College professor at SWOCC in Coos Bay Oregon. Paleontologist and geologist. 🏳️🌈 Avatar by Black Mudpuppy. 🦏🐋🦭🦌🦒🐴🐿️🦡
Dr. Win
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Week 9 of the 10 week term starts today. In the home stretch but definitely feeling the burnout (as are the students clearly). This term has been some of the worst student attendance I’ve had in years.
Day 6 of expedition in the Triassic site of TX (Princeton University and UTokyo joint expedition).
A big jacket and accidentally got a flat tire
The Coos Bay bay bois are finally being friendly towards the new bay boi! Still mild pony hierarchy drama, but no one has died so I’ll take it?
Pro tip: get horses of the same color so it hard to tell just how many you actually have!
Cumbria, England has some beautiful calcites! 😍
(Vid description: My left hand in a blue nitrile glove slowly rotating a cluster of transparent calcite crystals with some red iron staining on grey hematite) #MineralMonday #minerals
Okay so we're in between net checks and hanging out in the truck because the weather is shit, and a bird lands on the side mirror. My student Noelle looks and starts making incomprehensible noises, because it's a freaking HAWFINCH
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Got to spend the weekend riding around a phreatic explosion crater very creatively named Hole in the Ground with views of Fort Rock in the distance. The only thing better than riding my horse is doing so with great geology! This was the Mary and Anna Memorial endurance ride!
What do normal people do on Wednesday nights? Because I’m paper mache-ing a giant fossil spike-toothed salmon hat to wear to the Mayfly Festival on Saturday. Totally normal I keep telling myself…
The Coos Watershed Association Mayfly Festival was a great success! Over 450 people attended this year and I was really honored by how many folks said my pop up museum of bugs-fish-riparian plant fossils was their favorite! And yes, I wore a spike-toothed giant fossil salmon hat all day!
It’s #FossilFriday!!! This one’s for the birds, aka I just found a box with three very different bird fossils in the SWOCC collections! Eocene bird track, an Oligocene feather, and a Pliocene proximal cormorant humerus!
Dr. Win
Dr. Win
SWOCC is hiring a tenure track biology instructor! It’s a really cool school with diverse great students AND is in an incredible location! Feel free to contact me about anything with the job from pay to cost of living to research here! Come join me!
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