🛑 Did you know: Landslides can take on speeds over 56km/h? 💨

On Third Pod from the Sun, USGS Emeritus Richard Iverson speaks SPEED⚡ACTION🔬 DANGER❗& the days of prep it takes for 20 seconds of DRAMA🎭. All for research!

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This, my friends, is just a tiny portion of the new JWST image of the Pillars of Creation. The red regions are where stars are being born. Take the time to go see the full size image of the JWST site and lose yourself in it. It is absolutely incredible. Have a wonderful day! NASA

How the hell did I miss this JWST photo of Neptune glowing like a freaking ghost in a field of galaxies?

This picture 100% makes me feel like the little space alien that I am.

Editor's Pick: Klotzbach et al. find that minimum sea level pressure is a better predictor of #hurricane damage in the United States than the maximum sustained wind speed.

Jonathan Zawislak highlights their work: fal.cn/3t0vB

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The Kurenivka #mudslide that occurred in Kyiv in 1961 is worthy of “further, detailed study amidst the ongoing tragedy in Ukraine,” writes Dave Petley in The Landslide Blog at #AGUblogs .

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🪔 Happy #Diwali .

Editor's Pick: Wang et al. suggest that carbonatite metasomatism, not silicate metasomatism as previously thought, was dominant prior to the removal of the North China Craton in the early Cretaceous.

Check out Sujoy Ghosh's highlight: fal.cn/3sZYd

#AGUPubs

Maria Sibylla Merian is considered one of the earliest entomologists and ecologists and has a wide group of admirers, including Sir David Attenborough. Our video with BBC Ideas💡 tells her story, using animations based on her own illustrations:

A collaboration unearthed a slew of micrometeorites from the bottom of Lake Michigan. Scientists are now analyzing these tiny bits of cosmic dust to better understand their origin.

eos.org/articles/commu…

Learn more in our latest issue, free online: bit.ly/eos-oct22

Researchers grew winter oilseed rape, or canola, in temperature-controlled chambers and farm plots and found that the plant goes through a hibernation-like state that “breaks” only if the plants are sufficiently chilled.

eos.org/articles/warme…

New research from Ashish Sinha CSU Dominguez Hills and Gayatri Kathayata 西安交通大学 shows India’s monsoon had far greater variability than modern data show. Comments from Brendan Buckley LDEO.

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Check out USGS's 30 Cool Facts about Mount St. Helens, and then head over to Eos to read about 40 years' of research into biophysical responses to the 1980 eruption:

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Boston ranks third among 78 U.S. urban areas where 🏥 hospitals are at risk of flooding from hurricanes, writes Sabrina Shankman for The Boston Globe, citing an #AGUpubs study. #AGUintheNews

bostonglobe.com/2022/09/29/sci…

This coming Friday I'll be leading office hours on constructing a bibliography for AGU (American Geophysical Union) Honors! organized by AGU Biogeosciences DEI committee. Register here: agu.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

🧊 Glaciers on Mars move very slowly, without creating the features that glaciers have carved on Earth, reports Elizabeth Rayne for SPACE.com, citing an #AGUpubs study. #AGUintheNews

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Unlike other natural disasters🌩️🌪️, landslides are difficult to forecast. 🚧 So how do we prepare?

Third Pod from the Sun sat w/ USGS Emeritus Richard Iverson to talk debris flows & how researchers are gearing us for the next great landslide.

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🌊Proposal submissions are being accepted for the Ocean Visions Summit #OV23 taking place at the Georgia Aquarium in Atlanta, GA on 4-6 April 2023!

📅 Help advance ocean solutions by submitting a proposal today! 👉fal.cn/3sYSZ RT!

A recent article in the journal #Landslides reviews the causes of a January landslide in China’s Bijie City, writes Dave Petley in The Landslide Blog at #AGUblogs .

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