Deep sea landscapes are a new frontier of human exploration – here’s what we may find...
New blog from @jessicairving.bsky.social and Elizabeth Day.
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It was great to visit and talk to so many people!
Hey, that’s an article about our InSight observers program in that table of contents! Congrats to @spacequakes.bsky.social on that and thanks to all of our InSight Seers who were a great part of our science team meetings in the last couple of years of the InSight mission.
A toy dinosaur looking at the opening slide of the Harold Jeffreys lecture, with the view from a train window in the background
A reminder that if you’re in London this afternoon, I’ll be presenting the Royal Astronomical Society’s Harold Jeffreys Lecture at 4pm. 2D dino thinks it will be pretty interesting!
3D Enceladus paper out now in JGR Planets (OA): doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Join us as we consider how Enceladus' 3D ice shell could affect body wave seismology! 🧪⚒️🪐🔭
This constitutes the last ~18 months of my PhD research with @jessicairving.bsky.social and I think our results are very cool indeed.
Half way through #AGU24 and looking for something a bit different? How about some Martian seismology? In the planetary seismology session on Thursday morning you can hear Ved Lekic talk about how we read seismograms from the biggest event detected on the red planet agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...
For those interested in the Ocean Worlds Working Group (OWWG) Science Co-lead position, you can apply here
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Hello Geosky ⚒️! If you could recommend a book or website to a newly interested young person - that might give them a good idea of how great geology is - what might you suggest?
Thanks!
I’d be happy to be added - might push me into being more active :-)
Congratulations! This looks amazing
Can anyone remind me the correct order for submitting to
EarthArXiv and Geophys. J. Int.? We've done this before, but I don't remember the details! Can we upload the prepreint after submission, or must it be before?
Does anyone know about any work on the language surrounding radioactive processes? This morning I talked about "Parent isotopes decaying" and in a year group of >100 there will be students who have been bereved and who hear about "a sample losing parent isotopes" who are taken back to family loss.
Dreaming about realms beyond the terrestrial planets: did you ever wonder what we could do with seismology on Enceladus? Kat Dapre's first paper is out, and it does just that! We're interested in how seismology might let us distinguish what's going on beneath the icy exterior. Open access science
How can we map anomalies on the core-mantle boundary nearly 3000 km deep?
@CarlMartin_
presents a fresh Bayesian methodology and its application to the anomaly at the base of the Hawaiian mantle plume and a 2-part paper.
Part 1: t.co/XxzoiETvwY
Part 2: t.co/7nSh12B1he
The UGUK Teach Earth portal has been updated with a selection of new resources, and a more browsable index. If you're a teacher anywhere within Key Stage 1-5 - have a look at how your subject cross-links to Earth Sciences! earth-science.org.uk/teach-earth/
Thanks! I'd seen an advert for that recently but somehow conflated it with a UNAVCO offering.
Thanks! I'd never even heard of the first of these and was only vaguely familiar with the last of them.
Help please science friends: I'm trying to work out which vaguely geophysics-y online seminar series are running this autumn. I have Earthscope, RockyWorlds Discussion, CIG, Rifts+Rifted Margins and Landscapes Live. What am I missing?
Congratulations!
New in neat planetary seismology: fifty-year-old seismic records contained the signals of the Apollo 17 lunar module warming and cooling at sunrise and sunset. Congrats to the trio of authors! Imagine what we'll be able to hear with new instruments on the Moon.
The different kind of seismic waves detected are combined to work out that the most likely scenario is that compressional forces caused a 'reverse' fault ~22 km under the surface. On Earth we'd use multiple stations to understand a quake - here we get the most out of data from one hardy lander
Stories from Mars: how did the red planet's biggest measured quake happen? Ross Maguire led this research, which uses InSight seismic data to learn more about the focal mechanism of S1222a - the biggest seismic event heard in 4 years of seismic listening. Open access 🧪 planetary 🛰️ seismology ⚒️
Anyone in the Space 🛰️ or geoscience ⚒️ communities have more knowledge on this?
For any academic geoscience folks that have totally abandoned Twitter, you may not have seen yet that the new EES Jobs spreadsheet went live yesterday! Check out this cycle's earth & environment jobs and submit any postings you know of: rb.gy/cv9kj
Not totally sure that very niche explanation will ever come in useful, but there you go!
Earth's secrets get slowly revealed, for the most part. Part of being a seismologist is patience - waiting for the data to come.
Everything! But mostly imperceptibly. Every planetary body humans have had a seismometer on has had quakes.
Bristol as a city likes its hot air balloons - and we're going into the annual balloon festival. And when universities advertise, they always pick the most scenic images possible, hence the hot air balloons. We don't get as many as one might see in Albuquerque, but there are more than average.
