Notices by bse (doktrock@toad.social)

"After 6 new cases over the weekend, #NorthDakota has nation’s highest measles rate"

https://www.inforum.com/news/north-dakota/after-6-new-cases-over-the-weekend-north-dakota-has-nations-highest-measles-rate

"Alvin, the world’s longest-operating and most productive human-occupied deep-sea submersible, with more than 5,000 dives completed over 60 years of operation ... recently underwent a significant upgrade, allowing it to reach depths of up to 6,500 meters—surpassing its previous limit of 4,500 meters." - Eos #geology #oceanography

https://eos.org/science-updates/an-upgraded-alvin-puts-new-ocean-depths-within-reach

The DuSable Black History Museum and Education Center, a must if you visit #Chicago. A current exhibition is selections from the corporate art collection of the former Johnson Publishing Company, of EBONY and JET magazines.

Many other fantastic displays, including an animatronic Harold Washington!

"What do you mean, the Gulf Stream doesn’t keep Europe warmer than North America? How even scientists are afflicted by urban myths" | Highly Allochthonous | #geology #weather

https://all-geo.org/highlyallochthonous/2012/06/what-do-you-mean-the-gulf-stream-doesnt-keep-europe-warm-how-even-scientists-are-afflicted-by-urban-myths/

Graduate Research Assistantship (Ph.D.) in drought and dust flux, University of #SouthDakota

https://findajob.agu.org/job/8025319/graduate-research-assistantships-ph-d-in-drought-and-dust-flux-northern-great-plains-u-s/

Minerals deal with #Ukraine, Washington Post #geology

New tribal national park in #NorthDakota aims to preserve rugged and scenic Badlands landscape | AP News

https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-park-badlands-tribe-6c541f02c3c81c50e5ab563f0b22776f

A 30,000-Year-Old Feather Is a First-of-Its-Kind Fossil - Eos #FossilFriday #paleontology #geology

https://eos.org/articles/a-30000-year-old-feather-is-a-first-of-its-kind-fossil

"DOGE Aims to Kill Utah's Largest National Park Hub"

"Four of Utah’s largest and most visited national parks and monuments operate from the same office in #Moab...DOGE announced that it was terminating this office’s lease."
"The NPS SE Utah Group encompasses #Arches National Park, #Canyonlands Ntnl Park, #Hovenweep Ntnl Monument, and Natural Bridges Ntnl Monument." Collectively, they see > 2.5 million visitors each year"

https://gearjunkie.com/outdoor/doge-national-parks-nps-office-leases

"Ghost Writing" is a retrospective of Jaque Fragua, a Native artist from Walatowa, or Jemez Pueblo, in #NewMexico. Now at the Plains Art Museum in #Fargo #NorthDakota #PlainsArt

Cornell and Northwestern Universities funds frozen per NYT.

Snowy campus view today, in early April

International graduate student at University of #Minnesota detained by ICE agents

https://www.startribune.com/u-graduate-student-detained-by-ice-agents/601265118

Last few days to see "WOMEN AT WAR" #Ukraine women artists. #NorthDakota Museum of Art, #GrandForks.

This exhibition may never be shown again.

Fisher Towers, Pennsylvanian-Permian Cutler Group, near Moab, #Utah, USA. These arkosic sandstones shed from the former Uncompahgre highlands can be over 4500 m (15,000 feet) thick according to sources in Condon (1997, USGS Bull 2000-P). Beautiful hiking and climbing area!

Hoodoos at Goblin Valley State Park, #Utah, USA. Jurassic Entrada sandstone. #geology

Spooky slot canyon in the Jurassic Navajo Sandstone, southern Utah. #Geology field trip!

"'May you be afraid every second': Exhibit brings Ukrainian women's art, stories to #NorthDakota" | InForum | #Ukraine

https://www.inforum.com/lifestyle/may-you-be-afraid-every-second-exhibit-brings-ukrainian-womens-art-stories-to-north-dakota

Core day! Top of the Permian Broom Creek (bottom of photo) and unconformable contact to overlying confining unit, Opeche. Williston Basin, #NorthDakota. The Broom Creek is already receiving CO2 for carbon sequestration #CCS

Triceratops skull at the #University of #NorthDakota in Grand Forks #FossilFriday; first page of a 1997 paper on it