Dr. Dave Huber, Soil Scientist 🔥
@dphuber.bsky.social
Soils, agriculture, & ecosystems. I study dryland carbon & nutrient cycling, hydrology, fire ecology, & invasive species. Birthdate = -7.36‰. Views my own.
Spent the week at the USFS Starkey Experimental Forest in north-central Oregon (near La Grande).
Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.
Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.
November 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Spent the week at the USFS Starkey Experimental Forest in north-central Oregon (near La Grande).
Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.
Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.
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![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
One of the benefits of doing a lot of 3D printing for work is knowing how to accessorize your pumpkin for #Halloween
October 29, 2025 at 1:51 AM
One of the benefits of doing a lot of 3D printing for work is knowing how to accessorize your pumpkin for #Halloween
Post-fire debris flow characterization to understand sediment impacts on river and reservoir water quality.
October 17, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Post-fire debris flow characterization to understand sediment impacts on river and reservoir water quality.
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The rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a voice against the UCP, says one vocalist. 🎤 #abpoli
In Alberta, the Punks Are Taking Over | The Tyee
The scene is galvanizing against a common enemy: the United Conservative Party.
thetyee.ca
August 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a voice against the UCP, says one vocalist. 🎤 #abpoli
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![Comic. [3-column table with headers Period, My Favorite Part, and My Biggest Complaint] [Row 1] P: *Precambrian*, MFP: Life develops, MBC: Snowball Earth episodes [Row 2] P: Cambrian, MFP: Trilobites!, MBC: Evolution could stand to calm down a little [Row 3] P: Ordovician, MFP: Earth might have had rings, MBC: Scary volcanic eruption in North America [Row 4] P: Silurian, MFP: First land animals, MBC: Earth’s newfound mold problem [Row 5] P: Devonian, MFP: Big mountains in Boston, MBC: Yeah, sure, what those giant killer fish needed was *armor* [Row 6] P: Carboniferous, MFP: Cool forests, MBC: Bugs too big [Row 7] P: Permian, MFP: Pangea, MBC: Google “The Great Dying” [Row 8] P: Triassic, MFP: Tanystropheus [dinosaur with extremely long neck next to tiny person for scale], MBC: Damage to Canada still visible from space at Manicouagan [Row 9] P: Jurassic, MFP: Birds, MBC: Parasitoid wasps [Row 10] P: Cretaceous, MFP: Raptors, MBC: Raptors [Row 11] P: Paleogene, MFP: Pretty horseys!!!, MBC: Paleocene-eocene thermal maximum [Row 12] P: Neogene, MFP: Forests of *Dracaena* Dragonblood Trees, MBC: Zanclean Flood [Row 13] P: Quaternary, MFP: Burrito invented, MBC: Whoever picked this name for the third period of the Cenozoic](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreifyh56h2dhfnxxuarc6hspobseq6jzurt7mnkuo3dkvlkyrw6e76i@jpeg)
July 28, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You’re welcome. And thanks, Bellingham.
July 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
You’re welcome. And thanks, Bellingham.
Submit to our fall GSA session, T186. Critical Zone Science: Intersection of Processes Linked to Geomorphology, Ecology, Fire and Climate
July 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Submit to our fall GSA session, T186. Critical Zone Science: Intersection of Processes Linked to Geomorphology, Ecology, Fire and Climate
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Philanthropies ... rely on a solid base of federal support for science to make their own relatively small contributions impactful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Science philanthropy faces a new reality
As the ground under American science shifts in troubling and unpredictable ways, questions have arisen as to how philanthropies should respond. Having recently led a private foundation that supports s...
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July 23, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Philanthropies ... rely on a solid base of federal support for science to make their own relatively small contributions impactful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...
A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish
Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed a tag the size of a grain of rice that can also work underwater
www.smithsonianmag.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:59 AM
A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...
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Patchy burn severity explains heterogeneous soil viral and prokaryotic responses to fire in a mixed conifer forest journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Patchy burn severity explains heterogeneous soil viral and prokaryotic responses to fire in a mixed conifer forest | mSystems
The impact of fire on the soil microbiome, particularly on understudied soil viral communities, warrants investigation, given known microbial contributions to biogeochemical processes and ecosystem recovery. Here, we collected 120 soil samples before and ...
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May 19, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Patchy burn severity explains heterogeneous soil viral and prokaryotic responses to fire in a mixed conifer forest journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs
Family is on vacation so I get to work from home a little. It has its benefits ❤️
June 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Family is on vacation so I get to work from home a little. It has its benefits ❤️
Good idea!
Idaho State University researchers will partner with the Idaho Transportation Department to develop and test “Sweetcrete,” a new concrete made from a sugarbeet waste product.
Could Idaho sugarbeets help save taxpayer money on cement? ITD officials want to try
Idaho State University researchers will partner with the Idaho Transportation Department to develop and test “Sweetcrete,” a new concrete made from a sugarbeet waste product.
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June 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Good idea!
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New in @science.org: Natural hazards aren’t “one and done.” They alter the landscape, changing the likelihood of follow-on events. We argue there’s an urgent opportunity for geomorphologists—working with other disciplines—to better understand and forecast cascading hazards.
Cascading land surface hazards as a nexus in the Earth system
This Review synthesizes progress and outlines a new framework for understanding how land surface hazards interact and propagate as sediment cascades across Earth’s surface, influenced by interactions ...
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June 26, 2025 at 6:22 PM
New in @science.org: Natural hazards aren’t “one and done.” They alter the landscape, changing the likelihood of follow-on events. We argue there’s an urgent opportunity for geomorphologists—working with other disciplines—to better understand and forecast cascading hazards.
Summer rains (and snow) on severely burned hill slopes. We’ve seen several slumps and debris flows throughout the Boise NF this spring/summer.
June 24, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Summer rains (and snow) on severely burned hill slopes. We’ve seen several slumps and debris flows throughout the Boise NF this spring/summer.
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Life is hard if you are a GNSS station on a volcano with lots of fumaroles – everything wants to corrode you. This station was part of a National Science Foundation funded project (details below). Under the FY2026 proposed budget, NSF Earth Science funding would take a 64% hit. #VolcanoMonday 🧪⚒️🌋
June 2, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Life is hard if you are a GNSS station on a volcano with lots of fumaroles – everything wants to corrode you. This station was part of a National Science Foundation funded project (details below). Under the FY2026 proposed budget, NSF Earth Science funding would take a 64% hit. #VolcanoMonday 🧪⚒️🌋
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Latest Blatten aerial survey 4:30 pm! 🚁
Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊
They have partially emptied a dam lake 6 km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night
🎥 SRF
Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊
They have partially emptied a dam lake 6 km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night
🎥 SRF
May 29, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Latest Blatten aerial survey 4:30 pm! 🚁
Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊
They have partially emptied a dam lake 6 km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night
🎥 SRF
Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊
They have partially emptied a dam lake 6 km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night
🎥 SRF
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These tactics, as we note, are not new (see my 2015 @nytimes.com op-ed linked below (www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/o...). But Republicans, polluters and plutocrat overlords are taking it to a whole new level now.
May 29, 2025 at 2:03 PM
These tactics, as we note, are not new (see my 2015 @nytimes.com op-ed linked below (www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/o...). But Republicans, polluters and plutocrat overlords are taking it to a whole new level now.
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Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
May 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle...
Properly staggering! 😮😱
Properly staggering! 😮😱
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FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
May 29, 2025 at 10:50 AM
FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona
Don't miss that read! 🙏
polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/...
📷 Pomona