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Peter Reiners

@peterreiners.bsky.social

Geoscientist passionate about wonder, awe, solutions for good, rock ‘n’ roll, and not putting up with BS.

Peter Reiners @peterreiners.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My doggo made a friend in the backyard today. Lots of dramatic hissing. I’ve probably met them before but I haven’t memorized the patterns yet. April/May is prime Gila Monster time!

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Peter Reiners @peterreiners.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

West side of Huachuca Mtns. See the relatively modest border fence, one of the last places allowing wildlife crossings between Arizona and Mexico (about 1/3 of way from bottom of pic)? Enjoy because it’s about to be replaced with a massive militarized, idiotic, and environmentally devastating wall.

View to south-southwest on west flank of Huachuca Mtns, showing beautiful valleys, ridges, and wildlife habitat about to be idiotically mangled by an unnecessarily massive and wildlife-impenetrable border wall.

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Peter Reiners @peterreiners.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Lab archeology: Found this beautifully inscribed ladder from July 1957, belonging to the Institute for Atmospheric Physics (azmemory.azlibrary.gov/nodes/view/9...), which was devoted to research on cloud seeding. Also happened in July 1957: Paul McCartney meets John Lennon; start of IGY.

Ladder inscribed in 1957 by the Institute for Atmospheric Physics at the University of Arizona, devoted to cloud seeding research (!) and the predecessor to the Department of Atmospheric Sciences.

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Peter Reiners @peterreiners.bsky.social · 25/12/2023

Beautiful dewy desert morning.

Dewy dragonfly on Creosote bush, early morning.

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Peter Reiners @peterreiners.bsky.social · 24/12/2023

For my first Bluesky post: backyard on a nice evening.

Teddybear cholla in the late afternoon sun, a few days past solstice, with the Santa Catalinas in the background.

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