kennarubin.bsky.social
#science #volcanoes #oceans #environment #coastal #coral #geochemistry #geology #data #deepsea #INTP, 👌Media inquiries. Assoc Dean U. Rhode Island-GSO, past U. Hawaii Dept. Chair. 🚫 personal DM. 🦋🌋🪸⚒️ 🏳️⚧️🌊🧪.
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Posted alt text as a comment, if that is what you were referring to.
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Bluesky doesn't seem to show video alt text:
Glowing hot high lava fountains captured at night on 26 Feb 2025 at Kilauea volcano, Hawaii, during his latest day long eruption pulse, "episode 11", of the ongoing eruption that started late last year. Source: USGS X account video x.com/USGSVolcanoe...
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That's what we are hoping for Lynne. It is mostly supposed to be mylonite beneath us. I asked the drillers to collect me some drilling spoils every 100 feet or so. I haven't had a chance to look at thus yet, but I can see my buckets inside their little fence - full of dark gray sludge. Yipee.
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Just the normal Geothernal gradient works surprisingly well, as long as the subsurface is sufficiently fractured or porous to allow easy water flow.
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Definitely a more carribean vibe there.
Have you ever been to samoa (not Anerican Samoa, though)? What they used to call western Samoa seems like how hawaii must have been a century ago.
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Love the vibes.
I'm missing Hawaii since moving away in 2023. You might vibe with this Instagram post I didn't also share on BlueSky...
www.instagram.com/p/DFlOQ0XSQg...
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Sometimes, a slug of magma fed from the lower chamber beneath Kilauea comes up hotter and/ or more gas rich. Let's hope the team is able to continue monitoring and doing chemical analysis because that + geophysics is how they tie eruption behavior to what's happening inside the volcano.
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Excellent terminology. The dissolved gasses work with the low viscosity to enhance squirtyness.
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Always amazing, even when not erupting. The sights, smells, sounds of the volcano are many and varied.
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Not 100% certain, but I think so. There's been enhanced methane monitoring all over that region in the past decades, including satellite methods.
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Me too 😀. And probably the most memorable and exciting expedition. I remember barely sleeping -too much neat stuff going on. BTW, I just saw that molten lava we sampled while packing my UH lab 2 wks ago.
How about an expedition reunion while our more senior colleague-participants are still around?
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Yes. 10 cm apart.
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Thanks for watching. @whoi.edu just recently posted the clip -without promotion.
Now were hoping to get more views. Spread the link 😉
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I will share more soon !
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And the pilots generally love collecting rocks.
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It's always a tussle in interdisciplinary cruises, especially when there's water sampling to be done. Fortunately, I will put my rocks anywhere: in a crate, bio box, between compartments, with weights or narkers doubled up, whatever 😁
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I used to be in awe of the folks at SIO who wore shorts every day to work. But yesterday, in a sub-zero, pre- snow bike ride, I saw a guy walking his dog in shorts here in rhode island.
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tubular. gnarly. big props to those who 🏄in the 🥶.
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🧪 2/2:
A map from a Bull. Vol. paper by my @urigso.bsky.social colleague Adam Soule & two #USGSHVO staff members from a 2020 study (see link in ALT text) of lava that was deposited offshore (tongues that extended >1 km to sea to ~750 m water depths).⚒️ 🌊
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Kinda. We should talk. I was just back in hawaii, packing up most of my specimens to be shipped to rhode island. I changed jobs in june 2023. So my collection is a little in flux
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Part of why 🪸 so useful for tracking sea level and other paleo environmental changes. 😁
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In Hawaii, from my coral dating, the global melt water pulse 1a uptick in sea level rise (for ~500yr at 14 kyr ago) fostered fast reef growth (e.g. these outcrops), followed by a slowing of sea level rise that fosters more diversity on the paleo reef, less vertical growth, & flatter seabed.
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Ironically those conditions exist here too. Most of my photos are of places where we took samples, which included looking for areas without much of that living mesophotic stuff. Also, just 20m shallower (120-130m) there is a lot more, in part because reef morph. flattens (a past sea level reponse)
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Both historical EPR eruptions (1991-92 & 2005-06) I dated with 210Po, but it only goes back 2.5-3 yrs. For this MCR interval, we would use 210Pb-226Ra, but since moving to RI, I no longer have a lab for that. I will have a new clean lab in a building we should have by 2028, but not right now.
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It's a beaimut 😍 ! No radiometric ages (difficult in this age range), but sort of. Using mean estimated western carribbean sedimentation rates and sediment cover, I estimate 10-50 years. But based on freshness, I think more like 10 to maybe 20yr. (See Rubin et al. 2023, zenodo.org/records/1393...)
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😊❤️👋
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And amazingly, this was the passage that pushed his buttons: wtf, right?
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... or can't stand someone NOT like them having an opportunity.
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Erik, you & other #scicomm experts should work at your own pace & comfort level. There's a time & place for introspection & activism.
Since Jan 20th, I have struggled with this daily: "To post or not to post" 🤔
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It is very nice to meet you too!! And best wishes to you and yours.
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❤️❤️ .. and BTW, Yay, Hadal zone !! So amazing.
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🧪 Just realized 2 of original images in my "BEWARE" science content post are the same 🤦♀️. Here is correct image #2 ("A highlighted quote from the article pointing out the inclusivity in ocean exploration is a goal"). You can see the benign article content the harasser objected to & called racist 🌊
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Yes, you are probably right. Anything is probably possible right now.
And maybe they are just looking for a reaction to feel good about their little lives.. or someone to blame for their under achievement.
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Yeah, I'm sure there is more than one reason to use proton. But the maggots do love the cover of anonymity.
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I don't think I can block a whole domain with work email (gmail), but it is a great idea!