Hugh Daigle
@hdaigle.bsky.social
Professor, Hildebrand Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, University of Texas at Austin. Into decarbonization, gas hydrates, nanotechnology, birds. #energysky
I won the 2-factor authentication lottery today
November 13, 2025 at 8:36 PM
I won the 2-factor authentication lottery today
Aurora borealis in Hyde Park LOL JK it’s the lights from the UT intramural fields!
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Aurora borealis in Hyde Park LOL JK it’s the lights from the UT intramural fields!
Younger son and I went up there for my aunt’s wedding. (My parents grew up in Concord/Carlisle MA). He was impressed with the old north bridge and early sunsets! Here we are at like 4 pm.
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Younger son and I went up there for my aunt’s wedding. (My parents grew up in Concord/Carlisle MA). He was impressed with the old north bridge and early sunsets! Here we are at like 4 pm.
Walden Pond, Sunday morning 11/9
November 12, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Walden Pond, Sunday morning 11/9
Impressive wait times for an odd-year election with only a bunch of constitutional amendments and a single proposition on the ballot. I think prop Q is driving turnout, but moreover I think people are just venting. I found it cathartic to vote this morning; my wife called it “hate voting.”
November 4, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Impressive wait times for an odd-year election with only a bunch of constitutional amendments and a single proposition on the ballot. I think prop Q is driving turnout, but moreover I think people are just venting. I found it cathartic to vote this morning; my wife called it “hate voting.”
My 7th grader carved his pumpkin and included “6-7” as an Easter egg. Can you find it?
October 31, 2025 at 1:09 AM
My 7th grader carved his pumpkin and included “6-7” as an Easter egg. Can you find it?
i don’t know how to cross-post this from FB but this is absolutely heartbreaking. The age of scientific ocean discovery we were brought up in is gone & will never come back. I can’t.
October 30, 2025 at 2:51 AM
i don’t know how to cross-post this from FB but this is absolutely heartbreaking. The age of scientific ocean discovery we were brought up in is gone & will never come back. I can’t.
Monarch butterflies coming through Austin
October 28, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Monarch butterflies coming through Austin
I was a little confused about Real Simple teaching us about the wind but then I saw it’s actually a conversation with @drkatemarvel.bsky.social! Worth a read. Well done.
October 25, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I was a little confused about Real Simple teaching us about the wind but then I saw it’s actually a conversation with @drkatemarvel.bsky.social! Worth a read. Well done.
Snapshotted from The Other Place… China is eating our lunch on nuclear energy. H/t @dwallacewells.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 2:25 AM
Snapshotted from The Other Place… China is eating our lunch on nuclear energy. H/t @dwallacewells.bsky.social
I hate to dunk but have these guys looked at exploration techniques from 20 years ago? AI might add value in quantifying subsurface uncertainty- and my colleagues are looking at this! - but this assessment is a joke.
October 16, 2025 at 2:19 AM
I hate to dunk but have these guys looked at exploration techniques from 20 years ago? AI might add value in quantifying subsurface uncertainty- and my colleagues are looking at this! - but this assessment is a joke.
New paper! We looked at every single permeability measurement from scientific ocean drilling boreholes so you don't have to. 71% are from the Pacific and the other oceans are jealous. Only 159 of the 4143 boreholes drilled have permeability data. (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
October 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
New paper! We looked at every single permeability measurement from scientific ocean drilling boreholes so you don't have to. 71% are from the Pacific and the other oceans are jealous. Only 159 of the 4143 boreholes drilled have permeability data. (1/2) doi.org/10.1016/j.ma...
Crepuscular rays at Mueller Lake Park
October 5, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Crepuscular rays at Mueller Lake Park
PhD student Ali Mohamed is out on the R/V Neil Armstrong right now collecting high-frequency seismic data in our study area around the Cape Fear Slide offshore North Carolina. Here he is on our 2023 Langseth cruise launching an XBT, and a photo he took of the Armstrong. Watch out for hurricanes Ali!
September 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
PhD student Ali Mohamed is out on the R/V Neil Armstrong right now collecting high-frequency seismic data in our study area around the Cape Fear Slide offshore North Carolina. Here he is on our 2023 Langseth cruise launching an XBT, and a photo he took of the Armstrong. Watch out for hurricanes Ali!
Ok Bsky friends, my other life is classical music. Almost went to conservatory - story for another day. I had a music dictionary in high school where Brahms 4 mvmt 2 was an example of some German dance, and I cannot find any record of this on the internet. Pic shows the rhythm. Am I out of my mind?
