Egret at sunrise, Finley Wildlife Refuge in mid-Willamette Valley

So much bad news. Here's some backyard birds fighting over the bird bath on a hot day

Western Bluebirds

Snow day in Corvallis. Hummingbird grateful for our heated feeder

And a heavily processed "sunrise between North and Middle Sister".

Cold (-7 C) and clear morning in Corvallis. Sunrise in the "back yard". Three Sisters in the Cascade Mountains in the background.

We still need joy as the country goes to hell. Western bluebird in the backyard considering the bird-feed options.

And clear days in winter

Closer to home, I like bird photography

I spend a fair amount of time on models of tides around Antarctica (and the Arctic). Here's a movie of tides for Ross Ice Shelf. Grey is grounded ice, green is ice shelf, blue is ocean (often sea-ice-covered, and tan color is seabed

I spent several weeks at ISW, my first Antarctic “cruise”, as US Chief Scientist. We collected atmospheric, sea ice and ocean data for about 4 months, before ISW was recovered near 66 S by the N.B. Palmer. Gordon et al. (1993) summarized ISW in EOS (doi.org/10.1029/93EO...).

My first Antarctic fieldwork was Ice Station Weddell in 1992. This was a US-Russian ice camp in the western Weddell Sea. It was set up from the Akademik Fedorov on a multiyear drifting ice floe near 71.4 S. The camp’s track paralleled the last days of Shackleton’s Endurance in 1915.