BC Earth & Environmental Sciences

Senator Ed Markey visited our department this week to show his support for the work we are conducting in collaboration with the @ArmyERDC to study the sustainability of our nation's coastlines and inland waterways in the face of climate change. Go Eagles!

A BC study led by @BCEarthScience Professor Xingchen (Tony) Wang finds that heavy rains deliver the largest amounts of fertilizer-derived nitrogen pollution to the Gulf of Mexico. Learn more in @physorg_com: bit.ly/HeavyRainStudy

Magnitude 3.8 earthquake today near York Harbor, Maine. New @raspishake stations we recently installed in NH: R7591: Canterbury, NH Public Library. S6080: Near Laconia, NH – picture of me installing it with our undergrad and grad students in 2023.

Urban Seismology: Magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Cuba recorded across NY City area. USGS “Yellow Alert”: Some casualties and damage are possible😢impact should be localized.

Great experience to be involved in this collaborative effort with great international team of co-authors led by scientists at “CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology" in Assam, India.

Thank you @raspishake for this wonderful surprise gift that I just received!

Less than 1 month left to apply! 🦅We are looking for a colleague in the "Solid Earth Geosciences" to join our @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. Please share! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/149620

A Rockslide-Generated Tsunami in a Greenland Fjord Rang the Earth for 9 Days: New study published in the journal Science, co-Authored by an international team of 68 scientists, including EESC Prof. Alan Kafka. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Bedrock exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, @BCEarthScience's Jeremy Shakun and a research team report. on.bc.edu/UnprecedentedR…

Paleoclimatologist & @BCEarthScience Professor Jeremy Shakun and an international team report that the world’s glaciers are melting far faster than predicted, as ice no longer covers Andean bedrock. on.bc.edu/UnprecedentedR…

🦅FACULTY JOB POSTING! Come join our growing and thriving @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. We are seeking a "Solid Earth Geoscientist" (aka. petrology+) to complement our departmental strengths. Questions? Ask me. Please share! Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/149620

🧑‍🔬JOB OPENING @BostonCollege Director, Center for Isotope Geochemistry: clean room, two TIMS, Laser-QQQ ICPMS, DeltaV, MAT253, and room to grow. Join a great group of scholars at @BCEarthScience and Boston area. Questions, ask me. Please share! Apply: bc.edu/content/bc-web…

Boston College climate researchers lead the most comprehensive assessment to date of the potent greenhouse gas. on.bc.edu/OxideEmissions

Motivated by the recent magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey, I have written a new variation of my blog “Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?” This one is called: “Why Does the Earth Quake in New York City?” - Here's the link: bcespquakes.com/ak_site/why_qu…

Emissions of nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane - continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, according to a new report led in the U.S. by BC climate scientists. on.bc.edu/OxideEmissions

🎉NEW EPISODE ALERT! The final episode of Every Rock Has A Story - Season Four - premieres tonight at 7:30 EST. See @kmgoodenough take us to a real lithium deposit in Sweden. Thanks to @UnitedLithium for letting us see these amazing rocks youtu.be/7xtNaS6x7BM

Congratulations to @BCEarthScience Professor Ethan Baxter as his "Every Rock Has A Story" season four has been nominated for a @NewEnglandEmmy in the Children/Youth Category. This is the second year in a row @EthanRockStory's series have been nominated. brnw.ch/EveryRockSeaso…

Lepidolite from a pegmatite in Maine! A source of LITHIUM for our green energy future. Stop 4 of the Earth Materials field trip ⁦@BCEarthScience⁩

Stop 3 of our Earth Materials field trip - look of those giant feldspar crystals! ⁦@BCEarthScience⁩

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey today, recorded by @raspishake seismograph in Brooklyn, NY.