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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 9h

Seduction zone is my all time favourite

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 2d

The change in one year is just insane

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 2d

Spot the drone 👀 Our third visit to Quesnel BC where we’ve been mapping deformation of the aptly-named “Big Slide” using drone lidar. Last year, you could walk along that road! Expert piloting skills by @thatfaultguy.bsky.social

Photo from the top of a large landslide, where part of a road has fallen away. A tiny drone is (barely) visible in the sky above. Lots of fall foliage and Fraser River in the distance

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 5d

I’d have liked to see more density in neighbourhoods close to the ocean, rather than leaving our amazing sea views to the multi millionaires. e.g. Cadboro Bay which unlike my neighbourhood has buses, shops, and is walkable to UVic.

Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 5d

Well please reconsider changes along Cedar Hill X and Maplewood anyway. CHX has no bus route or even bike lane so how it can fit apartments on either side is beyond me. Those living there will still be 15 mins from nearest shops on McKenzie so it’ll be no less walkable, just ever more traffic.

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · 5d

Dean, for those of us in SFHs marked for rezoning as apartments, how will you prevent us dealing with crippling increases in property tax as our land value rises? It is going to price us out of our own homes, whose actual resale value will therefore drop. The QMP is much too much, too quickly!

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 6d

🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

(please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦

Opportunities matching 'earth'

Search 4 Careers available at University of Calgary.

careers.ucalgary.ca

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SchoolShake @schoolshake.bsky.social · 21d

This mornings M3.0 felt earthquake near Duncan was well recorded on the #SchoolShake network. No damages expected, but a great reminder to be prepared.

Felt reports and details: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/recent/2025/...

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bse @doktrock.bsky.social · 24d

🚨Job Alert 🚨 The Department of #Geology at the University of Otago in #NewZealand invites applications for a faculty position (Lecturer – equivalent to Assistant Professor in North American academic systems) in Earth sciences or adjacent field. ⚒️🧪 #Geosciences

otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

Lecturer/Pūkenga - Geology

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

otago.taleo.net

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Mihai Cirstea @mihai-cirstea.bsky.social · 26d

Why are "nation building projects" always things that accelerate the destruction of the planet largely to the benefit of multinational corporations, and never things that would benefit millions of Canadians like, say, high speed passenger rail?

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · Sep 9

Don’t disagree (and Siamese Dream is one of my all time favourite albums) but Billy Corgan is unfortunately a bit of a twat which slightly spoils it for me

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · Aug 27

A constellation of geodesists

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Ryan J Hollister @phaneritic.bsky.social · Aug 23

This new storymap of the M8.8 Kamchatka Peninsula Earthquake by the USGS is EXCELLENT and will be of great use to anyone teaching classes that involve quakes or tectonics. ⚒️
earthquake.usgs.gov/storymap/ind...

The 2025 Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake

The July 29, 2025, M8.8 earthquake east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia, occurred as the result of shallow reverse faulting.

earthquake.usgs.gov

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Morgan Moschetti @morganmp.bsky.social · Aug 22

USGS event page on the Tracy Arm landslide and tsunami. There are some great photos here showing the scale of the landslide and tsunami runup on the other side of the cove—almost 500 meters!

www.usgs.gov/programs/lan...

2025 Tracy Arm Landslide-Generated Tsunami

A landslide above the toe of the South Sawyer Glacier failed into the waters of Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska, producing a tsunami on Sunday, August 10th, 2025, at 05:26 AKDT / 13:26 UTC. No inju...

www.usgs.gov

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Nathalie Redick @nredick.bsky.social · Aug 21

we just saw one of the coolest sights yet on the #pacsafe2025 research cruise!! a huge pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins 🐬 looking for food off the back of the CCGS Tully

@thobbsgeo.bsky.social @rdave6.bsky.social @charbottles.bsky.social

#fieldwork #science #womeninstem #dolphins #wildlife 🧪

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akearthquake.bsky.social @akearthquake.bsky.social · Aug 21

We are live on BlueSky! The Alaska Earthquake Center (AEC) tracks earthquakes 🌎, landslides 🪨, explosions 💥, icequakes 🏔️, tsunamis 🌊, volcanoes 🌋, and more 🔍 🧪 ⚒️, advancing Alaska's resilience to earthquakes through monitoring, research, and public engagement. ✍️ 🗣️

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Prof Chris Jackson @seismatters.bsky.social · Aug 19

🌍 Why Geology Matters!

