Whimsical Wavelengths
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I Dr Jeffrey Zurek (volcanologist/geophysicist) am the host for this science podcast whimsical wavelengths! Also juggling day job, fatherhood & a “normal” life 😅. Pod found everywhere!
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I am Dr Jeffrey Zurek and your host of Whimsical Wavelengths! A #science #podcast!
Brining some social media to here to hopefully reach more people offering a #scientific escape from a messed up world with scientific dad #jokes and #puns
“Whimsical wavelengths” everywhere pods are found
Brining some social media to here to hopefully reach more people offering a #scientific escape from a messed up world with scientific dad #jokes and #puns
“Whimsical wavelengths” everywhere pods are found
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Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Two miles of ice core on the shelf at our national ice core facility in Lakewood, Colorado. The WAIS Divide core from West Antarctica is a 3400m long (deepest US core, 2nd deepest ice core ever) 68,000 year old record of high resolution climate.
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Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
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• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the *2nd* lowest on record (JAXA data)
• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
• about 770,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,390,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,010,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 2,530,000 km² below the 1980s mean
More zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
⚒️🧪People fear the void — the dark nothingness where meaning dissolves.
Geophysicists don’t.
Geophysicists label it “low sensitivity” and immediately argue about whether the prior was too restrictive.
Join me for this EP! We get #nerdy about #geophysics #scicomm
open.spotify.com/episode/07ME...
Geophysicists don’t.
Geophysicists label it “low sensitivity” and immediately argue about whether the prior was too restrictive.
Join me for this EP! We get #nerdy about #geophysics #scicomm
open.spotify.com/episode/07ME...
Machine Learning Meets Geophysics: Image Segmentation and Inversion Tools with Johnathan Kuttai
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November 25, 2025 at 1:31 AM
⚒️🧪People fear the void — the dark nothingness where meaning dissolves.
Geophysicists don’t.
Geophysicists label it “low sensitivity” and immediately argue about whether the prior was too restrictive.
Join me for this EP! We get #nerdy about #geophysics #scicomm
open.spotify.com/episode/07ME...
Geophysicists don’t.
Geophysicists label it “low sensitivity” and immediately argue about whether the prior was too restrictive.
Join me for this EP! We get #nerdy about #geophysics #scicomm
open.spotify.com/episode/07ME...
1/3🧪⚒️New Whimsical Wavelengths ep! 🎧
We dig into how ML + #geophysics intersect: #image #segmentation, synthetic training #data, & why inversion problems have ♾️ possible solutions. Need #physics + constraints to reduce them to fit #geoscience
Research-soon published:
www.earthdoc.org/content/pape...
We dig into how ML + #geophysics intersect: #image #segmentation, synthetic training #data, & why inversion problems have ♾️ possible solutions. Need #physics + constraints to reduce them to fit #geoscience
Research-soon published:
www.earthdoc.org/content/pape...
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
1/3🧪⚒️New Whimsical Wavelengths ep! 🎧
We dig into how ML + #geophysics intersect: #image #segmentation, synthetic training #data, & why inversion problems have ♾️ possible solutions. Need #physics + constraints to reduce them to fit #geoscience
Research-soon published:
www.earthdoc.org/content/pape...
We dig into how ML + #geophysics intersect: #image #segmentation, synthetic training #data, & why inversion problems have ♾️ possible solutions. Need #physics + constraints to reduce them to fit #geoscience
Research-soon published:
www.earthdoc.org/content/pape...
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Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
November 10, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
Before birds ruled the skies, pterosaurs did. A newly described Australian species — Haliskia peterseni — offers a fresh look at how these ancient reptiles once soared over the Early Cretaceous seas, revealing more about flight, evolution, and life in a vanished world.
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This is a horror story for Jamaica. Climate change is making storms like #HurricaneMelissa more intense.
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
October 28, 2025 at 10:40 AM
This is a horror story for Jamaica. Climate change is making storms like #HurricaneMelissa more intense.
