Natural Resources Canada is hiring: Field Electronics Technologist - Closing Sept. 17, 2026 Victoria, BC; Yellowknife, NT or Ottawa, ON emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... Seismic Analyst - closing Sept.9, 2026 Victoria, BC or Ottawa, ON emploisfp-psjobs.cfp-psc.gc.ca/psrs-srfp/ap... ⚒️🧪🇨🇦

Latest high resolution drone pictures of the source area of the rock ice avalanche that triggered the Nepal flood! 🧊🌊 📷 Guoxiong Zheng

Some initial thoughts on the catastrophic debris flow in Nepal and Tibet in Nepal and Tibet today:- eos.org/thelandslide... This draws on the initial analysis of @planet.com images by @watershedlab.bsky.social

The source of the flood in Nepal is a collapsed glacier 🧪⚒️

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 2mo ago

There has been a truly horrific flood in Nepal this morning (you can go search for videos). Let's be careful not to jump to conclusions about the trigger until we have visual confirmation. This is unlikely to have been a glacial lake outburst flood. 🧪⚒️

Initial analyses of satellite images and seismic data by @watershedlab.bsky.social & @kristencook.bsky.social suggest that the collapse of a high glacier caused the flash flood disaster in Nepal www.newscientist.com/article/2586...

A glacier collapse is most likely cause of the Nepal disaster | New Scientist

Melting snow appears to have weakened a steep glacier at an altitude of 5 kilometres, causing it to plummet around a kilometre into the river valley below

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Could the San Juan Fault pose an earthquake risk to Vancouver Island? Salomon et al. find evidence for recent fault motion and call for further investigation of this potentially active fault. 🔗 Read now: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...

Pleqse share!! Postdoc opportunity for near-real-time landslide detection in Alaska!!! The successful applicant will get to work with the amazing @ezgikarasozen.bsky.social See this page for more info! earthquake.alaska.edu/job-opportun... 🪨⚒️🧪

Are you a Canadian PhD student or recent grad (or international person with a PhD from Canada or currently in Canada) and want to do geohazards or geomorphology research with me @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social , get in touch! 🧪⚒️❄️🛰️ nserc-crsng.canada.ca/en/funding-o...

Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program

The Canada Postdoctoral Research Award (CPRA) program supports and promotes research excellence in a wide variety of disciplines and broad fields of health, natural sciences and engineering and social...

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What in fresh hell is this

Wait for it .... 11 seconds and BOOM! Some breathtaking footage from Fuego 🇬🇹 and @boisestate.bsky.social scientists in this great science update on infrasound sensors. eos.org/science-upda...

A wonderful new paper (Shugar et al. 2026) on the 150 million tonne Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami will have profound but challenging implications for the management of risk in fjords around the world in an age of increased tourism and rapid climate change:- eos.org/thelandslide...

The 10 August 2025 landslide and tsunami at Tracy Arm fjord

A new paper on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami has profound but challenging implications for the management of risk in fjords

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🚨New paper about the second largest tsunami ever recorded, just published in @science.org A short 🧪⚒️🌊 thread #EGU26 @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social doi.org/10.1126/scie...

A 481-meter-high landslide-tsunami in a cruise ship–frequented Alaska fjord

Early in the morning of 10 August 2025, a >64 × 106 m3 landslide struck Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska. The landslide was preconditioned by glacial retreat caused by climate change. The resulting 481 m run...

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A bit late posting this but it’s Earth Day and our new paper on the Rocky Mountain Trench, one of North America’s most prominent topographic lineaments, recently came out in JGR. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m quoted in this excellent Scientific American article on the incredible Zagros mountains, the focus of much of my PhD and postdoc research. The Zagros’s unique tectonic history explains the Gulf’s rich oil and gas reserves and ultimately the Gulf itself, including the narrow Strait of Hormuz.

