Rachel Headley (she/her)
@geomorphrachel.bsky.social
Professor of glaciers, geomorphology, & environmental science; living & biking in the Northwest; being depressed about climate change. Come for the pictures of rivers, stay for the cats and bikes
Of all the impacts of government shutdowns, I know my classes are minor, but is anyone aware of links to energy infrastructure maps like the EIA Atlas, which apparently isn't accessible right now?
October 29, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Of all the impacts of government shutdowns, I know my classes are minor, but is anyone aware of links to energy infrastructure maps like the EIA Atlas, which apparently isn't accessible right now?
I just did my first in class exams in over 5 years (mainly for LLM reasons), and I really did not anticipate how much better and well thought-out their responses are then when I would run a similar test on our LMS.
October 3, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I just did my first in class exams in over 5 years (mainly for LLM reasons), and I really did not anticipate how much better and well thought-out their responses are then when I would run a similar test on our LMS.
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September 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Submitting a microplastics proposal today. Hopefully some funders somewhere in the US still care about pollution.
September 30, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Submitting a microplastics proposal today. Hopefully some funders somewhere in the US still care about pollution.
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🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
September 23, 2025 at 6:18 PM
🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us
Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏
This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.
Three weeks into the fall semester with newly outsourced IT at my campus; its going as a lot of us expected. Will the GIS license problem be solved by the spring semester so I can actually teach my GIS class? We have the license! I just don't have access to change the location for the application.
September 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Three weeks into the fall semester with newly outsourced IT at my campus; its going as a lot of us expected. Will the GIS license problem be solved by the spring semester so I can actually teach my GIS class? We have the license! I just don't have access to change the location for the application.
I'm going to try interacting on here again, though, like probably everyone else, my ability to focus is completely shattered.
September 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I'm going to try interacting on here again, though, like probably everyone else, my ability to focus is completely shattered.
Got an ftir spectrometer and got it to successfully identify ldpe as ldpe. Am I a chemist now?
June 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Got an ftir spectrometer and got it to successfully identify ldpe as ldpe. Am I a chemist now?
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Collapse of the Vallunaraju Glacier front (~5060 m asl, Cordillera Blanca, PER) yesterday! 😱🌊
🎥 Jose Forero
www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/
🎥 Jose Forero
www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/
April 16, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Collapse of the Vallunaraju Glacier front (~5060 m asl, Cordillera Blanca, PER) yesterday! 😱🌊
🎥 Jose Forero
www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/
🎥 Jose Forero
www.instagram.com/p/DIaDPQmNuYF/
Who knows if it will go anywhere with all the federal grant chaos, but I'm excited to potentially do some preliminary glacial research again this summer. (Also I do still exist on this platform, I promise)
April 12, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Who knows if it will go anywhere with all the federal grant chaos, but I'm excited to potentially do some preliminary glacial research again this summer. (Also I do still exist on this platform, I promise)
In some needed good news, I just got my tenure board-approved. (I had it at my old institution but academic is weird and you can't always get hired with it)
March 7, 2025 at 11:54 PM
In some needed good news, I just got my tenure board-approved. (I had it at my old institution but academic is weird and you can't always get hired with it)
I think the only thing keeping me grounded and not completely devastated right now is interacting with idealistic college students all the time.
February 20, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I think the only thing keeping me grounded and not completely devastated right now is interacting with idealistic college students all the time.
I'm taking all the little victories I can get right now, so hurray for all my GIS students successfully making maps on day 2 of class.
February 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm taking all the little victories I can get right now, so hurray for all my GIS students successfully making maps on day 2 of class.
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Tagging for the science/geo feeds since the war on science seems to only have just begun 🧪⚒️
FYI At 4:30 ET today, @aclu.org is hosting a town hall about their response to the administration's attacks on civil liberties.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwN...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcwN...
