Nate Bogie
@h2ogie.bsky.social
Teaching hydro(geo)logy, loving of soil, plants, ocean, music. Working in Western US and West Africa. Making the academic and geoscience tent bigger.
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Are you traveling over the holiday weekend?
Be sure to check out some of California’s “Geo Gems” - notable geologic features in California state parks. These geologic wonders illustrate the legacy and continuing geologic evolution of California.
www.parks.ca.gov?page_id=29631
Be sure to check out some of California’s “Geo Gems” - notable geologic features in California state parks. These geologic wonders illustrate the legacy and continuing geologic evolution of California.
www.parks.ca.gov?page_id=29631
November 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Are you traveling over the holiday weekend?
Be sure to check out some of California’s “Geo Gems” - notable geologic features in California state parks. These geologic wonders illustrate the legacy and continuing geologic evolution of California.
www.parks.ca.gov?page_id=29631
Be sure to check out some of California’s “Geo Gems” - notable geologic features in California state parks. These geologic wonders illustrate the legacy and continuing geologic evolution of California.
www.parks.ca.gov?page_id=29631
SJSU Geology is offering need-based scholarships of up to $15k/year for undergraduates to come study Geology or Earth Systems Science with us. The application deadline for Fall 26 is soon (12/1), but wanted to share this opportunity with any prospective students. sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/s-s...
November 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
SJSU Geology is offering need-based scholarships of up to $15k/year for undergraduates to come study Geology or Earth Systems Science with us. The application deadline for Fall 26 is soon (12/1), but wanted to share this opportunity with any prospective students. sites.google.com/sjsu.edu/s-s...
I am not a super fan of AI by any means but two things I love: copy and paste formatted citation and it will make you a bibtex entry, make a picture of any data table into a .csv file in seconds.
September 24, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am not a super fan of AI by any means but two things I love: copy and paste formatted citation and it will make you a bibtex entry, make a picture of any data table into a .csv file in seconds.
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How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
August 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording
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It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.
I count 49 news headlines on the NYT mobile app home page right now, not including opinion, sports or cooking. None of them are about the massive protests yesterday.
June 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.
What masochist didn't put sequential page numbers or links in the table of contents of the NSF PAPPG? Sorting through over 200 pages for the correct section and sub section is making my brain hurt unnecessarily.
May 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
What masochist didn't put sequential page numbers or links in the table of contents of the NSF PAPPG? Sorting through over 200 pages for the correct section and sub section is making my brain hurt unnecessarily.
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"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
May 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
This is insane, it is a race to the bottom.
🔔BREAKING🔔
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.
This is censorship disguised as oversight.
Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 4:44 AM
This is insane, it is a race to the bottom.
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Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
April 9, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen
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Are you a researcher in Brazil who's interested in coming to Berlin to work on global change, soil or fungi?
Olá, Brasil! 🇧🇷 Interested in a research stay in Germany? Are you currently a postdoc at a uni or research institution in Brazil? Our CAPES #Fellowship offers you funding for a #research stay for 6-24 mth! Join our info event on 18 Feb! www.humboldt-foundation.de/en/connect/i...
February 14, 2025 at 6:12 AM
Are you a researcher in Brazil who's interested in coming to Berlin to work on global change, soil or fungi?
Things are scary, but make sure you vet your info. Don't forget the CRAAP test:
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
I teach it to all of my students.
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
I teach it to all of my students.
January 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Things are scary, but make sure you vet your info. Don't forget the CRAAP test:
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
I teach it to all of my students.
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
I teach it to all of my students.
If you're at #AGU24 and you want to learn about how we can use semi-continuous isotopes to better understand aspen and spruce water use in an alpine system, check out Raymond Hess's poster: H43M-1043 with @matthiasprenger.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 5:21 PM
If you're at #AGU24 and you want to learn about how we can use semi-continuous isotopes to better understand aspen and spruce water use in an alpine system, check out Raymond Hess's poster: H43M-1043 with @matthiasprenger.bsky.social
As a member of a geology dept. in a geologically interesting/active place, this earthquake/potential tsunami is all over local news (exhaustively), ppl texting me with q's about what to do. Yet, students enrolling to study earth sciences in decline. We need good people to study this stuff!!
Earthquake Q&A thread 🧵
Q1: Why didn’t this earthquake generate a tsunami?
A1: This earthquake moved the ground sideways. Underwater quakes where the ground moves up are the ones that usually generate tsunamis. This video explains.
(This is an older video so it sadly doesn’t have captions)
Q1: Why didn’t this earthquake generate a tsunami?
A1: This earthquake moved the ground sideways. Underwater quakes where the ground moves up are the ones that usually generate tsunamis. This video explains.
(This is an older video so it sadly doesn’t have captions)
December 6, 2024 at 3:23 AM
As a member of a geology dept. in a geologically interesting/active place, this earthquake/potential tsunami is all over local news (exhaustively), ppl texting me with q's about what to do. Yet, students enrolling to study earth sciences in decline. We need good people to study this stuff!!
Make transit appealing, comfortable, accessible, people will ride. jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
Ridership Of Bay Area Caltrain Is Up Drastically Following A Transition To New Electric Trains
It’s not due to return-to-office mandates, either. Better trains and service are just more appealing
jalopnik.com
November 30, 2024 at 5:31 PM
Make transit appealing, comfortable, accessible, people will ride. jalopnik.com/ridership-of...
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Just as hurricanes haul water from the oceans onto land in the hydrologic cycle,
Salmon haul nutrients from the ocean back onto mountains in the nutrient cycle.
