..and sometimes stuff stops working. This is a cloud radar, which dropped off the network. On investigation the electronics housing below the antenna was repeatedly beeping in the manner of a PC failing to boot. Turned out to be a push-fit memory board shaken loose from its slot by the vibration of ice-breaking. An easy fix, but it took hours to find the problem. #FieldPhotoFriday

Sometimes the wildlife comes to check things out...
#FieldPhotoFriday

...We installed a mast on the ice to measure turbulent fluxes of heat, moisture, and wind drag on the surface. Also solar and infra red radiative fluxes...keeping the radiometers free of frost is a never-ending job. #FieldPhotoFriday

Apparently it's Friday, and it's just 10 days until I head off to the Arctic for the #ArtOfMelt2023 field campaign, so here's some #FieldPhotoFriday fun from last time on the good ship Oden. 2018, close to the north pole, the Oden (home away from home) was moored to an ice floe and drifted for a month, while we made measurements of...well, everything we could.

#IceMan on an #Iceberg near #ilulissat on the #ilulissatIceFjord
Having fun with an outreach project while in #CovidQuarantine in #Greenland

Here is the story of ice man and his friend #Batgirl

https://icemangoeshome.wordpress.com/

#FieldWorkPhoto #FieldPhotoFriday #FridayFieldPhoto

Full res version on #Flickr
https://flic.kr/p/2m2RQxy

Fossil hunting on #Florida's Peace River for #FossilFriday, #FieldPhotoFriday, and #FieldWorkFriday.

The Peace River (Bone Valley Formation) is home to a rich mix of Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene #fossils. The record includes everything from Megalodon, Mastodon, Sabre Tooth Cat, Dire Wolf, Giant Ground Sloth.

#Fossil hunters on the Peace are two main types : divers/snorkelers and shovel-sifting. I am the latter type. I've dug my fair share of holes.

#Paleontology #BoneValley

One of those moments #InTheField when everyone is working at full tilt, making sure the observations are completed at a site before moving on to the next one.

#SeaIce NW #Greenland

#FridayFieldPhoto

Ad here is a new quick post: he countdown has begun and I'm in a #Fieldwork frame of mind.

(HT @tutam for the #FieldPhotoFriday reminder!)

https://sternaparadisaea.net/2023/01/12/expedition-frame-of-mind/

#FieldPhotoFriday

A typical North Mengen "cooking house" (vail ta) in Pomio, #PapuaNewGuinea. Each household has one and it is where the married couple and uninitiated children live. The women in the photo are heating stones of an earth oven (svoin) and preparing taro to be roasted in it.

Food cooked in the earth oven is presented especially during ceremonial gift exchanges.

#anthropology cc: @anthropology (or #FridayFieldPhoto, #FridayFieldworkPhoto series started by @Ruth_Mottram )

Fossil-hunting on #FieldPhotoFriday.

In this photo, I am walking in the shallows along the riverbank, looking for teeth, bones, tusks, or other fossils.

This scenic stretch of the Peace River is home to rich Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene deposits filled with everything from megalodon to mastodon.

This same spot has yielded a wealth of small fossils over the last few seasons.

#FieldPhoto #Paleontology #Florida #PeaceRiver

When you see one of these guys you take a #FieldPhotoFriday even if you are supposed to be looking at #geology in the #desert

A chuckwalla hanging out on a basalt flow near 17 mile point, #Mojave National Preserve.

Combo #FieldPhotoFriday and #faultfriday - a surface of one of the strands of the Soda-Avawatz fault zone in the eastern Soda Mountains north of Baker, CA. The striations show almost perfectly horizontal right-lateral strike slip motion. The fault cuts a probable #Pliocene alluvial deposit and is buried by a middle #Pleistocene alluvial fan deposit. This is one of several fault systems cutting across the Mojave Desert that is related to Pacific-North American plate boundary slip.

#geology

A combo toot for #FieldPhotoFriday and #FossilFriday (1/2)

These show my stepson and I searching large spoil piles at a construction site in #Florida's Bone Valley Formation.

The piles shown are entirely #Miocene and #Pliocene fossils - mostly seashells, along with some corals, shark teeth, and cetacean bone bits. These piles were 10m high in some places and quite unstable - caution was required.

We found some really nice specimens.

#Paleontology #Fossils #FossilHunting

A combo toot for #FieldPhotoFriday and #FossilFriday (1/2)

These show my stepson and I searching large spoil piles at a construction site in #Florida's Bone Valley Formation.

The piles shown are entirely #Miocene and #Pliocene fossils - mostly seashells, along with some corals, shark teeth, and cetacean bone bits. These piles were 10m high in some places and quite unstable - caution was required.

We found some really nice specimens.

#Paleontology #Fossils #FossilHunting

#FridayFieldworkPhoto part 6: A woman preparing her yam garden for planting.

The Mengen in Pomio plant two kinds of yam, the greater yam (Dioscorea alata, Mengen: klaip, Tok Pisin: yam) and the lesser yam (Dioscorea esculenta, M: mis, TP: mami ).

After burning, women meticulously clean the plots from all debris before planting the yam in mounds.

#horticulture #agriculture #anthropology #PapuaNewGuinea
#FieldPhotoFriday by @Ruth_Mottram
cc: @anthropology

Parallel laminations in an eolian sand dune deposit in the wasters #Mojave for this #FieldPhotoFriday. We used #luminescence #geochronology to constrain the age of these deposits to ~30,000 years old. They were most likely blown off of the dry lake bed of #Pleistocene Lake Thompson during a low stand and deposited up against high topography where we collected them.

#geology #geomorphology

Good morning! Here's a lovely offshore #FridayFieldPhoto from a spot a hundred or so miles off the coast of Florianópolis, Brazil, in the south Atlantic Ocean.

#FieldPhotoFriday #OceanScience #nature #sunset #ocean #boat #ship #moon

#FieldPhotoFriday in #Florida's Bone Valley Formation.

This is where we hunt for fossils. Our favorite spot is the Peace River. It cuts through #Miocene, #Pliocene, and #Pleistocene deposits. You can find a wide variety of #fossils, from #mammoth tusks to #megalodon teeth.

We kayak a few miles away from civilization and have a shovel and screen picnic. It's a great way to enjoy #nature, get some exercise, and find some interesting fossils.

#Paleontology #PeaceRiver

#FieldPhotoFriday in #Florida's Bone Valley Formation.

This is where we hunt for fossils. Our favorite spot is the Peace River. It cuts through #Miocene, #Pliocene, and #Pleistocene deposits. You can find a wide variety of #fossils, from #mammoth tusks to #megalodon teeth.

We kayak a few miles away from civilization and have a shovel and screen picnic. It's a great way to enjoy #nature, get some exercise, and find some interesting fossils.

#Paleontology #PeaceRiver

#FridayFieldPhoto #FieldPhotoFriday
Dec. 9th 2021. Panorama from the balcony of Sweden's Wasa Research Station, #Antarctica
#DML21_22
@polarforskning@twitter.com

This week’s #geology #FieldPhotoFriday - a view to the north across a strand of the Bristol-Granite Mountains #fault zone in the Northern Bristol Mountains of the #Mojave Desert. The narrow, sand decorated ridge in the middle ground is defined by a strand of this fault system. Behind you can see Soda Lake playa, the eastern Soda Mountains, and the Avawatz Mountains, which make up the high topography of the skyline. Taken while doing some surficial geologic #mapping earlier this year.