When the semester ends, many geoscientists abandon the cold air and fluorescent lights of laboratory research for more natural climes. They wade into swampy waters, scale steep mountainsides, climb into caves, sail the open seas, and traverse frozen tundra. They install seismic networks, drill ice cores, collect sediments, and measure streamflow. They teach the next generation of geoscientists to do the same.
This summer, AGU asked geoscientists to send in selfies from the field via social media and randomly selected five giveaway winners. Check out some standout fieldwork selfies that showcase exciting research done outside the lab.
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It’s Hammer Time
Hammer seismic at Mt. St. Helens May 2018 #FieldWorkSelfie #AGU100 pic.twitter.com/PYkBwbMZns
— Dr. Adam R. Mangel (@DrHydrogeofizz) June 17, 2019
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A Field Researcher’s Best Friend
Flashback to a happy field day – never alone with a groundwater well by your side #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie pic.twitter.com/ATzvfj7Gch
— LeonieZH (@zh_leonie) June 14, 2019
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Rockin’ Outcrops
Visiting the rocks ‘cus we rock Got the chance to witness the northeastern Taiwan coastal outcrops despite the pouring rain #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie pic.twitter.com/GORz3lorgx
— Haiyina H. A (@hayinoabio) June 14, 2019
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Hazardous Selfies, for Professionals Only
Hello, @theAGU here are my entries for #FieldWorkSelfie for #AGU100. My photos are from our Geohazard Mapping in Abra Province, Luzon, Philippines. https://t.co/INWkSY9FKM pic.twitter.com/3VXGrTZIhn
— ˗ˏˋ Sir MarcNeil Amandy ˎˊ˗ (@MarcusNeil) June 17, 2019
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Sun Is Shining in the Sky…
For my #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie, a few gems of being reeeeeallly sunburned on the @JuneauIcefield last summer (worth it). pic.twitter.com/f3nybgrPFb
— Elizabeth Case (@elizabeth_case) June 21, 2019
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Sondes Like Important Work
About a month ago doing a test radiosonde launch, preparing for #NCAR #OTREC2019, a research field mission in Costa Rica that starts in August to study tropical convection at the E Pacific near the ITCZ #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie pic.twitter.com/pXofmA0F31
— Jose Martinez-Claros (he/him) (@xatruchNMT) June 14, 2019
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A Glacier from a Different Age: 2007
Here’s my #AGU100 #fieldworkselfie from Black Rapids Glacier about 12 years ago. @theAGU pic.twitter.com/4pyicfEJmJ
— Dan Shugar (@WaterSHEDLab) June 17, 2019
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Mobile Data Are Probably Spotty Underground
#AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie Ready to go 1km underground to Boulby Underground Laboratory @theAGU pic.twitter.com/hpjttKX3Tl
— Estela Garces (@_g_eStela) June 13, 2019
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Well, That’s Not a Basic Selfie
@theAGU, here are photos of my amazing undergrads sampling an acid mine drainage stream for the #AGU100 #FieldworkSelfie https://t.co/bxM3V23DSY
— Rachel Gabor (@RiverChem) June 24, 2019
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Selfie Near Everest? Check
Selfie was taken during field trip in Ngozompa Glacier, Everest region, Nepal #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie while taking ground control points (GCPs) for the UAV survey. pic.twitter.com/Kf0fMhUrj3
— MB CHAND (@MohanBChand) June 20, 2019
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A Neat Hat Trick
My journey through ocean sciences is a story of ships and hats for #AGU100. #FieldWorkSelfie pic.twitter.com/s39yWoR36z
— Dr. Chloe Anderson (@chloerophyll_a) June 25, 2019
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Not to Be Confused with Underhills of the Shire
here’s my contribution to #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie featuring the trench @egripcamp (2 years ago now.. ack) pic.twitter.com/1XUYbNFdwb
— Benjamin Keisling (@palaeobak) June 24, 2019
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Climbing on the Roof of the World
2014 eastern Tibetan Plateau. Investigating the links between nonmarine deposition and crustal deformation in the Mula Basin #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie pic.twitter.com/R9QqmSDy0Q
— Will Jackson (@geologywill) June 25, 2019
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We’re Thankful That Smell-O-Vision Is Science Fiction
Here’s my #FieldWorkSelfie for #AGU100: me after camping in Antarctica for 50 days. Luckily this photo doesn’t come with the smell… pic.twitter.com/hyrz0DZjsm
— Drew Christ (@drewchrist_geo) June 25, 2019
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On the One Hand, Creative Selfie. On the Other Hand…Nope, Still Creative
First fieldwork for a project I developed myself: 2012, in Gubbio, Italy, at the moment the Dinosaurs died. Right hand: dinosaurs, left hand: no dinosaurs. This study helped show how fish responded to a mass extinction funded by @AmPhilSociety #AGU100 #FieldWorkSelfie @theAGU pic.twitter.com/xTH8UaCcz8
— Dr. Elizabeth Sibert (@elizabethsibert) June 27, 2019
—Kimberly M. S. Cartier (@AstroKimCartier), Staff Writer
Citation:
Cartier, K. M. S. (2019), Scientists who selfie from the field, Eos, 100, https://doi.org/10.1029/2019EO128283. Published on 10 July 2019.
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Text © 2019. AGU. CC BY-NC-ND 3.0
Except where otherwise noted, images are subject to copyright. Any reuse without express permission from the copyright owner is prohibited.