Really excited for my (almost former) PhD student, Daniel Astudillo Manosalva, who has accepted a post-doctoral fellowship at ETH Zurich! Daniel’s interests lie at the intersection of lunar petrology and geophysics, and he’ll be working on some big ideas at ETH!

🌋 TT job at UH Hilo 🌋 UH Hilo Geology is looking for a new faculty member in the broad area of hazards. We’ll be posting an announcement soon! I’ve really enjoyed my first year + want someone who loves the Big Island as much as I do to be my colleague. Happy to chat about it!

Hi friends!!!! Please consider kicking in a few dollars to support this project for a children’s book series based around wildlife conservation. It’s almost to its goal!!! Also it’s about Red Pandas!!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/tar...

Charli Safari - Red Panda

The start of a captivating children's book series, igniting curiosity and inspiring young minds about wildlife conservation!

Just showed the 4 year old A New Hope for the first time! 🥹🥹🥹

discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/ Using its ChemCam instrument, NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. 🧪

New findings point to an Earth-like environment on ancient Mars

Manganese-rich sandstones indicate there were once habitable conditions in the Gale Crater

GIFS on Bluesky YESSSSS!!!!

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🥹 Proud advisor moment yesterday! My first PhD student defended his dissertation!!!🍾 🎉 🎊 Congratulations to Dr. Daniel Astudillo Manosalva!!!

Literally UF’s PW policy

Sadly relatable…

Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job

Dear Students — I am sorry to say that I will need to cancel all classes for an indeterminate length of time while I work on doing my job. I realiz...