New favorite German word I’ve learned, “verschlimmbessert”—to make something worse with so-called improvements. So many examples in academia!

If you plot dFe vs dAl from the GEOTRACES IDP, you get a horse.

My snow boots were literally dusty

Snowvannah

Also dusty:

We got a paper published! (And I already found some problems with it!) If you want to figure out how much dust MERRA-2--an atmospheric reanalysis product--thinks was over your study site, you can use the tools linked in the article or on my GitHub: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
github.com/capecodnativ...

Firing up my bsky account with some content (con-quinnt?) re-posted from another app. Here's to a future filled with more authentic interactions.