📺 Shawn Willsey’s YouTube channel (“Geology Explained”) is ace! With >150,000 subscribers, his podcasts dive into all aspects of geology!

☕️ I chatted to Shawn about my career, why geology matters, and the challenges of geoscience communication…

youtu.be/WxWrznYkRIw?...

youtu.be

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SchoolShake @schoolshake.bsky.social · Aug 19

Felt earthquake in the Juan de Fuca straight just south of Victoria! This was felt across the CRD and in Washington State. No damage expected, but another reminder we live in earthquake country.

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Dr. Tiegan Hobbs @thobbsgeo.bsky.social · Aug 18

Yesterday afternoon we finished the final #Ocean Bottom #Seismometer recoveries for #PACSAFE2025, and started redeploying along the Explorer Plate! Here’s a look at our “full house”, with 23 instruments on deck.

#ScienceAtSea #Fieldwork @seos-uvic.bsky.social @eoas.ubc.ca @dalhousieu.bsky.social

Aft deck of a research ship, with many large blue steel stillage crates containing yellow circular ocean bottom seismometers. It is sunny, and one adult man stands on deck looking at the instruments.

A rainbow over the ocean, as seen from a research ship off the west coast of Canada.

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Lucinda Leonard @lucindaleonard.bsky.social · Aug 16

Another active fault on Vancouver Island - our new paper documents evidence for at least 3 Holocene earthquakes on the Beaufort Range fault

Seismica @weareseismica.bsky.social · Aug 15

🌍The Beaufort Range fault is ACTIVE!
This right-lateral oblique Beaufort Range faulting occurs >100 km farther North than previously documented faults in the Cascadia forearc.
Read more: seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
NAU Research @nau-ses.bsky.social
UVic SEOS @seos-uvic.bsky.social

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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · Aug 16

Sawyer Island located in the middle of Tracy Arm, 7 km downstream the landslide, shown here before and after the estimated 30-m high tsunami! 🌊😱

The isolated tree was particularly resilient! 🌲💪

Via @nikzimmer87.bsky.social

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · Aug 16

Wow, it’s nauseating just looking at the video! Hope you’re all coping. Feeling autumnal here in Victoria with the first sustained rain in many weeks, so not surprised it’s rough where you are 🤢

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Edwin Nissen @faultydata.bsky.social · Aug 16

That looked entertaining! Fellow Sky Blue BlueSkyer here btw

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Andrew Weaver @ajwvictoriabc.bsky.social · Aug 14

It’s been more than 20 years since I installed the 1st school-based weather station at Strawberry Vale Elementary on March 11, 2005. Now, the project is at a critical juncture. Do I shut it down, or do I try to reinvigorate it? Decision day is Sept. 30, 2025.
www.andrewjweaver.ca/2025/08/14/s...

School-based weather station network: End of an era or start a refresh? - Andrew Weaver: A Climate for Hope

It's been more than twenty years since I installed the first school-based weather station at Strawberry Vale Elementary on March 11, 2005. Now, the project is at a critical juncture. Do I shut it down, or do I try to reinvigorate it? Decision day is September 30, 2025.

www.andrewjweaver.ca

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Jenna C. Hill @chillocean.bsky.social · Aug 15

Alaska Earthquake Center posted a nice explainer video with some of the video reconnaissance following the recent #landslide and #tsunami in Tracy Arm, south of Juneau, Alaska. It’s a whopper! 🧪⚒️

Early View of Tracy Arm Landslide Features

YouTube video by Alaska Earthquake Center

youtu.be

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