It’s an exciting #FieldworkFriday for me today — I’m travelling from -2 °C snow in Denmark to 22 °C in Najaf, #Iraq!

Together with my colleagues Tobias Richter from Copenhagen and Jaafar Jotheri from Al Qadisiyah University, I’ll be scouting out potential sites for future fieldwork as part of #AEGIS (https://aegisearth.bio). It’s my first time in Iraq so I cannot wait to finally see all the places I’ve been reading about since I was student!

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Perfect weather for a little geologizing. #fieldworkfriday

On this #FieldworkFriday here's a look at a Dust^2 team as they near the end of a day in the field.

Take a deeper trip into the field with Cluster member Jeff Munroe in our video series called The Collectors Tour: https://bit.ly/CollectorsTourPlaylist

#science #EarthScience #research #geology

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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Dust 19 | The Collectors Tour 2024

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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkjq-CUR188

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a remarkable convergence

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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.
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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

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Dust 18 | The Collectors Tour 2024

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Throwback to 2010: a joint paleoseismology and archaeology project in Kamchatka, Russia. Logistically, it was such a crazy, wonderful experience. We hired a small boat to very slowly tow a barge with a вездеход ("go-everywhere-mobile") across a large brackish lake so we could continue on to our field site #fieldworkfriday #kamchatka #geology #archaeology #boat #dogswithjobs