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_...
🧪Plastic and the environment — and what you think you know.
It’s not as simple as “good” or “bad.” The first plastics were made to solve real engineering problems, not create new ones.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#Science #Podcast #Plastic #Environment
It’s not as simple as “good” or “bad.” The first plastics were made to solve real engineering problems, not create new ones.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#Science #Podcast #Plastic #Environment
Plastic, science, and environmental trade offs - interviewing an industrial scientist
Podcast Episode · Whimsical Wavelengths - A Science Podcast · 2025-10-27 · 59m
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October 27, 2025 at 5:58 PM
🧪Plastic and the environment — and what you think you know.
It’s not as simple as “good” or “bad.” The first plastics were made to solve real engineering problems, not create new ones.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#Science #Podcast #Plastic #Environment
It’s not as simple as “good” or “bad.” The first plastics were made to solve real engineering problems, not create new ones.
🎧 Listen on Apple Podcasts: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/p...
#Science #Podcast #Plastic #Environment
I have a data conundrum. The podcast in on a ranked Apple List! Amazing! In Indonesia 🇮🇩! The issue? I don’t have any data suggesting I have any listeners from there!! It is very strange and I don’t know what it means….
October 22, 2025 at 9:25 AM
I have a data conundrum. The podcast in on a ranked Apple List! Amazing! In Indonesia 🇮🇩! The issue? I don’t have any data suggesting I have any listeners from there!! It is very strange and I don’t know what it means….
UVIC Alumni Association put together a wonderful profile of my (the host) career thus far!
www.uvic.ca/alumni/read-...
www.uvic.ca/alumni/read-...
The sounds of science - Alumni - University of Victoria
Geophysicist Jeffrey Zurek became hooked on Earth science, particularly the mysteries of volcanoes, as a child. Now, he shares his passion for discovery in a lively science podcast.
www.uvic.ca
October 15, 2025 at 4:20 AM
UVIC Alumni Association put together a wonderful profile of my (the host) career thus far!
www.uvic.ca/alumni/read-...
www.uvic.ca/alumni/read-...
🧪🔭1/3 we’re diving into the deep end of the universe: supermassive black holes!
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
October 14, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🧪🔭1/3 we’re diving into the deep end of the universe: supermassive black holes!
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
Dr. James Chan, a postdoctoral researcher at the American Museum of Natural History and City University of New York, comes to explore the strange physics and luminous surroundings of the darkest objects in the cosmos.
Got the next few episodes loaded and ready to go and now I the host am off to Saudi Arabia! Day job time in Geophysics! Hopefully new pics on geology and the like in a few weeks!
October 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Got the next few episodes loaded and ready to go and now I the host am off to Saudi Arabia! Day job time in Geophysics! Hopefully new pics on geology and the like in a few weeks!
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The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous:
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
www.politico.com
September 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The Department of Energy has added these terms to its growing “list of words to avoid” because words are dangerous:
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
climate change
green
decarbonization
emissions
energy transition
sustainability
sustainable
clean energy
dirty energy
carbon footprint
CO₂ footprint
tax breaks
tax credits
subsidies
1/3 I scream U scream we all scream for Ice cream #science?
🕘for sweet delicious 🧪delivered here
#love the breath here. We investigate the 🧪that goes into the greatest frozen dessert🍦!🍦like other materials (like magma) melt, freeze & deform in complex ways depending on structures within the material
🕘for sweet delicious 🧪delivered here
#love the breath here. We investigate the 🧪that goes into the greatest frozen dessert🍦!🍦like other materials (like magma) melt, freeze & deform in complex ways depending on structures within the material
September 29, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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A #physicist’s guide to ice cream
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A physicist’s guide to ice cream: the complex science behind one of the world’s most popular desserts – Physics World
From foaming to phase transitions, Douglas Goff explains the physics behind a perfect scoop
physicsworld.com
May 16, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Is a scientific #oxymoron on your #crisis bingo card for the year? Basaltic plinian eruptions are rare and weird. (Ie clickbait headline for something interesting but rare enough not to worry about)🧪⚒️🌋
Learn about them and Masaya Volcano on this week's episode!
