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Swamp sunflowers 🌻 on the #stjohnsriver, #florida

#aquastemconsulting #environmentalconsulting #environmentalscience #fieldworkfriday #airboat #survey
October 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
It's our final #FieldWorkFriday of the season! Today, we revisit Nikolai where our local school partner 🏫 allowed the team to build the tower shown here. It receives the data streamed by radio wave 📻️ from 2 remote stations, K20K and L20K, each about 40 miles from Nikolai. Stay tuned 📡 for TriviaTues
October 2, 2026 at 9:21 PM
pnsn1.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday! Satellite comms, like the Starlink at PASS, lets us reliably transmit data where cell coverage is poor. But satellite dishes are power hogs, so we often use a short radio hop from a solar-powered seismic site to an AC-powered site with a satellite dish.
Wide outdoor rural scene under bright blue sky with large white clouds. Foreground left: side of small white shed. Beside it stands weather-monitoring equipment mounted on wooden posts: metal sensor box, cables, a tall pole, and rectangular solar panel at top. Center: small leafy fruit tree in grassy field. Beyond it stretches open pasture, enclosed by thin wire fencing and wooden fence posts. Background: dense evergreen trees line field. Low forested hills rise at far right. Sunlight casts long shadows across grass. Photo feels clear, peaceful, and outdoorsy. Wide outdoor pasture under cloudy sky. Left: person wearing cap, plaid shirt, jeans, standing in grass and looking toward equipment. Center: Underground Depart box with the seismic sensors Right: solar-powered monitoring station mounted on stone-and-wood base. Two solar panels angle upward. Below them are weather sensors, pipes, wires, and small instruments. Open metal electrical control box mounted outdoors. Inside, many red, black, blue, green, and gray wires run between terminal blocks, connectors, power supplies, and other electrical components. Wires are bundled and coiled near top and right side. A horizontal grounding bar with several black cable clamps crosses middle. Bottom section contains additional terminal blocks and a larger gray control module. Sunlight creates a rainbow-like glare across image. Wooden support posts and outdoor grass visible around box. Tall metal pole stands beside wooden post, with rectangular solar panel mounted at top. Coiled conduit and electrical wiring run along pole, with small round instrument attached near middle. Aluminum ladder leans against structure in foreground. Beyond it, sunny pasture, rustic fence, evergreen forest, and wooded hills sit beneath bright blue sky with scattered white clouds.
October 2, 2026 at 8:00 PM
greatbasinbirds.bsky.social
Field manual amendment-“Avoid oncoming traffic while rescuing venomous lizards from the road.” #FieldWorkFriday #GilaMonster #herps
Gila Monster in a cooler, after being rescued from the road.
October 2, 2026 at 6:24 PM
bayquest.bsky.social
The more we listen in to the sea, the better we can understand the impact of noise pollution on wildlife. Happy Friday Everybody!

Here we are demonstrating #SpotterSound hydrophone tech to young sailors aboard the schooner Seaward! 🎧⛵️

#FieldworkFriday #BayQuest #SeaSoundsProject #SanFranciscoBay
October 2, 2026 at 5:01 PM
cires.colorado.edu
CIRES scientists investigate climate and environmental changes from pole to pole.

In November 2019, CIRES scientists and colleagues installed a GPS on the George VI Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. #FieldworkFriday

📸: @alibanwell.bsky.social / CIRES
A scientist in winter gear stands near 2 snowmobiles and a GPS unit on a snowy and icy landscape with high, snowy mountains in the background.
October 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
It’s #FieldworkFriday! Field team members Shah Khan and Cade Quigley visited Nikolai recently to build a new relay station from the ground up! Thank you to Top of the Kuskokwim School for hosting the new station. Khan and Quigley also gave a presentation to students and practiced earthquake safety!
Two people smile and give a thumbs-up beside a pole-mounted Alaska Earthquake Center data relay station labeled "Earthquake Monitoring Station," with antennas and wiring visible. Students and an adult sheltering under desks during an earthquake drill in a classroom with red chairs, whiteboard, and Alaska Earthquake Center logo.
September 25, 2026 at 10:15 PM
pnsn1.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday! The highest-elevation station in the continental US, St Andrews Rock (STAR) on Mt Rainier, sits above 11,000ft. Steep terrain, erosion, and changing snow & ice are forcing a move down ridge. This visit helped identify a safer, more stable site nearby.
September 25, 2026 at 9:00 PM
earthscope.org
Happy #fieldworkfriday!

