#USGS is an active hashtag on Bluesky. In the last 30 days, 31 people shared 1,237 posts with it — around 41 a day. Activity is down 24% versus the previous week, peaking on Jul 28 with 78 posts.

Posts with #USGS

Admirable Women

@admirablewomen.bsky.social

24 days ago

Geologist & educator Dr. Florence Bascom was the: + Second woman to earn a Ph.D. in #geology in the US, 1893 + First woman to earn a Ph.D. of any kind from John's Hopkins + First female scientist hired by the United States Geological Survey She was born #OTD in 1862. #WomenInSTEM #USGS

Striking studio portrait of a young Dr. Florence Bascom (1862–1945), historically significant as a pioneering educator and the second woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D. in geology. Photographed from the chest up against a stark, solid black background, Bascom poses with her body turned slightly to the left while her face turns gently forward. She wears a formal, light-colored Victorian gown featuring voluminous, gathered silk fabric on the shoulders and a wide neckline heavily adorned with a thick, frothy trim of delicate white lace or ruffles. Her light brown hair is softly swept up into an elegant, slightly loose chignon. Bascom maintains a serene yet deeply focused and intelligent expression, her light eyes looking slightly off-camera with a contemplative air. The high-contrast, black-and-white composition highlights her fine features, creating a formal, dignified mood that underscores her historic status as a trailblazing academic and female scientist.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪 more Saturday volcano eye candy: views of episode 9 of ongoing Kilauea eruption from 11 Feb 2025. Lava fountaining is reaching 80-100 feet (25-30 meters) high. Clip from longer Public access #USGS video. (Thank you, US government employees!). see www.usgs.gov/volcanoes/ki... 🌋

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Armando Rosario-Lebrón

@rosariolebronentomology.com

about 1 year ago

The legendary USGS Bee Lab is being shut down. The 2026 budget proposal defunds the Ecosystem Mission Area, which supported the lab. If their science helped your work, there’s still time to make your voice heard. Read below. (1/4) 🧪 #pollinators #Pollinators #USGS #Entomology #Hymenoptera 🪲🪳

www.usgs.gov

USGS Bee Lab at the Eastern Ecological Science Center

The USGS Bee Lab supports research on native bees. As part of that program we and our co-located USFWS partners develop identification tools and keys for native bee species, take public access hi reso...

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪🌋⚒️ Yay 😊. Thank you #Kilauea #Volcano, #USGS, and helicopter support for giving us exciting high lava fountain footage yet again this week to share with BlueSky. This was from day-long episode 18 of the (thus far) 4 month long eruption: mod. from www.usgs.gov/media/videos... (deets in Alt text).

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Cullen Hendrix

@cullenhendrix.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

For a country currently obsessed with critical minerals and even discussing territorial annexation to secure them, alienating our Canadian friends is wildly at odds with US mineral security ambitions. Two countries make the #USGS top tier in terms of US import dependency: Canada & China.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪 Amazing 2-vent lava fountaining yesterday at #Kilauea #volcano. #USGS reports Episode 12 of the ongoing summit #eruption in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park ended at 10:37 a.m. HST on March 5, after 22 hours of activity. Original NPS video at: x.com/i/status/189...

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪🌋⚒️ thats gassy. super high lava fountaining to 305 m (1000 ft) at Halema‘uma‘u crater, #Kilaue #volcano, this week (26 Mar), during episode 15 of the ongoing eruption. Cumulatively, the eruption has produced quite a tephra blanket around the summit area since Dec 2024. #USGS photo.

26 Narch 2025 image of glowing orange lava fountain during episode 15 of the Halema‘uma‘u eruption at the summit of Kīlauea. Fountain heights reached up to about 1,000 feet (305 meters) during episode 15. Source: USGS photo by C. Gansecki. https://www.usgs.gov/media/images/march-26-2025-kilauea-episode-15-lava-fountains-1

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪🌋⚒️ Powerful display: 200m high #lava fountain and 700m long lava flow from episode 16 of Kilauea summit eruption, 1-Apr-25, as seen from #USGS Hawaiian Volcano Observatory helicopter overflight. They report a 1.5 m-thick tephra blanket has formed near the vent since eruption beginning, 23-Dec-24.

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪⚒️🌋 180 m (600-foot) high lava fountains from the last day-long pulse ("episode 11") of the ongoing #eruption of #Kilauea #volcano, Hawaii, 26 Feb 2025, brought to you by the good folks at #USGS , who for now, still appear to be employed. I guess even 🐛🐛🐛 like volcanoes. Video source in Alt text.

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June Osborne

@unhingedoffred.bsky.social

3 months ago

The People’s Sick Day is this Friday 5/1. We’re probably all coming down with COVID or measles or something. If you can’t stay home, BUY NOTHING. #USGeneralStrike #USGS #MayDay

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Dr. Kenna Harmony Rubin

@kennarubin.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

🧪🌋⚒️ Can't get enough of these mesmerizing zoomed-in night views of the active Kilauea volcano eruption in #Hawaii. This #USGS clip shows episode 10 activity from the North Vent in Feb 2025. The eruption began 23-Dec-24. Source: compressed/muted/shortened from www.usgs.gov/media/videos...

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Jenna C. Hill

@chillocean.bsky.social

over 1 year ago

Seafloor enthusiasts! We now have a complete set of high resolution seafloor bathymetry grids for the Cascadia subduction zone (offshore Washington, Oregon & northern California) available for download! #USGS #data #science #mapping #MarineGeohazards 🧪⚒️🌊 www.usgs.gov/programs/cmh...