Geophysics

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Geophysics community, not restricted to Canada.

General rules: must be geophysics related or adjacent (this is a very wide scope, and includes things like stellar earthquakes); must adhere to lemmy.ca moderation rules; no pseudoscience.

See also !geology@lemmy.ca

And: !earthscience@mander.xyz

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This literally used to be my job -- so please ask if you have questions.

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If anyone has any geophysical cable horror stories, fire away!

The ideal mix for maximum competitive cable-coiling energy is one A/V tech, one rock climber, one sailor, and one topologist.

https://xkcd.com/2810/

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One of my ABEM rental customers said they were using this and quite liked it! Anyone used it before?

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It's not geophysics unless it runs on batteries and has wires sticking out...

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The geophysicist replied without lifting their head up: “Noises? No problem. I got tons of filters here. What’s the frequency?”

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Site was being scrubbed from the planet when I was last there -- might not exist at all now.

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"The USGS operates a really neat email/SMS earthquake notification service (earthquake.usgs.gov/ens/) that allows fine-grained control of notifications."

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oh gerd

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Not alarmist, just cool. When I was in grad school we studied we used dInSAR to study groundwater pumping related subsidence. It makes perfect sense that there would be mass redistribution.

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This thesis just won a major prize from the Royal Astronomical Society. https://ras.ac.uk/news-and-press/news/2022-thesis-prize-winners-announced

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