Liz Mahon

Shared some nerdy art at the Uni Utah Earth Art exhibition today!
#SciArt

Utah days 🏜️

Me rigging the sonar tool off the side of a skiff, while boat operator holds onto the back of my life jacket

Collecting sonar data

Selfie with red cliffs of Navajo Sandstone in the background

My hand next to a dinosaur footprint in the Kayenta Formation

Collected some great data in Lake Powell last week!
#ColoradoRiver #SanJuanRiver #MultibeamSonar

Me standing in front of my poster

Me presenting for the Seds Online great debate

A photo of the University of Huelva sign on a building, in the sunshine

Had a great IAS in Spain! A technical presentation (CO2 storage in aeolian sandstones), a poster (linking coal and shoreface dynamics), and the SedsOnline great debate - busy and fun times!
(Even with missing my flight out due to road closures in Seville and finally making it home 40 hrs later 😭)

SEPM Energy Transition conference, Salt Lake City 🤓

One more day to get your abstract in!
Consider submitting to our awesome session: Coast to shelf environments across time and space 😀

I’m so excited for warm, but also sad we don’t get much snow in the valley this winter 😄

Uni Utah Geology sign with snow on it

Presidents circle, uni Utah with snow covered trees, and the USA and Utah flags

Selfie in the snow

Finally some decent valley snow this winter! ☃️❄️ #SaltLakeCity #Winter

Dinosaur national monument quarry - mass of dinosaur bones on a tilted bedding plane in the Morrison Fm

A closer shot of the bone bed

A list of the most common animals found in the quarry: 10 dinosaurs, crocodile, sphenodont, turtle, clam, insects, plants

Dinosaur national monument quarry 😍

#dinosaur #DNM

Me in front of a frozen creek in a canyon

Hiking along a frozen creek

Climbing a frozen waterfall

Dinosaur footprint next to my hand

Todays adventures: hiking along a (mostly) frozen creek, climbing a frozen waterfall (and sliding down it like a slippery slide on the way home), aalll the aeolian dunes, and beautiful dinosaur footprint 😍

Me in front of Nugget Sandstone cross beds

Beautiful Nugget Sandstone cross beds in red and white

The team having a good break on the Nugget Sandstone

Mapping the Nugget Sandstone today! Beautiful cross beds 😍

I’m a tall lanky human so went for the Fjällräven Abisko. Bonus it’s narrow, so good if your fieldwork involves bush bashing

Same!

Rain map of the swirling rain of cyclone Alfred heading for Brisbane

Rain map of the swirling rain of cyclone Alfred heading for Brisbane

Watching a cyclone head for Brisbane. Hope everyone stays safe. That rain map though 😍

Me smiling in front of a stream table with lovely channels

Playing with the stream table for GeoFest 2025! #UofUGeo #UtahGeology #StreamTable

😂

Me in front of parasaurolophus skeleton

View of crowd at market in NHMU foyer

The famous triceratops skull wall at NHMU

The Nirvana style tshirt made for dinofest

Had a fantastic time at NHMU Dinofest 2025!
Love the Nirvana Nevermind-style tshirt 😆 #dinofest #nhmu

Sunset on the book cliffs with a car shadow

Sunset on the book cliffs

Sunset in the book cliffs, snow capped mountains in background

Sunset on the book cliffs 😍

Farm nature walks, soaking up the lush summer in Qld. So humid after Utah 🥵😅

Thank you! 😃

SLC airport allosaurus ‘Ally’, and aerial views of the Grand Canyon… lovely things before stepping on a 16 hour flight 😅😵‍💫

Boats on the banks of the muddy San Juan River

Me in a boat pulling up a sediment collection tool from the river bottom

Me with a Dino bone in the Hell Creek Formation, Montana

Me sitting on the Navajo Sandstone with a beautiful desert view behind me

I’ve finally made the Bluesky transition! For my first post, a summary of one of the best science years of my life: so many new experiences, rocks, fossils, collaborations, & fun adventures 😍
6 field work excursions: the San Juan and Colorado Rivers, Moab, Escalante, and Montana!