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Nate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!

Cover of Soils and Vegetation of Hummocky Terrain, a soil survey report for the Northwest Territories published in 1974. Stylized landscapes, flora, fauna, and a human face in red, yellow, and brown.

Soils of the Nechako-Francois Lake Area, soil survey report for British Columbia, 1974. Black line drawing of bare (possibly tilled) land in foreground, with mixed conifer-deciduous forest, a stream, and forested mountains in background. Yellowish green background.

Pédologie du comté de Portneuf, Quebec, 1976. Three vertical columns, with soil profiles (and/or hillslope cross-sections?) to the left and right and a line drawing of a shovel and trowel under the sun.

Étude pédologique du comté d'Arthabaska, Quebec, 1984. Highly geometric vegetation (slabs of grass) underlain by granular soil under a pale blue sky.

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steven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country!

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Margaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Happy National Maple Syrup Day! Celebrate by celebrating soil calcium biogeochemistry—an oldie but a goodie: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4...

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Response of sugar maple to calcium addition to northern hardwood forest | US Forest Service Research and Development

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Saturday recreational tree climb. Trees are magic

View from a tree showing limbs and a roof

Two people in a tree looking over houses

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Well played, Pantone, we see you naming a 2.5YR 5/4 color of the year for #WorldSoilDay

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Where are all the podzols for #WorldSoilDay? Here’s one from a 200-year soil study in the Green Mountains, Vermont. The field tech was so proud of this pit—check the right angle on the side!

A Spodosol soil pit exposure showing brightly defined horizons, including an O, E, Bhs, Bs, down to a BC and C

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Lauren Magliozzi, PhD 💧 @limnologylauren.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Here's some gorgeous wetland soil for #worldsoilday! This sample's got some ~Fe-bulous~ redoximorphic features & is a nice example of how wetlands paint with iron oxides 🧪🌎⚒️ #soilscience

A soil sample displaying distinctive redoximorphic features: bright orange patches and mottling caused by iron oxidation, indicating periodic saturation typical of wetland soils.

A Munsell soil color chart page labeled 10YR, displaying a grid of soil color swatches ranging from pale yellow-brown to dark reddish-brown. The swatches are arranged with increasing darkness vertically and increasing color intensity horizontally.

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Toby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs. Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico. Happy World Soils Day.

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happy World Soil Day! This year’s theme is “caring for soils”. We are all soil stewards. Here’s a soil I’m trying to build structure in through OM additions and de-lawnification

A soil core showing surface organic matter enrichment

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Caitlin Hodges, Soil Scientist @kanhapludult.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Happy world soils day! To celebrate, take a look at this soil profile that lives in my brain rent-free. It is an alluvial soil that has interacted with sulfide- and methane-rich, anoxic groundwater. These interactions have resulted in a lot of cool mineral transformations (and pretty colors)

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I missed this post genre, it hits the same dopamine receptors as being in the woods with other naturalists

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thank you to farm workers for our food

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Dr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Healthy peatlands are one of our best climate heroes, storing carbon for thousands of years. Healthy peatlands are gloriously mucky. Drained peatlands might grow food for some time but are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Keep bogs wet - please share!

Drained peatland in Iceland with a large drainage ditch filled with water and some sheep.

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Sunday afternoon at the game lands. Highlights: Cortinarius caperatus, strongly expressed subangular blocky peds in a roadcut, and fall colors of sweetgum and muscadine.

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

My wife and I signed up for a neighborhood turkey trot. The proceeds go to the food pantry, and they give you $50 if you beat the record time. I’m losing my mind, the record is held by Shalane Flanagan en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...

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Shalane Flanagan - Wikipedia

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Nate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

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Soil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

A fun way to start on a new platform: obscure memes related to a specific corner of a discipline that I didn't even know existed until college--soil science.

a goofy meme depicting two versions of the same person, one in a feather suit, the other wearing plain clothes

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Nate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity

Dark brown soil aggregates from two horizons, likely transported material over the original soil surface

An earthworm channel within rotten rock (saprolite), filled in with material from surface horizons (krotovina)

My adopted street dog Alpaca and partner Juliana on a slope above exposed soil. Reddish-brown subsoil to the right could be a pocket of weathered volcanic ash, surrounded by soils derived from sedimentary rock.

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

The second day of the #pedology tour at #SSSA led us to a Vertisol formed in alluvial sediments. The carbonate masses at the base of the pit were composed of gorgeous well-formed crystals. Check the carbonate precipitated on top of laminae in picture 2 💕

Carbonate precipitated over alluvial laminae

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Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

Wet times at the pedology field tour Guadalupe River Delta stop. Highlights: subaqueous soils, slickensides, and mollic epipedons #pedology #SSSA

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