September 26, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Ok Bsky friends, my other life is classical music. Almost went to conservatory - story for another day. I had a music dictionary in high school where Brahms 4 mvmt 2 was an example of some German dance, and I cannot find any record of this on the internet. Pic shows the rhythm. Am I out of my mind?
#1 favorite Octonauts episode back in the day.
September 13, 2025 at 2:02 AM
#1 favorite Octonauts episode back in the day.
Talking Heads first identified submarine hydrogeology as a research area back in 1981. Get David Byrne as a co-PI on your next grant.
August 31, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Talking Heads first identified submarine hydrogeology as a research area back in 1981. Get David Byrne as a co-PI on your next grant.
1st class of the semester today & I showed this plot from Carey King’s book of world energy percentage by source since 1800. Note how increasing energy demand has always been met by increasing diversity of energy sources. We should let diversity expand to meet projected demand growth. #energysky
August 26, 2025 at 12:48 AM
1st class of the semester today & I showed this plot from Carey King’s book of world energy percentage by source since 1800. Note how increasing energy demand has always been met by increasing diversity of energy sources. We should let diversity expand to meet projected demand growth. #energysky
Well, there it is folks, I got an associate editor full house this morning.
August 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Well, there it is folks, I got an associate editor full house this morning.
Got this banger by @vermontgmg.bsky.social to read on vacation. Fun fact: I’m pretty sure Garrett was a year ahead of me in Winthrop House and bought a keyboard and mouse from me that I had advertised on the house listserv, around 2002ish. Looking forward to reading the atomic bomb book!
August 9, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Got this banger by @vermontgmg.bsky.social to read on vacation. Fun fact: I’m pretty sure Garrett was a year ahead of me in Winthrop House and bought a keyboard and mouse from me that I had advertised on the house listserv, around 2002ish. Looking forward to reading the atomic bomb book!
My post-dinner lecture on finding the roots of second-order polynomials went over about as you might expect with the wife and kids.
August 7, 2025 at 1:12 AM
My post-dinner lecture on finding the roots of second-order polynomials went over about as you might expect with the wife and kids.
Doesn’t look like much but this is pasta puttanesca (Chrissy Teigen’s recipe). Made this every week during COVID - I would shop Thursday bc shorter line to get into the store, make it that night. Ah memories. (1/2)
August 6, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Doesn’t look like much but this is pasta puttanesca (Chrissy Teigen’s recipe). Made this every week during COVID - I would shop Thursday bc shorter line to get into the store, make it that night. Ah memories. (1/2)
I'm writing up some carbon mgmt stuff and I found this banger of a paper from last year by Ruud Weijermars that looks at challenges in geologic carbon storage. I loved this passage bc of (1) calling out reviewers and (2) we need to move faster if this is ever going to work. doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
![Snapshotted text: "The generic workflow of Fig. 2 with the alleged long project development time was diligently followed in the Gorgon project. After discovery of the two key gas fields in 1981 and 2000, the appraisal and validation process reached completion in 2009 and the capital expenditure for project execution started. The first gas was produced in 2015. The GCS component of the project was extensively studied after year 2000 and a progress report was released in 2005 [46]. Project execution occurred in 2015, but since then ran into a series of technical problems as detailed in this review. The problems continue till the present day, which is why well-system workover is scheduled for 2025. These dates are emphasized here because some reviewers of this paper were initially incredulous that practical GCS projects could take several decades to mature prospective injection sites into proved storage capacity. In the case of the Gorgon Project we may state that the GCS portion of the field development took from 2004 to 2014 (a decade), and now has been extended by another decade. No fast development path is currently possible for large-scale GCS projects as first documented in this review." I highlighted the sentence "These dates are emphasized here because some reviewers of this paper were initially incredulous that practical GCS projects could take several decades to mature prospective injection sites into proved storage capacity."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o2qrdacsjykzk3e2wthawdci/bafkreiextdyxsxk4cc2mc3mafirbxdiwpnomjnqcvklu5q526gn3kghwy4@jpeg)
August 5, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I'm writing up some carbon mgmt stuff and I found this banger of a paper from last year by Ruud Weijermars that looks at challenges in geologic carbon storage. I loved this passage bc of (1) calling out reviewers and (2) we need to move faster if this is ever going to work. doi.org/10.1016/j.es...
Is Trump going to fire the rig count folks at BakerHughes or what
August 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
Is Trump going to fire the rig count folks at BakerHughes or what