Andrea Thompson@andreatweather.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics: 🧪

The Canadian Quaternary Association (CANQUA) Biennial Meeting is taking place at McGill University in Montreal, June 3-6, 2026. Abstracts are due March 6th! event.fourwaves.com/canqua2026/p... If you work on geohazards, please consider submitting an abstract to our session:

February 21, 1993, died on this day aged 105 years, Danish seismologist Inge Lehman. She discovered that the Earth has a inner core announcing it in 1936 with the shortest title for a paper ever: P' - after the seismic discontinuity between core and mantle shown by the P-waves

The Department of Earth Sciences and St Peter's College are recruiting an Associate Professor (or Professor) in Earth Surface Processes to join our thriving academic community! earth.web.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

A thread for the 15-year anniversary of the 2011 Christchurch earthquake. I won’t have a chance to post it on the day, so I’m doing it a couple days early. Note that the work I’m posting was carried out by many brilliant people. 1/

⚒️🧪 friends, let's make sure @agu.org knows we all want them to get completely off the Nazi cesspool. 3...2...1....go! (that means like and reskeet this!) @agucryo.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguseismology.bsky.social @agucatchhydro.bsky.social @aguscipolicy.bsky.social @gec-agu.bsky.social

AGU (American Geophysical Union)@agu.org · 8mo ago

Hi! While we can't make the change now, we are sharing your thoughts with the team. Have a great time at OSM26!

⚒️🧪Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption! The Daşmərdan (Dashmardan) mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted ~16:50 on the 30th Jan 2026. The eruption lasted ~15 mins and was accompanied by a pillar of flame several hundred meters high. Daşmərdan had previous documented eruptions in 1866, 1954, 1976, 1986 and 2011.

326 years ago tonight (9 p.m. Jan. 26, 1700) a M~9 Cascadia subduction earthquake rocked the west coast from #VancouverIsland to northern California. The Juan de Fuca Plate slipped up to 20 m, causing a large tsunami, strong shaking and landslides www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/historic-his... ⚒️🧪

Exciting to see lake tsunami research in the spotlight! I joined CBC to talk about our work at Chehalis Lake and how we can go about better understanding lake tsunami hazard here in BC. #Geohazards #LakeTsunami #ScienceCommunication

B.C. has seen a lake tsunami before — and it could happen again | CBC News

In 2007, a massive landslide crashed into B.C.'s Lake Chehalis, triggering a tsunami that surged 38 metres up the shore — one of the most dramatic inland waves ever recorded. CBC’s Johanna Wagstaffe l...

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Learn more about the Dec 2025 M7 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake and landslides with AEC Director Michael West and USGS Landslide Specialist Kate Allstadt on Feb. 5, 12-1 pm Pac Time. Register here: my.eeri.org/events/event...

Sample data from the NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) L-band imaging radar is now available from the NASA EarthData system. These are preliminary products with some caveats but include an interferogram for the November 2025 volcanic eruption in Ethiopia. www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/nisar-s...

NISAR Sample Data Products Available | NASA Earthdata

NISAR L-band data products are now available, giving users a first look at data products from NISAR acquisitions.

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Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

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A sensational guest post by Derek Cronmiller, Theron Finley Panya Lipovsky and Jan Dettmer of the Yukon Geological Survey: Photos and Preliminary Observations from an Overview Flight of the 6 December 2025 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake, Yukon Territory, Canada. eos.org/thelandslide...

@overleaf.com is a prime example of AI enshittification. With its new AI tools (that no-one asked for) slowing the website down, I have to wait thirty seconds for the text & cursor to catch up after every sentence I write. 🤦‍♂️ If it ain’t broke, etc. etc. #AcademicSky #Research #HigherEd

⛏️🌋 Dreamy views of the Cascade volcanoes this weekend from the southern tip of Vancouver island: that’s Mt Baker looming behind Victoria, and Glacier Peak poking through the clouds behind Race Rocks

On FB, Yukon Geological Survey posted some spectacular photos of landslides & snow avalanches triggered by the magnitude 7.0 earthquake on Dec 6 in the St Elias Mountains. Here are some of my favs. @geocron.bsky.social @theronfinley.bsky.social @davepetley.bsky.social @ksvenenvig.bsky.social 🧪⚒️