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jd657824
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Environmental Archaeologist (PhD-MSc)
Euskotar, Educator, & Science Comms
Geocomputational Study of Adaptive Diversity in Holocene Intermountain Settlement-Subsistence.
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We had a heck of a view out in SWWYO last night as solar particles line-danced across Earth’s magnetosphere last night! ✨

#aurora #stars #wyoming #beautiful
A night sky filled with stars features a colorful aurora. A dark silhouette of hills rests at the bottom, above which a band of green light transitions into a brilliant, deep reddish-pink and magenta glow that fades into the dark purple cosmos above. A dark silhouette of hills rests beneath a star-filled night sky. Above the hills, an aurora displays a band of green light that blends upward into a vibrant reddish-pink and magenta glow, ultimately dissolving into the dark purple cosmos.
November 12, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Welcome to Moose Monday
Bull moose hanging out with a cow and calf in a field of fall grass.
October 6, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Out here in SWWYO the hazards speak for themselves. They're wildin' (…about environmental science!). 🤠 #moose #environment #science #fieldwork
Scenic pictures of the sagebrush steppe, including a sign that reads, “Moose are dangerous. Give ’em room!”
September 4, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Welcome to Tatonka Tuesday
Large herd of Bison on an endless field of spring green grass.
August 26, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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I want to connect with and highlight more trans voices working with plants, wildlife, and the natural environment so I've created a starter pack!

If this sounds like you, introduce yourself by quote-posting this skeet and I'll add you to the list 🏳️‍⚧️
June 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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I met an old soul Utah Juniper last week while completing fieldwork. It’s a living pillar that has likely endured (SWWYO) for more than a millennia (TBD). It has witnessed languages rise and fall, migrations beneath cold stars, and the hush of lives past.

#botany #QueerInStem #landscapearchaeology
I met an old soul Utah Juniper last week while completing fieldwork. It’s a living pillar that has likely stood here (in SWWYO) for beyond a millennia. It has witnessed languages rise and fall, migrations beneath cold stars, and the hush of lives past. Displays a large Utah juniper in the sagebrush steppe landscape
June 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Happy Pride Month! 🏳️‍🌈
June 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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Ain’t no party like a fieldwork party ’cause a fieldwork party don’t stop—it just gets sunburned, loses cell service, and celebrates with lukewarm Gatorade and data sheets.

#science #QueerInSTEM #BeYouInStem #paleoethnobotany #ResearchMatters
Ain’t no party like a fieldwork party ’cause a fieldwork party don’t stop—it just gets sunburned, loses cell service, and celebrates with lukewarm Gatorade and data sheets. Picture of field researcher with funny face mask among juniper grove.
May 30, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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This is the best team crossover video I've ever seen.
May 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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🌱 Regenerative agriculture is the medicine our planet desperately needs.
May 22, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Zion NP sunsets are a whole vibe.

#Zion #Nature #naturephotography #canyonviews #desertvibes #hikingadventure
Zion NP sunsets are a whole vibe. Zion canyon overlook trail at sunset.
May 13, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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Science is more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking; a way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along. Carl Sagan
May 12, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa). Opens at dusk, pollinated by hawkmoths. Leaves + roots used historically by Indigenous groups for poultices, food, and ceremonial healing. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soils of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands of SWWYO.
Tufted Evening Primrose (Oenothera caespitosa). Opens at dusk, pollinated by hawkmoths. Leaves + roots used historically by Indigenous groups for poultices, food, and ceremonial healing. Thrives in rocky, well-drained soils of sagebrush steppe and pinyon-juniper woodlands of SWWYO.
April 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Happy Badger
Badger in profile in a mixed short and tall grass field.
April 4, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Fashionably late: [Trans] visibility, for me, lives in a niche presence—showing up as a queer scholar and science communicator in underrepresented spaces. It’s the soft strength of authenticity, the echo of those who came before, and pride as shared dignity with my community and chosen family. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Fashionably late: [Trans] visibility, for me, lives in a niche presence—showing up as a queer scholar and science communicator in underrepresented spaces. It’s the soft strength of authenticity, the echo of those who came before, and pride as shared dignity with my community and chosen family. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
April 1, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Badger kit
Baby badger out in the spring grass
March 21, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Bison retain their food longer in the winter, which means they can eat less and still benefit from the heat generated by digestion.
As far as this guys concerned, that snowy bed is just as comfortable as it gets.
Bison laying down in the snow with some tall grass poking through and bare mountain side behind him.
March 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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A few hundred years ago the great plains were teaming with wildlife. In pre-Columbian times there were more pronghorn than there were buffalo. Thirty million bison and fifty million pronghorn 40 million deer and 10 million elk.
Today the numbers are quite a bit different.
March 2, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Bison should be allowed to roam free and cattle should be restricted to private land.
All abandoned barbed wire should be removed from public land.
The money today being wasted on public lands grazing should go into building wildlife overpasses and installing wildlife safe guide fencing.
A herd of bison stretching off into the distance on a snowy prairie.
February 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Abundant needle-leaf fleabane (Erigeron nematophyllus), yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis). In bloom during their typical late spring phenophase in the intermountain region of western Wyoming.
Western Wyoming Intermountain Flora. In bloom. Spring Phenophase. Abundant needle-leaf fleabane (Erigeron nematophyllus), yellow rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus), and Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis).
December 26, 2024 at 11:04 PM
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Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) in full bloom brings vitality to the Sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west.
Arrowleaf Balsamroot (Balsamorhiza sagittata) in full bloom brings vitality to the Sagebrush steppe of the intermountain west.
December 4, 2024 at 7:08 PM