EarthScope engineers ventured out to Yellowstone National Park to service monitoring stations around the park.
September 25, 2026 at 7:01 PM
uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social
#FieldworkFriday 🧪🌊🦑🦀

@uafairbanks.bsky.social graduate student Teighan Shore is working with the #BeringSea Research Center on a project studying #OceanAcidification and red king crab. We are analyzing seawater samples for their project.

www.beringseacampus.com
Bering Sea Research Center staff observe adult female crabs just after arrival into the hatchery. https://www.beringseacampus.com/ The Bering Sea Research Center accommodates academic researchers, institutional partnerships, government agencies, and private research focused on Arctic, marine and coastal ecosystems. We support interdisciplinary collaboration across Indigenous and academic, federal, state, and community-based initiatives, providing infrastructure that advances research excellence, strategic program implementation, and long-term Arctic engagement.
September 25, 2026 at 4:45 PM
geographicalassoc.bsky.social
What’s the best field trip you’ve ever taken a class on and what made it so memorable?

#geography #geographyteacher #fieldworkfriday
September 22, 2026 at 3:17 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday! We maintain seismic stations at several of Alyeska's Trans Alaska Pipeline System pumpstations. This week the field team upgraded the data digitizer (which makes data ready to transmit) at station PS08 and performed "shake tests" to ensure it would alert Alyeska's systems.
A technician sets up seismic monitoring equipment inside a server rack, connecting and organizing multiple network and sensor cables among tangled cords, with the "Alaska Earthquake Center" label visible in the lower-right corner.
September 18, 2026 at 11:16 PM
pnsn1.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday! Our field crew headed to Mt. Rainier to perform maintenance at RCS, one of our seismic stations. Along the way, they enjoyed stunning views of the snow-covered peaks.
A rugged, snow-dusted mountain ridge rises beneath a deep blue sky. There is also station sits along the rocky slope over looked by clear blue sky. Photo of a bunch of boxes and supply photo of Field crew posing with a thumbs up
September 18, 2026 at 10:00 PM
uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social
#FieldworkFriday #AlaskaSky 🧪🌊🦑
This week we are analyzing seawater samples collected by @uafairbanks.bsky.social oceanographers partnering with the National Park Service to detect #OceanAcidification in #GlacierBay and #WrangellStElias.

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University of Alaska Fairbanks oceanographers deploy equipment to observe seawater properties such as temperature, salinity, and dissolved oxygen. The vertical sample bottles collect seawater at various depth to later analyze for chlorophyll, nutrients, and carbonate chemistry. This oceanographic research station is in a glacial fjord in the northeast Pacific offshore Alaska.
September 18, 2026 at 6:28 PM
bayquest.bsky.social
Tomorrow's the Day! Grab a bucket & trowel, help us clean up our shoreline and meet hundreds of new friends!

9am-12noon; Middle Harbor Shoreline Park

Happy Friday!

