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Houston, we have a problem... So much for #WaterIsLife. The #BureauofLandManagement thinks water is for mining, even at the super important biological hotspot #SanPedroRiver. To be fair, they maybe think water is important for miners to drink too. 🙄

NEWS RELEASE: #Beavers are one of the solutions to the #BiodiversityCrisis and the #ClimateCrisis. DOZENS of environmental groups are asking #PresidentBiden to step up and protect this species on public lands.
https://westernwatersheds.org/2023/02/large-coalition-of-nonprofit-organizations-scientists-and-advocates-call-on-president-biden-to-protect-beaver-on-federal-public-lands/

Found a beach full of magical adder stones! So crazy about this giant one (that is now in my office as a pen holder). The rare Sun here came out just as I held this up 🌅

Did some #rocketry today with the club. Went 5 for 5 on flights. No long walks. No broken anything. Great day of flying.

Upscale #estesrockets Nike-X on an Aerotech G76 Mojave Green to ~1300'
Sorcerer's Apprentice on an Estes D12-5 to 750'
Der Big Red Max on an Aerotech F20-4 White Lightning to 750'
Skyracha - a 4" diameter upscale Big Daddy on an Aerotech H128 White Lightning to 1000'

Not pictured; Normal Big Daddy on an Aerotech F39 Blue Thunder to about 800'. Too quick off the rail to get a good shot.

#modelrockets #modelrocketry #highpowerrocketry

Just bc you don’t see a woman in the boardroom, or at the startup, or at the lab, or at the award ceremony - doesn’t mean it wasn’t a woman’s idea driving every single important plan or discovery.

Every tool has a story to tell.

All presidents are town-destroyers.

And Washington DC is Hanödagányasgeh "Where the destroyer of towns is."

#PresidentsDay

Magical winter explorations. Now I have to finish my physics paper before my advisor screams (but hey, it’s so sad working 24/7 when everything is this beautiful!)

First bottles of 2023. #maplesyrup

Can you be awarded an honorary PhD in the middle of your normal PhD? Bc I feel like that’d be appropriate for me at this point

It's 2023. We still prioritize private livestock profits in public land wildlife habitat. That's wrong for so many reasons, including the biggest (terrestrial) one of them all (in the lower 48):

"What’s more, they remain persecuted. They are often killed in response to conflicts with livestock released to graze in their core habitat."

https://newsregister.com/article?articleTitle=molvar-delisting-grizzly-bear-would-wreak-havoc-on-the-species--1676327141--45344--commentary

Heute ragten MPIA-Campus und Landessternwarte zeitweise nur ganz knapp aus dem Wolkenmeer heraus