Happy birthday to astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin, born on this day in 1964.

He's also one of the stellar cast of astronauts featured in National Geographic's series One Strange Rock, which tells the story of Earth’s history from a planetary perspective. (Plus he has one of the greatest official work photos of all time!)

Within our solar system, planet Earth is utterly unique among the planets, moons, and dwarf planets found there. Only Earth has a breathable atmosphere, the ability to “heal” itself following planetary bombardment in its early history and more recent “extinction events,” and large amounts of liquid water on its surface.

We offer free lessons plans for this series to teach in science, English and history classes.

It's a great cross-curriculum teaching tool for Earth Month!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/one-strange-rock/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Brithdays&utm_content=link

#Education #LelandMelvin #StemEducation #Homeschooling #EarthScience #Stem #BOTD #OTD #EarthMonth #EnvironmentalStudies

Happy birthday to astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin, born on this day in 1964.

He's also one of the stellar cast of astronauts featured in National Geographic's series One Strange Rock, which tells the story of Earth’s history from a planetary perspective. (Plus he has one of the greatest official work photos of all time!)

Within our solar system, planet Earth is utterly unique among the planets, moons, and dwarf planets found there. Only Earth has a breathable atmosphere, the ability to “heal” itself following planetary bombardment in its early history and more recent “extinction events,” and large amounts of liquid water on its surface.

We offer free lessons plans for this series to teach in science, English and history classes.

It's a great cross-curriculum teaching tool for Earth Month!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/one-strange-rock/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Brithdays&utm_content=link

#Education #LelandMelvin #StemEducation #Homeschooling #EarthScience #Stem #BOTD #OTD #EarthMonth #EnvironmentalStudies

Happy birthday to astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin, born on this day in 1964.

He's also one of the stellar cast of astronauts featured in National Geographic's series One Strange Rock, which tells the story of Earth’s history from a planetary perspective. (Plus he has one of the greatest official work photos of all time!)

Within our solar system, planet Earth is utterly unique among the planets, moons, and dwarf planets found there. Only Earth has a breathable atmosphere, the ability to “heal” itself following planetary bombardment in its early history and more recent “extinction events,” and large amounts of liquid water on its surface.

We offer free lessons plans for this series to teach in science, English and history classes.

It's a great cross-curriculum teaching tool for Earth Month!

https://journeysinfilm.org/film/one-strange-rock/?utm_source=Mastodon&utm_medium=Social+Media&utm_campaign=Brithdays&utm_content=link

#Education #LelandMelvin #StemEducation #Homeschooling #EarthScience #Stem #BOTD #OTD #EarthMonth #EnvironmentalStudies

The city of #Pompeii was buried by the #eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city's water supply system based on carbonate deposits
#Anthropology #Archeology #EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/anth01132601.html

The city of #Pompeii was buried by the #eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) have now reconstructed the city's water supply system based on carbonate deposits
#Anthropology #Archeology #EarthScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/anth01132601.html

Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1383517882

#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #mastoArt

Another of scientists without a known birthday: my #linocut of ancient Chinese Han Dynasty #polymath & statesman Zhang Heng (78-139) who invented a seismoscope (simplified seismometer which does not make a record of earth motions) to detect distant earthquakes & indicate their direction, 2000 years ago! Here with a reconstruction of his seismoscope, schematic of how it might have worked & 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/1383517882

#histsci #printmaking #ZhangHeng #EarthScience #seismology #mastoArt

Here's a worthy geoheritage cause; the Scottish Geology Trust is running a crowdfunding campaign for a "Deep Time Trail" at Siccar Point ahead of the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's Birth next year.

It looks like access has already been improved since I last visited (when you parked by a vegetable farm and clambered over fences), but some proper interpretative signage would be a real boon.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

#geology #EarthScience #Scotland

Here's a worthy geoheritage cause; the Scottish Geology Trust is running a crowdfunding campaign for a "Deep Time Trail" at Siccar Point ahead of the 300th anniversary of James Hutton's Birth next year.

It looks like access has already been improved since I last visited (when you parked by a vegetable farm and clambered over fences), but some proper interpretative signage would be a real boon.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/siccar-point

#geology #EarthScience #Scotland

@Sustainable2050
Saddest thing is that we've seen this coming for years, and if they would've listened to their own scientists, it would've been at least delayed. But they didn't just deplete their water, they destroyed the #aquifer .

#Iran #Tehran #earthscience

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3039

@Sustainable2050
Saddest thing is that we've seen this coming for years, and if they would've listened to their own scientists, it would've been at least delayed. But they didn't just deplete their water, they destroyed the #aquifer .

#Iran #Tehran #earthscience

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk3039

A petition to stop the dissolution of 'Geology' (including palaeontology) at the University of Leicester: https://c.org/PYDT54ynd2

"If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy."

#Geology #EarthScience #Leicester #paleontology #palaeontology #UniversityOfLeicester

A petition to stop the dissolution of 'Geology' (including palaeontology) at the University of Leicester: https://c.org/PYDT54ynd2

"If the proposal goes ahead, many staff will lose their jobs, crucial research will be shut down, and the future of undergraduate degrees is in jeopardy."

#Geology #EarthScience #Leicester #paleontology #palaeontology #UniversityOfLeicester

Happy birthday to geologist Charles Lyell (1797-1875) who in his famous ‘Principles of Geology,’ wrote that to avoid some sources of prejudice in understanding #geology would require an Amphibious Being, who could, say, compare processes happening today on land & those happening below water with what we see in the geological record. 🧵1/n

#linocut #printmaking #histstm #AmphibiousBeing #amphibian #PhilosophyOfScience #EarthScience #imaginaryFriend #geologist #MastoArt

@EuroGeosciences tagging #fedihire #Germany #earthScience #planetaryScience #spaceScience ⬆️

Tip from @BartVerheggen

Tracking the atmospheric CO2 concentration throughout the last 800,000 years.

(Video downloaded from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UatUDnFmNTY)

#ClimateChange #CO2 #Greenhouse #ClimateScience #EarthScience

Tip from @BartVerheggen

Tracking the atmospheric CO2 concentration throughout the last 800,000 years.

(Video downloaded from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UatUDnFmNTY)

#ClimateChange #CO2 #Greenhouse #ClimateScience #EarthScience

In this battle between pretty blue but very rare gemstones, I am voting Jeremejevite, which is pleochroic with colour changing with viewing angle and piezoelectric, over Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, even though it can fluoresce.

It’s a tough call. Art & physics arguments for both.

#MinCup25 #scicomm #minerals#EarthScience

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m03

In this battle between pretty blue but very rare gemstones, I am voting Jeremejevite, which is pleochroic with colour changing with viewing angle and piezoelectric, over Haüyne, formed in magma chambers, even though it can fluoresce.

It’s a tough call. Art & physics arguments for both.

#MinCup25 #scicomm #minerals#EarthScience

Vote: https://www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r1m03