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Mika McKinnon
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Psst. Multilingual geotweeps: Did you see #AGU ED011 “Ciencia Para Todos: Increasing Access to the Geosciences through Multilingual Science Outreach”?

It’d be awesome to see something on Canadian bilingual geo conferences.
agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/preli…
My first-ever academic talk was in English with my slides en français (proofed by a francophone friend I bribed with wine).

Lots of animations of models, carefully tech-checked earlier in the day, times & over-rehearsed... so of COURSE we had a hiccup & I had to go slideless.
I sounded like a kindergartener stumbling through an inadequate technical vocabulary with atrocious grammar, but in retrospect it was my rite of passage into Canadian academia.

Les glissements de terrain!

Bilingual scicomm is impressive & terrifying.
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Mika McKinnon
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You know what pairs well with Friday?

Cookies.
Space cookies.
Space cookies with a tall glass o’ science and a side of speculating about space chocolate.

by me:
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Moose is assessing our space cookie supply for quality control. Plush moose climbing into a can of space cookies
Once the weather is more ammeniable to shipping perishables, I’m getting my hands on DoubleTree cookie dough for experimental temperature & time runs.

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Tsunami can start coming onshore before warnings are even issued. Play it safe & just get uphill FAST.

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But it’s tricky, Indonesia’s had a bad run in recent years of chaotic warnings, unclear responses (GET TO HIGH GROUND), vandalized equipment, erosion of public trust...

I hope the quake didn’t generate a tsunami.
Tsunami are generated any time you have significant disruption of the water column.

This is usually vertical motion on a fault (which happens near Indonesia), but can be things like a submarine mountain moving sideways (2018: earther.gizmodo.com/scientists-are…) or landslides in to water.
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Ah, I see we're on "Crystals are Magic" day again already.

Crystals are minerals growing in specific HIGHLY ordered structures.

Crystals can be natural or synthetic.
Crystals can make me happy ('cause they're neat!)
Crystals are never magic.

Note: opalite is always synthetic.
I dislike it when science is reduced to magic because reality is so much cooler.

For all my griping about not wanting to memorize All The Things for exams, mineralogy & crystallography are badass and deserve more respect than getting waved away as Magical-Wagical Wooishness.
Are you ready to dive into hardcore science?

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