ACLU Town Hall: Fighting Trump’s First Attacks
YouTube video by ACLU
www.youtube.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Tagging for the science/geo feeds since the war on science seems to only have just begun 🧪⚒️
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Tell the AGU what all of Donald Trump's illegal executive orders are doing to science and to scientists, staff, and students.
We are alarmed by the Administration’s actions to freeze science funding and eliminate DEI efforts and climate change initiatives, which go against AGU’s mission and harms our members. We must unite to address these changes, beginning by hearing from you.
Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e
Read more: https://buff.ly/4hm8r4e
February 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Tell the AGU what all of Donald Trump's illegal executive orders are doing to science and to scientists, staff, and students.
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That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪
new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...
new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...
February 2, 2025 at 2:14 PM
That NSF is combing through grants for keywords like gender, equity, scientific literacy, etc, in order to cancel those grants, is frustrating when you consider that Broader Impacts ARE A REQUIREMENT OF GETTING THE GRANT. In case you're not familiar, here are examples 🧪
new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...
new.nsf.gov/funding/lear...
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Relentless and grim. It’s increasingly hard to see where any positives are going to arise in the next few months. Years, even.
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites. The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.
USDA ordered to scrub climate change from websites
The directive could affect information across dozens of programs including climate-smart agriculture initiatives.
www.politico.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Relentless and grim. It’s increasingly hard to see where any positives are going to arise in the next few months. Years, even.
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One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles.
EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
Earthquake warning system among projects threatened by NSF funding freeze
Small nonprofit that helps manage network could soon run out of money
www.science.org
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
One impact of the NSF freeze: They fund the small nonprofit, EarthScope, that manages seismic and GPS stations used worldwide to detect and warn of earthquakes and navigate autonomous vehicles.
EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
EarthScope can maybe make payroll this week. A prolonged freeze could see stations fail.
My 8-year-old's hand drawn 'meme' operating with more sense than we'll ever see in the next 4 years.
January 30, 2025 at 10:58 PM
My 8-year-old's hand drawn 'meme' operating with more sense than we'll ever see in the next 4 years.
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Schrödinger’s funding freeze.
January 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Schrödinger’s funding freeze.
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The US just revoked an executive order aimed at making EV sales 50% by 2030. “The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said.
But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap.
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap.
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
January 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
The US just revoked an executive order aimed at making EV sales 50% by 2030. “The US will not sabotage our own industries while China pollutes with impunity,” Trump said.
But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap.
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
But China is already stomping the US in EV sales. This decision will widen the gap.
Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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My new post on The Climate Brink: LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke. It talks about air pollution from wildfires, the connection to climate change, and Table 12.12 from the last IPCC report.
www.theclimatebrink....
www.theclimatebrink....
LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke
From vaporized bicycles to political extortion: The complex impacts of urban wildfire
www.theclimatebrink.com
January 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
My new post on The Climate Brink: LA fire's toxic legacy: When wildfires turn cities into smoke. It talks about air pollution from wildfires, the connection to climate change, and Table 12.12 from the last IPCC report.
www.theclimatebrink....
www.theclimatebrink....
Went night skiing with my family and got ditched by the 8 year old so he could ski black diamonds and tree terrain while I hang on the greens.
January 16, 2025 at 5:40 AM
Went night skiing with my family and got ditched by the 8 year old so he could ski black diamonds and tree terrain while I hang on the greens.
A sign of the times is reading texts/posts from friends dealing with major infrastructural issues due to the east coast snow storms and friends dealing with the devastation of the CA fires.
January 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
A sign of the times is reading texts/posts from friends dealing with major infrastructural issues due to the east coast snow storms and friends dealing with the devastation of the CA fires.
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From the inimitable @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
"Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The chronicle of a fire foretold | Rebecca Solnit
The current fires in Los Angeles are reminders of the costs of forgetting
www.theguardian.com
January 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
From the inimitable @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social:
"Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Catastrophic fire erases what was there before. So does forgetting. Memory is a resource for facing the future; it’s equipment for imagining, planning, preparing. Forgetting creates terrible vulnerabilities"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...