Biologist. Explorer. Storyteller. Views are my own.
Boulder, CO
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This explanatory mini documentary by Mark Fairbrother blows the ice lid off our team’s cryoconite hole research, revealing our diverse activities and findings during three seasons in Antarctica.
Dedicated to Diana Nemergut (1974-2015)
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I had the great fortune to meet Priyanga even I was a grad student and she visited to give a seminar. She inspired me with her ground breaking research, her kindness and generosity, and her enthusiasm and sense of wonder and curiosity. What UCLA is doing is unconscionable
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This is great
My commentary on attracting the next generation of scientists
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Nick & I have been making peeps dioramas for Easter the last few years... first they skied, then rafted, then mountain biked. This year they scuba dived! #peepshow #peeps #easter #scubadiving
(Travel schedules and tag teaming the peep prep made the post a week late)
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What YOU can do to help Antarctica.
Here are *suggestions* of things YOU can do to help. Please feel free to add your own.
Let’s start with the easy ones.
A thread. 🧵
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If you're in the Boulder area on May 10th, please join us in celebrating @sarahecrump's scientific legacy. Sarah was a brilliant and creative Arctic scientist whose career was cut far too short by cancer.
More info on the Sarah C. Graduate Fellowship: colorado.edu/instaar/resourc…
ALT Please join us in celebrating Sarah Crump's scientific legacy. May 10th, 2023 10am-12pm. SEEC Room 120, 4001 Discovery Drive Boulder, Colorado.
It's been almost 20 years since I last scuba dived so I went through beginner training again - this time with NAUI rather than PADI, but still did my open water dive at Homestead Crater again!
Very cool to be a part of this collaboration - check it out!
Our paper "Astrovirology: how viruses enhance our understanding of life in the Universe" is published & open access. @XtremeVirusProf @pacificsummer @Jeffinerca @Kaelberviridae @KathrynBywaters @simroux_virus @PlanetSkyentist @astrobiology @NASAAstrobio doi.org/10.1017/S14735504230…
Congrats to such a great team for such an exciting mission!
It has been a very exciting day in Houston as @NASA & @csa_asc announced the four astronauts who will venture around the Moon. The crew assignments are: Commander @astro_reid, Pilot @AstroVicGlover, Mission Specialist 1 @Astro_Christina, and Mission Specialist 2 @Astro_Jeremy.
Fun to see research out from CU Boulder colleagues out on the DNA signatures in samples collected high on Mt Everest! I remember those samples arriving in the lab
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And fun to hear it joked about on @waitwait 🙃
Fun to watch after re-doing my scuba certification last week!
This comes a few decades (!) after my first cert, haven't dived in quite a while, so I started over. The NAUI course thru CU turns out to be very rigorous for beginner cert, great safety training and fun challenges
Grab your swimsuit and dive into a new episode of Surprisingly STEM! @NASA dive specialist, Arielle Valdez, shares her story of how she went from diving shipwrecks across the world to training @NASA_Astronauts on an underwater mockup of the @Space_Station: youtu.be/ZJY4nvjDCfs
This is so great! Space, fluid dynamic principles in design, and coffee! ☕🛰️
Drinking coffee in space has never been the same earth-like pleasure because astronauts have to sip it with a bag & a straw, so Don Pettit designed the Capillary Cup, which uses the principle of capillary channel flow
[read more: buff.ly/3JHGggi]
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Know anyone doing natural history research in western North America that could use a few thousand dollars toward a project? scholarsarchive.byu.edu/wnan…
Are you an ecologist curious what a career might look like if not running an academic research lab? Attend a free panel discussion next Weds to learn more about roles in sustainability, instruction, or ag/biotech R&D! esa.zoom.us/webinar/register…
These #altac panels are brought to you by @ESA_EarlyCareer, the #EarlyCareer #Ecologists section of @ESA_org! But they may be helpful to people at any stage of school or later in their career.
Girls* (& nonbinary) 16-18 y/o next summer have 3 more days (until Feb 2) to submit applications to Girls* On Rock and other Inspiring Girls* Expeditions for FREE two-week backcountry expeditions for science, art, leadership, and adventure in July! inspiringgirls.org/apply