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Learn about them and Masaya Volcano on this week's episode!
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Masaya Volcano is a Strange Volcano - The science Journey Towards Understanding Masaya's Basaltic Plinian Eruptions
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September 18, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Is a scientific #oxymoron on your #crisis bingo card for the year? Basaltic plinian eruptions are rare and weird. (Ie clickbait headline for something interesting but rare enough not to worry about)🧪⚒️🌋
Learn about them and Masaya Volcano on this week's episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/0vmK...
Learn about them and Masaya Volcano on this week's episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/0vmK...
🧪⚒️🌋1/2 #bluesky Time for Season 2! Time for Basaltic plinian eruptions, melt inclusions, viscosity and more. Today we going to head into one of my papers so volcanology!
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
September 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
🧪⚒️🌋1/2 #bluesky Time for Season 2! Time for Basaltic plinian eruptions, melt inclusions, viscosity and more. Today we going to head into one of my papers so volcanology!
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
When planning my #PhD, I wanted to do more at Masaya #Volcano. Masaya is #complicated...
#beliveitornot #scicomm
1/2⚒️Friend of the pod, Dr. Rebecca Pearce gave a TEDx Talk on an exciting frontier of 🧪: ultradeep #geothermal.
Tapping into the heat beneath our 👣 — #energy that’s always on, #renewable, & able to provide baseload #electricity for generations.
Watch her talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDe...
Tapping into the heat beneath our 👣 — #energy that’s always on, #renewable, & able to provide baseload #electricity for generations.
Watch her talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDe...
Geothermal energy: Hope for our energy crisis lies inside the earth | Dr. Rebecca Pearce | TEDxRRU
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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September 12, 2025 at 2:02 AM
1/2⚒️Friend of the pod, Dr. Rebecca Pearce gave a TEDx Talk on an exciting frontier of 🧪: ultradeep #geothermal.
Tapping into the heat beneath our 👣 — #energy that’s always on, #renewable, & able to provide baseload #electricity for generations.
Watch her talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDe...
Tapping into the heat beneath our 👣 — #energy that’s always on, #renewable, & able to provide baseload #electricity for generations.
Watch her talk here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDe...
1/2⚒️🌋 Season 2 starts on 15th! I feel a bit hopelessness with what is taking place South of me. The anti 🧪actions and rhetoric … I am political. The pod? Not so much. It’s about the 🧪process & repeatable results with researchers that did the work or through historical storytelling. So if you are a
September 11, 2025 at 1:31 AM
1/2⚒️🌋 Season 2 starts on 15th! I feel a bit hopelessness with what is taking place South of me. The anti 🧪actions and rhetoric … I am political. The pod? Not so much. It’s about the 🧪process & repeatable results with researchers that did the work or through historical storytelling. So if you are a
⚒️🌋I was a guest on a podcast! On
Going In Blind with Zach Tidwell
Not a science podcast but we talked about 🧪. The university system and the Tenure system, volcanology, water in the mantel. And more
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/4...
Zach Tidwell is blind, & a US veteran & I recommend this pod!
Going In Blind with Zach Tidwell
Not a science podcast but we talked about 🧪. The university system and the Tenure system, volcanology, water in the mantel. And more
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/4...
Zach Tidwell is blind, & a US veteran & I recommend this pod!
#44 Dr. Jeff Zurek: Geophysicist and Volcanologist
Podcast Episode · Going in Blind with Zach Tidwell · 2025-09-05 · 1h 26m
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September 5, 2025 at 7:43 PM
⚒️🌋I was a guest on a podcast! On
Going In Blind with Zach Tidwell
Not a science podcast but we talked about 🧪. The university system and the Tenure system, volcanology, water in the mantel. And more
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/4...