(Photo: Replacing invasives with sustainable native plants near the Port of Oakland)

#FieldworkFriday #BayQuest #ShorelineCleanup
September 18, 2026 at 3:19 PM
pnsn1.bsky.social

Happy #FieldworkFriday! Members of the PNSN field team recently visited Quillayute airport on the Olympic Peninsula to upgrade telemetry equipment and infrastructure. PNSN’s data telemetry system transmits ground-motion data from hundreds of seismic stations to UW 24/7.
Photo of three field crew members standing on green excavator Photo of solar panel sitting on freshly cut grass overlooked by cloudy blue sky photo of a field crew team member standing on ladder besides a mobile white cargo container which has been converted into a mini station A University of Washington flag flies from tall pole beneath a red, white, and blue illuminated beacon at dusk. In the background there is the white cargo container a small blue field station. The overcast sky and rural landscape create a dark, atmospheric setting.
September 11, 2026 at 11:00 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
It’s #FieldworkFriday! A shoutout to Chevak School and all of our community partners! Field team members Shah Khan and Celia Chmielowski went to Chevak in western Alaska to move a relay station antenna at the school. K13K on Kusilvak Mountain sends seismic data via radio, then school internet.
Exterior of a beige metal building a red extension ladder leans against the wall. The Alaska Earthquake Center logo is in the upper left. A white arrow points at a spot on the wall above the ladder where the antenna will be attached.
September 11, 2026 at 10:15 PM
prehistoricmuseum.bsky.social
It’s Fieldwork Friday!

Today we are highlighting our recent 2026 fieldwork near Ferron Mountain.

Here are some shots of our amazing team with some amazing fossils!

#fieldworkfriday #fossilfriday #volunteers #fossils #paleontology
September 11, 2026 at 5:36 PM
huwgroucutt.bsky.social
#FieldworkFriday. Shade solutions!
September 11, 2026 at 3:56 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
It’s #FieldworkFriday! The field team visited our station on Waxell Ridge (WAX) on its birthday! 🥳 This site next to Bering Glacier was installed by the USGS in 1975. Working around a slew of bad weather days, this visit the team installed new satellite and radio antennas, and 24 new batteries.
Graphic with a photo of a seismic station hut with a glacier in the background in the middle, with cartoon of a birthday cake to the left and cartoon of balloons on the right. Text at the top reads "Happy Birthday WAX! August 22, 1975 - August 22, 2026". The Alaska Earthquake Center logo is in the bottom right corner.
September 4, 2026 at 10:02 PM
alaskaepscor.bsky.social
Fairbanks-based photographer Andy Padilla is one of our artists-in-residence. And with a background as a fisheries biologist, he's no stranger to field work. For #FieldworkFriday, he sent us these photos and a trip report from time with researchers in Homer and Sadie Cove.
📸 by Andy Padilla
September 4, 2026 at 6:36 PM
cires.colorado.edu
#FieldworkFriday from McMurdo Station!

1 year ago, CIRES Fellow John Cassano snapped this photo from the Phoenix Airfield after arriving in Antarctica.
People in winter gear disembark a plane sitting on a ice and snow-covered runway
September 4, 2026 at 4:03 PM
uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social
The Bering Sea Research Center has a new research vessel!
🧪🌊🦑🙌 #FieldworkFriday #AlaskaSky

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August 28, 2026 at 11:17 PM
pnsn1.bsky.social
Happy #FieldworkFriday! A PNSN field crew headed to the Saddle Mountains in eastern Washington this week to test radio equipment and scope out sites for future seismic stations—and made a detour to admire some lava that hit water 16 million years ago and froze into layered blobs.
Radio tower on a mountain ridge covered in yellow grass and basalt, framed by barbed wire in the foreground. A person crouched with a laptop and some wires by a small antenna and some basalt boulders, with the slopes below. Another angle of the person working with the laptop and antenna, showing a white truck and two transmission towers along the ridge line in the background A person peering at a striking rock formation with blobs and layers of dark basaltic lava.
August 28, 2026 at 10:02 PM
akearthquake.bsky.social
It’s #FieldworkFriday! Here’s Barry Glacier calving twice, in a video by our field intern Devin Zigmont! The ice makes an impressive BOOM when it hits the water, which shows up on the seismic record at nearby station BAT. The waves from the tsunami 🌊 travel outward, like they would from a landslide.
August 28, 2026 at 8:52 PM