Bill Minarik
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Bill Minarik
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teaches #EarthSystemScience at #McgillUniversity. Research in #geochemistry and inexpensive, accurate sensor meshes for environmental monitoring.

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A fascinating talk by Tricia Nadeau, USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, on volcanic gas monitoring at Kīlauea.

...after an eruption with fire-fountaining, researchers need snowshoes to walk across the fresh fluffy tephra, which can be 25 meters deep close to […]

[Original post on fosstodon.org]
November 21, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Reposted by Bill Minarik
Yeesh
November 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Reposted by Bill Minarik
Another time I was in a lecture theater in a modern building, where wheelchair users could sit at the top.

But the podium could only be reached down a flight of stairs, with no entrance at the bottom, which had an emergency exit that opened to the street.

Only for able-bodied lecturers !
November 20, 2025 at 8:42 AM