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Senator Ed Markey visited our department this week to show his support for the work we are conducting in collaboration with the @ArmyERDC to study the sustainability of our nation's coastlines and inland waterways in the face of climate change. Go Eagles!
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A BC study led by @BCEarthScience Professor Xingchen (Tony) Wang finds that heavy rains deliver the largest amounts of fertilizer-derived nitrogen pollution to the Gulf of Mexico.
Learn more in @physorg_com:
bit.ly/HeavyRainStudy
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Magnitude 3.8 earthquake today near York Harbor, Maine.
New @raspishake stations we recently installed in NH:
R7591: Canterbury, NH Public Library.
S6080: Near Laconia, NH – picture of me installing it with our undergrad and grad students in 2023.
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Urban Seismology: Magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Cuba recorded across NY City area.
USGS “Yellow Alert”: Some casualties and damage are possible😢impact should be localized.
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Great experience to be involved in this collaborative effort with great international team of co-authors led by scientists at “CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology" in Assam, India.
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Thank you @raspishake for this wonderful surprise gift that I just received!
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Less than 1 month left to apply!
🦅We are looking for a colleague in the "Solid Earth Geosciences" to join our @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. Please share!
Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/149620
A Rockslide-Generated Tsunami in a Greenland Fjord Rang the Earth for 9 Days:
New study published in the journal Science, co-Authored by an international team
of 68 scientists, including EESC Prof. Alan Kafka. science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
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Bedrock exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, @BCEarthScience's Jeremy Shakun and a research team report. on.bc.edu/UnprecedentedRetre…
ALT Jeremy Shakun wearing a red checkered shirt smiling at the camera with a computer behind him in a lab. Text reads: This is the first large region of the planet where we have strong evidence that glaciers have crossed this important benchmark—it is a ‘canary in the coalmine’ for glaciers everywhere.”
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Paleoclimatologist & @BCEarthScience Professor Jeremy Shakun and an international team report that the world’s glaciers are melting far faster than predicted, as ice no longer covers Andean bedrock. on.bc.edu/UnprecedentedRetre…
ALT The shrinking Quesque Glacier in Peru.
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🦅FACULTY JOB POSTING!
Come join our growing and thriving @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. We are seeking a "Solid Earth Geoscientist" (aka. petrology+) to complement our departmental strengths.
Questions? Ask me.
Please share!
Apply here:
apply.interfolio.com/149620
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🧑🔬JOB OPENING @BostonCollege
Director, Center for Isotope Geochemistry: clean room, two TIMS, Laser-QQQ ICPMS, DeltaV, MAT253, and room to grow. Join a great group of scholars at @BCEarthScience and Boston area.
Questions, ask me.
Please share!
Apply: bc.edu/content/bc-web/school…
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Boston College climate researchers lead the most comprehensive assessment to date of the potent greenhouse gas. on.bc.edu/OxideEmissions
ALT Photo of Hanqin Tian wearing a light blue button-down shirt and navy blue blazer, standing with his hands clasped in front of him looking at the camera. Text reads: “Nitrous oxide emissions from human activities must decline in order to limit global temperature rise to 2°C as established by the Paris Agreement. Reducing nitrous oxide emissions is the only solution since at this point no technologies exist that can remove nitrous oxide from the atmosphere.”
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Motivated by the recent magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey, I have written a new variation of my blog “Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?”
This one is called:
“Why Does the Earth Quake in New York City?” - Here's the link:
bcespquakes.com/ak_site/why_…
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Emissions of nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane - continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, according to a new report led in the U.S. by BC climate scientists. on.bc.edu/OxideEmissions
ALT graphic with bar graph of Global N2O budget
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🎉NEW EPISODE ALERT!
The final episode of Every Rock Has A Story - Season Four - premieres tonight at 7:30 EST. See @kmgoodenough take us to a real lithium deposit in Sweden. Thanks to @UnitedLithium for letting us see these amazing rocks
youtu.be/7xtNaS6x7BM
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Congratulations to @BCEarthScience Professor Ethan Baxter as his "Every Rock Has A Story" season four has been nominated for a @NewEnglandEmmy in the Children/Youth Category. This is the second year in a row @EthanRockStory's series have been nominated. brnw.ch/EveryRockSeason4
ALT Flyer for Every Rock Has a Story with headshots of guests
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Lepidolite from a pegmatite in Maine! A source of LITHIUM for our green energy future.
Stop 4 of the Earth Materials field trip @BCEarthScience
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Stop 3 of our Earth Materials field trip - look of those giant feldspar crystals! @BCEarthScience
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Magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey today, recorded by @raspishake seismograph in Brooklyn, NY.
