Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth
Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!
Pinned
Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth
· Nov 12
Hey there! I'm Gareth, a professor at the University of California, Riverside. I am a geophysicist who uses geodesy and seismology to study the earthquake source, fault creep, transient motions, geothermal fields, landslides... you name it! I also like travel, seeing live music and art. And owls!
Come and work with us!
Seismica is seeking a Community Coordinator to support the Executive Editor for Community. This role will help strengthen and sustain our organization by taking on several key responsibilities.
Estimated time commitment is ~5 hrs/month. For more details please email [email protected] by January 26.
Estimated time commitment is ~5 hrs/month. For more details please email [email protected] by January 26.
January 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
Come and work with us!
You can say that again!
January 9, 2026 at 6:20 AM
You can say that again!
Reposted by Gareth Funning
Want to learn more about NISAR (the new joint India/US synthetic aperture radar satellite mission)? Franz Meyer from UAF/Alaska Satellite Facility will be giving an online talk to introduce NISAR and its capabilities on Jan. 21. More info and registration below. ⚒️🧪
uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...
uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...
VAWS – Introducing NISAR: NASA’s Biggest Earth Observation Mission | ACCAP
Speaker: Franz Meyer, Professor, UAF Geophysical Institute, Chief Scientist, Alaska Satellite Facility About the webinar: Some of the recent earthquakes in Alaska and across the globe showed us how…
uaf-accap.org
January 8, 2026 at 8:38 PM
Want to learn more about NISAR (the new joint India/US synthetic aperture radar satellite mission)? Franz Meyer from UAF/Alaska Satellite Facility will be giving an online talk to introduce NISAR and its capabilities on Jan. 21. More info and registration below. ⚒️🧪
uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...
uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...
Reposted by Gareth Funning
“It is no small thing to have the opportunity and permission to use all one's strengths”
🧪
🧪
January 1, 2026 at 1:31 PM
“It is no small thing to have the opportunity and permission to use all one's strengths”
🧪
🧪
I overtook him in his box on wheels on my bike in Cambridge city centre
December 29, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I overtook him in his box on wheels on my bike in Cambridge city centre
Reposted by Gareth Funning
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
December 20, 2025 at 4:40 PM
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
Reposted by Gareth Funning
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
Reposted by Gareth Funning
Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.
December 17, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.
Sally emailed me about it!
December 16, 2025 at 4:45 AM
Sally emailed me about it!
Down with this sort of thing!
December 15, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Down with this sort of thing!
More like slowly shifting!
December 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
More like slowly shifting!
Attendees of #AGU25! If you are at a loose end at 3:05, come to room 357 and hear UCR postdoc Axel Periollat present our work on the interseismic locking of the Kamchatka subduction zone (as shown below) and its agreement with slip in the 1952 and 2025 earthquakes! Do come along!
December 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Attendees of #AGU25! If you are at a loose end at 3:05, come to room 357 and hear UCR postdoc Axel Periollat present our work on the interseismic locking of the Kamchatka subduction zone (as shown below) and its agreement with slip in the 1952 and 2025 earthquakes! Do come along!
May the printing gods ever be in your favor!
December 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
May the printing gods ever be in your favor!
There isn't even a ride at the end of this queue
December 15, 2025 at 4:40 PM
There isn't even a ride at the end of this queue
Well, there wasn't a line at the poster pick-up at least!
December 15, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Well, there wasn't a line at the poster pick-up at least!
(I mean. I plan to present it, if I get my name badge by then....)
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
(I mean. I plan to present it, if I get my name badge by then....)
GEOSCIENTISTS OF NEW ORLEANS: I will be presenting this poster (#0267) on our EarthScope-supported and quite awesome annual InSAR short course this afternoon. Do stop by! #AGU25
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
GEOSCIENTISTS OF NEW ORLEANS: I will be presenting this poster (#0267) on our EarthScope-supported and quite awesome annual InSAR short course this afternoon. Do stop by! #AGU25
Reposted by Gareth Funning
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
Reposted by Gareth Funning
wow who was he up against
December 5, 2025 at 11:22 PM
wow who was he up against
"Today was a day of note,
I gave the 40th and final lecture,
And now, I think I'll head downtown,
And drink a pitcher."
I gave the 40th and final lecture,
And now, I think I'll head downtown,
And drink a pitcher."
December 6, 2025 at 12:47 AM
"Today was a day of note,
I gave the 40th and final lecture,
And now, I think I'll head downtown,
And drink a pitcher."
I gave the 40th and final lecture,
And now, I think I'll head downtown,
And drink a pitcher."
Reposted by Gareth Funning
Monitoring crustal deformation: sometimes in the lithosphere, sometimes on your pie plate.
🍁🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from EarthScope!
🍁🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from EarthScope!
November 27, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Monitoring crustal deformation: sometimes in the lithosphere, sometimes on your pie plate.
🍁🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from EarthScope!
🍁🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from EarthScope!
If you want to go down the rabbit hole, there is a whole subreddit on the topic: www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAud...
I just got a cheap, prepaid Moto G phone that I am using as a dedicated music player – it has a headphone socket and a microSD slot...
I just got a cheap, prepaid Moto G phone that I am using as a dedicated music player – it has a headphone socket and a microSD slot...
DigitalAudioPlayer
All about DAPs: reviews, purchase recommendations, audio, sound, and relevant discussions.
www.reddit.com
November 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If you want to go down the rabbit hole, there is a whole subreddit on the topic: www.reddit.com/r/DigitalAud...
I just got a cheap, prepaid Moto G phone that I am using as a dedicated music player – it has a headphone socket and a microSD slot...
I just got a cheap, prepaid Moto G phone that I am using as a dedicated music player – it has a headphone socket and a microSD slot...
Reposted by Gareth Funning
Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.
Event Response Reports - COMET
25th November 2025: COMET Event Response Report 2.4 – Erta Ale/Hayli Gubbi Purpose/Caveats: This event response report was produced to assist situational awarenessand rapid response efforts. It repres...
comet.nerc.ac.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.
Reposted by Gareth Funning
Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8
tinyurl.com
November 24, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8