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On this #FieldworkFriday here's a look at a Dust^2 team as they near the end of a day in the field.

Take a deeper trip into the field with Cluster member Jeff Munroe in our video series called The Collectors Tour: https://bit.ly/CollectorsTourPlaylist

#science #EarthScience #research #geology

In this stop along the Collectors Tour Jeff answers the question: what happens when it snows?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6JL3eB_Cic&list=PLELOz7SwUyhPEQvpNAuo9cK_rZMPiNvV4&index=14&t=11s

#science #EarthScience #geology #FieldworkFriday

In October, 2024 Jeff Munroe (Middlebury College) spent nearly three weeks traveling to 20 mineral dust collectors deployed on mountain summits in the southwestern United States for the DUST^2 Project, part of the Critical Zone Collaborative Network. This short film documents the majestic landscapes in which the collectors are located, and provides a sense of what it’s like to conduct such a long stretch of solo fieldwork.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkjq-CUR188

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Standing on top of the remnants of a Mississippian barrier island. These days, it's a thin interval of sandstone sandwiched between thick successions of limestone, on the side of a mountain, in north Alabama.
#geology #fieldwork #fieldworkfriday #FieldPhoto

an open forest with little brush and mostly moss and lichen on sandstone.

I really love exploring my current mapping area. Walking through the canebrakes It's easy to imagine the environment is pristine and just like it was hundreds of years ago. Also there has been bedrock exposure in almost every creek I've investigated, which is a definite plus.
#geology #fieldworkfriday #nativeplants #nature

standing on the edge of a small creek, less than 2 meters wide. the forest is relatively open, filled with medium sized trees and filled in with 5 foot tall native cane, a type of bamboo. the creek has bedrock cropping out

On this #FieldworkFriday stop by Dust 18 and see what's happening.

Hint: it's collecting dust samples.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8vJ-qth5K4

Find out more about how all the members of the Dust Cluster are working together to study the source-to-sink movement of dust across the surface of the Earth in this October 2024 review paper: https://bit.ly/3NNsawn

#CriticalZone #EarthScience #research #geology

Throwback to 2010: a joint paleoseismology and archaeology project in Kamchatka, Russia. Logistically, it was such a crazy, wonderful experience. We hired a small boat to very slowly tow a barge with a вездеход ("go-everywhere-mobile") across a large brackish lake so we could continue on to our field site #fieldworkfriday #kamchatka #geology #archaeology #boat #dogswithjobs

First field dog of 2025

#fieldworkfriday #geology #Dogs #dogsofmastodon

a black mutt with gray on her paws and face. her left eye is blue and right is brown. she is standing on her hand legs with front paws on my safety vest. her chin is in my hand as I scratch

A great day for getting some strikes and dips.

#fieldworkfriday #geology

a small stream flowing on bedrock with steep river banks covered in liverworts and river cane, in the middle of a bare hardwood forest.

#FieldworkFriday last week I visited the exciting Early Neolithic site Eilsleben in 🇩🇪 where the university of Halle is excavating. In the '80s they dug here and found the remains of farmhouses, animals, humans, and even a mask made from a human skull 😬

The Linear Pottery culture, dated to ca 5500-4800 BCE, which this site belongs to, seem pretty macabre to us today. But oh so cool too! I'm very excited to be collaborating on this project in the years to come 🤩

Screenshot of a post on X that says 'Archaeological excavation in the Early Neolithic Eilsleben, Germany: what will we possibly find inside of this vessel? 😍 Stay tuned' along with a photo of students in the field and a photo of a ceramic vessel in the ground

These are lava tubes, the caves/channels sometimes left behind after lava ceases to flow from a volcanic eruption. Our field work this week is working on the question "how can we best detect subsurface lava tubes from the surface, preferably by automated methods?"

Why do we care? Imagine you are trying to establish a base on, say, the moon. What better way to protect your Lunatics from radiation, micrometeorites, and temperature swings than underground?

#FieldworkFriday #Science #Geophysics

The entrance (a collapsed section) to Skull Cave in Lava Beds National Monument. A researcher on the left is photographing the entrance and the group of researchers further down the trail into the lava tube.

The entrance to Ship Cave, a lava tube in Lava Beds National Monument. A group of four researchers can be seen down in the lava tube.

Here is a near perfect example of how sometimes rotting logs can be mistaken at a distance for an outcrop. On the left is a quartz rich graphite + garnet schist. On the right is a tree stump that is submerged under a lake for 2/3rds of the year.

#geology #fieldworkfriday #FridayFieldPhoto #rocks

brownish gray foliated rocks stick up along a shoreline. a gnarled and furrowed tree stump sticks up out of a Crack in the rocks.

I highly recommend geologic mapping from a boat. It beats the hell out of tramping up and down mountains. Pic description for details. #geology #fieldworkfriday #fieldwork #Alabama #rocks

View from a boat of a rock outcrop that is about 2 meters high above the water. water levels are low in the winter, exposing fresh rock. the foliation dips steeply from left to right. there is a light colored package in the center left that is a biotite gneiss. the darker and more thinly foliated package to the right of it is graphite schist. and the lighter package to the far right is a quartz rich schist with chlorite.

It's always fun when a dog decides to follow along while I'm doing field work and hiking in the woods. #fieldworkfriday #geology #dogsofmastodon #Dogs

a beagle pup with a jade colored color walks along a log in the woods.

Found a faerie bath in the forest
#FungiFriday #FieldworkFriday #Mushrooms

A mushroom with a concave cap that has a pool of water in it

It was a good but very hard day geologizing and bushwacking in north Alabama .
#lichensubscribe #fieldworkfriday #lichens

pixie cup lichen lines a rock outcrop. they have tiny entrusting parts that look like pistachio green lettuce and stalks of the same color and with relative dimensions like a baseball bat, capped with roundish rust colored nobs.

We are hiring! Field ecologist job. Travelling around collecting data, showing other people how to collect data, and bringing the data back for me (and others) to analyse!

This job has everything - drones, audiomoths, camera traps, cool locations, cool people, and you get to work with me.

#job #ecology #fieldwork #fieldworkfriday

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RT by @LIFEprogramme: 🐇A nossa equipa LIFE LxAquila tem andado em busca de indícios de coelho, para estimar o tamanho das populações desta presa importante para as águias-de-bonelli. 🦅

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