAGD accessible geology field trip in 2019. A photo from Crystal Forest Trail, Petrified Forest National Park. Compared to the first image, there is significantly less petrified wood due to many years of people removing rocks.
December 21, 2024 at 10:32 PM
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While the volcanologist in me was a little disappointed to not red rivers of lava, this eruption was very close to The edge of a town (Grindavik) and I'm sure the folks that live there are relieved to see this eruption fizzle out!
View of the fresh lava field, with Grindavik marked in the background, not far from the edge of the cooling lava flow.
December 21, 2023 at 10:21 PM
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Activity has really diminished, but I got to see rock that are 0 days old and still molten in places! Very cool 🌋
Tiny spots of molten orange peel out from black steaming rock The 4km long fissure has consolidated to this one vent now. Landscape view of the eruption site. Hot black rock surrounded by snow covered mountains
December 21, 2023 at 10:19 PM
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I'm scared of flying but I put on my big girl pants and tooka helicopter ride to the eruption site! Here's me trying (unsuccessfully) to look just after takeoff 😅
Anita making an "OMG what have I done" face just after takeoff
December 21, 2023 at 10:14 PM