The Great Migration of millions of animals in the Serengeti is another large nutrient cycle
Salmon haul nutrients from the ocean back onto mountains in the nutrient cycle.
The Great Migration of millions of animals in the Serengeti is another large nutrient cycle
Spent the morning on the Salmon River informally surveying spawned-out chinook carcasses — nature's fertilizer packets, delivering the Pacific Ocean's nitrogen and phosphorus to the coastal northwestern forests that will in turn nourish their fry.
October 10, 2024 at 11:01 PM
Just as hurricanes haul water from the oceans onto land in the hydrologic cycle,
Salmon haul nutrients from the ocean back onto mountains in the nutrient cycle.
The Great Migration of millions of animals in the Serengeti is another large nutrient cycle
Salmon haul nutrients from the ocean back onto mountains in the nutrient cycle.
The Great Migration of millions of animals in the Serengeti is another large nutrient cycle
This is a long shot, but I have a small shipment of research equipment sent to a collaborator being held up in customs in Côte d'Ivoire by UPS asking for paperwork that has never existed.
August 30, 2024 at 11:20 AM
This is a long shot, but I have a small shipment of research equipment sent to a collaborator being held up in customs in Côte d'Ivoire by UPS asking for paperwork that has never existed.
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Cue me trotting out the stats again: over 300,000 people work in US libraries. We are in every state. Coal mining, by contrast, employs less than 50,000 people across a few states. Politicians don't promote libraries because nobody gets rich off owning them but we are everywhere.
August 22, 2024 at 5:36 PM
Cue me trotting out the stats again: over 300,000 people work in US libraries. We are in every state. Coal mining, by contrast, employs less than 50,000 people across a few states. Politicians don't promote libraries because nobody gets rich off owning them but we are everywhere.
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SE Minnesota has a lot of agriculture (livestock & corn are the main culprits) as well as a lot of karst. That is a TERRIBLE combination for water quality.
Livestock generates manure. Corn requires a lot of fertilizer. Both manure & fertilizer are overapplied, causing massive water quality issues.
Livestock generates manure. Corn requires a lot of fertilizer. Both manure & fertilizer are overapplied, causing massive water quality issues.
In case you were wondering what data/map I was rescuing from the depths of old GIS file despair, it was this map.
Areas in red & orange are classified as having karst. Areas in green do not have karst. The black hatch markings are places that have agriculture and karst (not good for water quality)
Areas in red & orange are classified as having karst. Areas in green do not have karst. The black hatch markings are places that have agriculture and karst (not good for water quality)
August 13, 2024 at 11:09 PM
SE Minnesota has a lot of agriculture (livestock & corn are the main culprits) as well as a lot of karst. That is a TERRIBLE combination for water quality.
Livestock generates manure. Corn requires a lot of fertilizer. Both manure & fertilizer are overapplied, causing massive water quality issues.
Livestock generates manure. Corn requires a lot of fertilizer. Both manure & fertilizer are overapplied, causing massive water quality issues.
As I wrap up my hydrogeology course, question for you hydrogeologists and civil engineers...how useful do you think teaching flownets is? I feel like conceptually you can understand subsurface flow with a nice demo like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ezo.... do you use flownets?
Groundwater Flow Demonstration Model
I was commissioned to build this model in support of a presentation about geotechnical engineering. The goal is to illustrate the flow paths that groundwater...
www.youtube.com
May 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
As I wrap up my hydrogeology course, question for you hydrogeologists and civil engineers...how useful do you think teaching flownets is? I feel like conceptually you can understand subsurface flow with a nice demo like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ezo.... do you use flownets?
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We need more goats
This is a map showing "number of goats per square kilometer in 2015", which reveals a very clear "Goat Belt" across Africa, and the "Circle of Goats" in Asia.
Also, India has to be at least 30% goats by population.
Source: www.fao.org/livestock-sy...
Also, India has to be at least 30% goats by population.
Source: www.fao.org/livestock-sy...
May 16, 2024 at 6:41 PM
We need more goats
Checking my very simple exam question through ChatGPT relating dry and wet masses of a soil core and it cannot get it correct. Decided to present the AI answer and make the exam question "How did ChatGPT get the calculation wrong?" Fun!
May 13, 2024 at 5:19 PM
Checking my very simple exam question through ChatGPT relating dry and wet masses of a soil core and it cannot get it correct. Decided to present the AI answer and make the exam question "How did ChatGPT get the calculation wrong?" Fun!
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“We have to get children back outside and playing again!”
Sweetie, your generation made it illegal for children to go outside unaccompanied. Your generation sells military tanks as “cars” and your generation removed urban centers and places the population in strip malls
Sweetie, your generation made it illegal for children to go outside unaccompanied. Your generation sells military tanks as “cars” and your generation removed urban centers and places the population in strip malls
April 16, 2024 at 8:28 PM
“We have to get children back outside and playing again!”
Sweetie, your generation made it illegal for children to go outside unaccompanied. Your generation sells military tanks as “cars” and your generation removed urban centers and places the population in strip malls
Sweetie, your generation made it illegal for children to go outside unaccompanied. Your generation sells military tanks as “cars” and your generation removed urban centers and places the population in strip malls
Hello hydrogeologists, anyone ever done a slug test on a well with artesian conditions (~60 cm above top of casing)? Is it possible? Any resources you know of?
February 26, 2024 at 6:47 PM
Hello hydrogeologists, anyone ever done a slug test on a well with artesian conditions (~60 cm above top of casing)? Is it possible? Any resources you know of?
January 23, 2024 at 6:11 AM