Zach Tidwell is blind, & a US veteran & I recommend this pod!
Going In Blind with Zach Tidwell
Not a science podcast but we talked about 🧪. The university system and the Tenure system, volcanology, water in the mantel. And more
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/4...
Zach Tidwell is blind, & a US veteran & I recommend this pod!
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Shared on behalf of the USGS: HVO Volcano Watch for September 4, 2025
#volcano
"Dick Fiske, one of HVO's very best"
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#volcano
"Dick Fiske, one of HVO's very best"
www.usgs.gov/observatorie...
Volcano Watch
Volcano Watch is a weekly article and activity update written by U.S. Geological Survey Hawaiian Volcano Observatory scientists and affiliates.
www.usgs.gov
September 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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While sea ice melt accelerated last month across the Beaufort Sea, higher areas of sea-ice concentration continued in the East Siberian Sea. No new records will be set again this year
+ Data: nsidc.org/data/g02202/...
+ Concentration = fraction of sea ice
+ Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
+ Data: nsidc.org/data/g02202/...
+ Concentration = fraction of sea ice
+ Graphic from zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...
September 5, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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Incredible story about an ant that lays eggs of another species (!) to create cloned males (!!) that go on to father all of the workers in the colony (!!!) www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
Queen ant makes males of another species for daughters to mate with
Bizarrely, Iberian harvester ant queens lay eggs that turn into male builder harvester ants, and some of her offspring are hybrids of the two species
www.newscientist.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Incredible story about an ant that lays eggs of another species (!) to create cloned males (!!) that go on to father all of the workers in the colony (!!!) www.newscientist.com/article/2494...
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If all of your car’s electric windows except the driver’s suddenly stop working, and regardless of the dire repair scenarios that Teh Google provides, check to see if you accidentally engaged the child safety window lock before taking it to your mechanic.
Trust me on this . . .
Trust me on this . . .
September 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
If all of your car’s electric windows except the driver’s suddenly stop working, and regardless of the dire repair scenarios that Teh Google provides, check to see if you accidentally engaged the child safety window lock before taking it to your mechanic.
Trust me on this . . .
Trust me on this . . .
1/2 🧪⚒️Why is this happening? The data is clear. Global climate is changing at a speed that is due to us humans. And it will not be good for us. (that is a mild way of putting it)
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I see the same🤬parioted by the Fraser Institute. 🍁has it's anti science people too. More
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I see the same🤬parioted by the Fraser Institute. 🍁has it's anti science people too. More
‘Not scientifically credible’: Scientists repudiate Trump administration climate report
A group of more than 85 leading climate researchers on Tuesday publicly repudiated a Trump administration report that questions the severity of global warming.
www.latimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:18 PM
1/2 🧪⚒️Why is this happening? The data is clear. Global climate is changing at a speed that is due to us humans. And it will not be good for us. (that is a mild way of putting it)
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I see the same🤬parioted by the Fraser Institute. 🍁has it's anti science people too. More
www.latimes.com/environment/...
I see the same🤬parioted by the Fraser Institute. 🍁has it's anti science people too. More
1/3 Last encore ep before season 2 starts in 2 weeks! Here the pod showed its fitness with im-peck-able wordplay. It is for the 🐦s. At least those which have a raven-ous appetite for 📖
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If you like 🧪listen to the #podcast!
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If you like 🧪listen to the #podcast!
Whimsical Wavelengths - A Science Podcast
Science Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A whimsical journey through science topics hosted by Dr Jeffrey Zurek, who is a volcanologist and geophysicist. A passion for science communication, teaching, hear...
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September 1, 2025 at 4:08 PM
1/3 Last encore ep before season 2 starts in 2 weeks! Here the pod showed its fitness with im-peck-able wordplay. It is for the 🐦s. At least those which have a raven-ous appetite for 📖
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
If you like 🧪listen to the #podcast!
podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/w...
If you like 🧪listen to the #podcast!