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
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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.
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
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
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
First field dog of 2025
A great day for getting some strikes and dips.
#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 
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?
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.
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
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
Found a faerie bath in the forest
#FungiFriday #FieldworkFriday #Mushrooms
It was a good but very hard day geologizing and bushwacking in north Alabama .
#lichensubscribe #fieldworkfriday #lichens
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.
Same as it every was. From The Highlands Controversy by David R. Oldroyd. #geology #fieldworkfriday #mapping
The Geologists
A poster I had printed of a photo from the first field camp I was a TA on. #geology #fieldworkfriday #Fieldcamp #camping #Photography
It's going to be a cold one tonight, a low of 27°F.
#camping #fieldphotos #fieldworkfriday
Found a cave while mapping in the Knox Group.
#fieldworkfriday #FridayFieldPhoto #geology #caves #Alabama
Welp, these rocks shouldn't be here, or dipping the way they are... I'll need to rethink what's going on along this section of fault.