Reposted by Jenny BowerNate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 22/09/2025So 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! 14510
Reposted by Jenny Bowersteven t. piantadosi @spiantado.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country! 03620
Reposted by Jenny BowerMargaret Fraiser @margaretfraiser.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Please 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”. 31277185
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Happy National Maple Syrup Day! Celebrate by celebrating soil calcium biogeochemistry—an oldie but a goodie: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4...research.fs.usda.govResponse of sugar maple to calcium addition to northern hardwood forest | US Forest Service Research and Development 010
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 07/12/2024Saturday recreational tree climb. Trees are magic 041
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Well played, Pantone, we see you naming a 2.5YR 5/4 color of the year for #WorldSoilDay 030
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Here’s another spodic soil. Most consistent brown at depth I have ever seen! The end of the tape measure is 83 cm, so the spodic horizon is >50 cm thick. This abundance of spodic materials without an E horizon results from lateral podzolization 020
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Where 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! 1346
Reposted by Jenny BowerLauren Magliozzi, PhD 💧 @limnologylauren.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Here'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 0576
Reposted by Jenny BowerToby Kiers @tobykiers.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Soil 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. 06015
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Happy 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 0162
Reposted by Jenny BowerCaitlin Hodges, Soil Scientist @kanhapludult.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Happy 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) 0112
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Duke Energy is the third largest emitter of GHG in the nation and has fought every effort to decarbonize. I hope others follow suit 000
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I missed this post genre, it hits the same dopamine receptors as being in the woods with other naturalists 030
Reposted by Jenny BowerDr. Merritt Rae Turetsky @queenofpeat.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Healthy 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! 128284
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Sunday afternoon at the game lands. Highlights: Cortinarius caperatus, strongly expressed subangular blocky peds in a roadcut, and fall colors of sweetgum and muscadine. 010
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 23/11/2024My 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...en.m.wikipedia.orgShalane Flanagan - Wikipedia 020
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Oh fascinating, I see. I suppose I like AC then, as much as one can 😬 110
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Nice profile! If the second horizon really has been modified by significant losses of fines, I might consider an E horizon. A lumbric E? Just trying to be spicy here. 130
Reposted by Jenny BowerNate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 17/11/2024ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P 46929
Reposted by Jenny BowerSoil Scientist 🇺🇦 @dylanbeaudette.bsky.social · 16/11/2024A 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. 1163
Reposted by Jenny BowerNate Looker @regolithhealth.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity 072
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Weird coming from a former Missourian, but this was my first Mollisol! The rocks were the best part. 000
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Last stop, a Mollisol formed in chalk, which dissolved and reprecipitated as laminar caps on the weathered chalk fragments. Marty Rabenhorst gave an excellent explanation and showed these features. The roots in the weathered planes of the chalk fragments made lovely patterns. 100
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The next stop was an Inceptisol formed in a volcanic basalt mound. The saprolite pieces are visible and increase with depth—in fact, the leaders analyzed the chemistry of the saprolite and fine material separately 🤘🏻 There was a petrocalcic horizon as well as carbonate between the saprolite pieces. 100
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 15/11/2024The 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 💕 182
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Hot topic of conversation: what pedogenic properties separate subaqueous soils from sediments? Coprogenous materials, in-situ framboidal pyrite, organic matter accumulation… 120
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024My uncle gifted me Wiggies and boy howdy, hard to beat as a gift for the bog-inclined and subaqueous-curious. 130
Jenny Bower @geodermatologist.bsky.social · 08/11/2024Wet times at the pedology field tour Guadalupe River Delta stop. Highlights: subaqueous soils, slickensides, and mollic epipedons #pedology #SSSA 184
