Christopher Hein

Defenders of our beaches lost a giant over the weekend. The legendary Orrin Pilkey passed away at 90 years old. I honestly felt like he was going to live forever and in some ways he will. My heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. 🧵

Poster detailing the Geochron January Workshop series. All information can be found at https://www.sfu.ca/igcp-725/upcomingevents.html

IGCP 725 is pleased to announce the return for the 4th year of the free, virtual Geochron January Workshop series! This year we turn our focus to the future, with coastal modeling. Details below. Register here by January 10 for full access: forms.office.com/e/40QKUp1b1Y

😁 And still at least a year (and holy hell the accreditation process!) to go. Sorry we missed you.

Come work with me: Calling geologists with Arctic interests ⚒️⛰️❄️. Permanent position as associate professor in Arctic Basin Geology @UNISvalbard. Please rt and spread to interested candidates. Get in touch if you want to know more.

www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Wonderful BlueSky:

We are looking for graduate students and postdocs who could benefit from intense exposure to all-things-microbial at the 2024 Microbial Diversity Course at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA.

Consider applying / reposting.

www.mbl.edu/education/ad...

Cover page for Barksdale et al. 2023. Direct link to open-access paper: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42942-8

For 10 years I've been watching waves expose & chew up saltmarsh & lagoon mud along the beaches & shorefaces of the VA Barrier Islands. Thanks to incredible effort by VIMS PhD student MB Barksdale, we've been able to quantify that process & implications for blue carbon.
www.vims.edu/newsandevent...

Reminder! Registration closes on January 10. It takes only 2 minutes and provides full access to all presentations and (optional) breakout sessions.

Upping an official IGCP 725 post from the other site:

We are pleased to announce our third installment of the free & fully virtual Geochron January! This time focused on Mining the Historical Record of Coastal Change.
Details: sfu.ca/igcp-725/upc...
Registration: tinyurl.comigcp-gjiii

check out this new paper from Laura Portos-Amill, from when she was an MSc student working with me and Huib de Swart at UU.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

She put really nice new inlet physics in the barrier island model BRIE, to study how inlets expand from SLR.

I've been really quiet over here as I've been prepping for & co-leading an IGCP 725 meeting and field trip in Florianópolis, Brazil. If you've not totally given up on the other site (can't blame those who have) check out handle IGCP725 for a nice review of a truly awesome week.

Reminder: review of applications for the Postdoc position begins on 1 November. The detailed job description & application portal are available here: jobs.wm.edu/postings/56047

If you're REALLY bored between 10 and 1ish tomorrow and want to wait around to catch my 5 min (and absolutely no more! I need to do some final cutting in the morning . . . ) testimony on barriers and any questions that come my way. Here's the link: naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...

Same kind of thing, different topic, different subcommittee. Busy day on the Hill I guess. And that's before they get around to maybe, possibly thinking about keeping the govt open after Saturday.
naturalresources.house.gov/calendar/eve...

You've perfectly described the steep learning curve that has subsumed my every waking moment over the past week. Good luck tomorrow, and please silently wish me the same!

So, how's your weekend going? Gulp. (yes, this is an incredibly cool opportunity for which I'm extremely humbled and honored . . . but also . . . gulp).

If I'm here, I'm gonna advertise! My lab is looking for BOTH a Postdoc (Fall/Winter 2023) & PhD student (Fall 2024). Minoritized and candidates from traditionally underrepresented backgrounds strongly encouraged to apply.

Details, application portals, & deadlines here: www.vims.edu/research/uni...

Thanks Brody! The pleasure was always mine. Glad to see the virtual you again. In all of your unhinged sports fanatic glory.

Okay, I'm on this thing. Social media take 2.