Reposted by Nate BogieJacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 01/06/2026I’ve been thinking a lot about the shifting baseline concept as applied to everyday life. People in their 20’s now have no memory of highly functional systems, products (from blenders to sweaters) that were so well made you could hand them down across generations, or even helpful customer service. 853052814
Reposted by Nate BogiePeter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 25/03/2026California's miserable snow season, and the rapid decline (black line) in snow water equivalent from the recent unprecedented heat wave in the west. This is #climatechange and the long predicted impacts of rising temperatures. 34725
Reposted by Nate BogieHigh Country News @highcountrynews.org · 05/01/2026The discovery that the continents are in continuous motion is fairly recent—dating back only to the late 1960s — and one woman was responsible for decoding what it meant for California and much of the West Coast. buff.ly/2vAwspHhcn.orgDrifters and the introduction of plate tectonics - High Country NewsHow the San Andreas fault and Tanya Atwater’s theory changed geology. 413444
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 19/12/2025In the age of AI paper writing, when I catch a few incorrect sentence structures of mis-conjugated verbs, it kind of warms my heart. The things that used to drive me insane now serve as little assurances of students' humanity. 030
Reposted by Nate BogieCalifornia Geological Survey @cageosurvey.bsky.social · 26/11/2025Are 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 09221
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 20/11/2025SJSU 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... 031
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 24/09/2025I 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. 010
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Yes, I now regret not reading for pleasure for ~6 years during grad school. Don't do that. Have a life outside of school, including personal/individual hobbies. 020
Reposted by Nate BogieBoris Behncke @borisetneo.bsky.social · 30/08/2025How 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 27839313
Reposted by Nate BogieBen Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 15/06/2025It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory. 238127902913
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 30/05/2025What 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. 000
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 28/05/2025www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...youtube.comLive from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestreamYouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream 010
Reposted by Nate BogieAnthony Ricciardi @ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 23/05/2025"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... 4339132
Reposted by Nate BogieOregon 🕎🎲 @oregonthedm.bsky.social · 09/04/2025Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen 8869112728454
Reposted by Nate BogieMatthias C. Rillig @mrillig.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Are you a researcher in Brazil who's interested in coming to Berlin to work on global change, soil or fungi? 078
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 27/01/2025Things 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.library.csuchico.edu 1132
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 12/12/2024If 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 042
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024As 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!! 060
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Make transit appealing, comfortable, accessible, people will ride. jalopnik.com/ridership-of...jalopnik.comRidership Of Bay Area Caltrain Is Up Drastically Following A Transition To New Electric TrainsIt’s not due to return-to-office mandates, either. Better trains and service are just more appealing 040
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 20/11/2024thanks @globalstewards.bsky.social I finally got in touch with someone - very random, I filled out a scathing review to UPS when they sent me a generic "can we please have your feedback" email from a separate, domestic package. They called me and they are working on it. Thanks for the suggestions. 000
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Its a local trend... www.kqed.org/news/1199721...kqed.orgMillbrae Voters Recall Council Members Who Didn’t Oppose Affordable Housing | KQEDStemming from a bitter debate over plans to turn a hotel into supportive housing, the recall effort against two Millbrae City Council members appears to have passed. 000
Reposted by Nate BogieDr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 11/10/2024Just 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 0112
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 02/10/2024The fact that R constantly is changing its geospatial packages and you are constantly having to relearn the same task in a new package with slight tweaks. I don't know if "real" GIS people even use R? It just integrates easily into my other analyses. 100
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 11/09/2024EGS does lead to induced seismicity, however... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Def. a disproportionate impact on local communities. But overall the system works quite well up there. I didn't watch the debate, however, so I may lack context for your skeet.agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com 000
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 30/08/2024UPS effectively has no way to contact them (waiting on phone for ~45 minutes to talk to someone who just gives me the number of the contractor there...who has created this problem) and a broken "help" link on UPS website. Anyone ever dealt with this. 000
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 30/08/2024This 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. 100
Reposted by Nate BogieEvilzenmuppet @zenmuppet.bsky.social · 22/08/2024Cue 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. 91003413
Reposted by Nate BogieBen Maas @masbenmaas.bsky.social · 14/08/2024SE 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. 3134
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 23/05/2024As 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?youtube.comGroundwater Flow Demonstration ModelI was commissioned to build this model in support of a presentation about geotechnical engineering. The goal is to illustrate the flow paths that groundwater... 520
Reposted by Nate BogieSquirrel the Riveted @rivetedsquirrel.bsky.social · 16/05/2024We need more goats 021
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 13/05/2024Checking 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! 020
Reposted by Nate BogieAyo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 16/04/2024“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 242110491
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 01/03/2024Just what we need for the safety committe (which I serve on)... students 15 feet off the ground on a ladder managing the heavy slug lol. Thanks again for your insight! 110
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 01/03/2024#1: cut off ~2 feet of casing during construction of a new building and lowering of grade nearby (and closing off access to wells for 5 years) #2: There are known artesian conditions in the area :) I had not had access to these wells during the construction. Thanks! 010
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 29/02/2024my thought was that we could probably manage to get data from a slug test when we pull the slug out, but not when we put it in. 110
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 29/02/2024Thank you, @tempest! I should have clarified, this is for my class, historically, we do all of the above! I have historic data for constant Q and step drawdown pump tests as well as slug tests. We will be running tests this spring, but this is the first time I have encountered artesian conditions. 210
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 29/02/2024It is 2" PVC unconsolidated sediments screened over 10ft in gravelly sand and sand, interbedded sandy and confining units above. TD = 78 ft. K = 38 ft per day approx. I have a ~3" OD pump that we put down a similar 4" well ~10 feet away, so we can run pump tests. Just not so sure of slug test. 100
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 26/02/2024Hello 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? 201
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Enjoy this! But be careful, in year 5 I am reaping what I sewed after getting very excited to do research after COVID and a little baby with 5 disparate projects and students (UG and Masters only in my case) in various stages of completing, quitting, struggling, or getting sidetracked. 000
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 23/01/2024Well then...strikes work. #labor #strike #livingwage abc7.com/cal-state-un... 030
Reposted by Nate BogieKevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17/01/2024This description of the episode totally doesn't do it justice; it's a WILD ride through house fires, Bangladeshi political repression, the courage and persistence of migrant workers, a serial social entrepreneur's quest to support an in-progress mobility revolution, and even some adorbz kids 2218
Nate Bogie @h2ogie.bsky.social · 19/12/2023The next best part of the Iceland volcano livestream is the soundtrack: www.ruv.is/english/2023... Stevie Wonder, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, and what must be some legit Icelandic popular/folk music. Stay safe out there! 010
Reposted by Nate BogieCallan Bentley @callanbentley.bsky.social · 12/12/2023AGU crowd, remember that there is a suite of awesome field trips available to you if you need a break from the Moscone Center... www.agu.org/learn-and-de...agu.orgStreetcar2SubductionAs part of its Centennial, AGU has taken what once was a print guide to the geology of the San Francisco Bay Area and turned it into a digital experience through Google Earth. <br /> 0114