Dr. Dawn Wright + @deepseadawn.bsky.social 🇺🇦
@deepseadawn
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Aquanaut + Chief Scientist of @Esri + @OregonState GIS/oceans professor, cyclist, 1st Black diver to #ChallengerDeep , builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii.
SHE is somewhere under the sea
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What did we see upon 1st touching bottom, at 10,900+m depth w/in
#ChallengerDeep
? A BEER BOTTLE! 😫 Further evidence that we MUST as humanity do BETTER by the ocean and for the health of habitats that we ourselves share & ultimately depend on!!!
#ThereIsNoPlanetB
#DeeperSeaDawn
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Absolutely love the insights possible from this "Academic Wheel of Privilege" as shared recently by
@Jadson_Jall
from a
@NASA
Transform to Open Science interview with
@Flavio_Azevedo_
cc & thx
@ChelleGentemann
#openscience
#RepresentationMatters
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I'm Dr. "Deepsea Dawn" Wright, a marine geographer/ geologist. Big research accomplishments include mapping and diving to areas of the seafloor never before seen + helping to build 1st fully 3D digital ocean
#BlackInGeoscienceRollCall
#BiGWeek2021
#BIMS
#WomenInSTEM
#BiGDiversity
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BEHOLD! The new World Terrestrial Ecosystem Explorer, a 1st-of-its-kind mapping of the distribution of global terrestrial ecosystems at a detailed spatial resolution (250 m), by
@usgs
,
@Esri
, and
@j_a_mcgowan
+
@nature_org
cc
@HugePossum
@walterjetz
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I'm Dawn! I map the oceans, study underwater volcanos & hot springs. I also build Legos!
#actuallivingscientist
#meetascientist
#scicomm
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Yesterday at
#ChallengerDeep
had TWO FIRSTS: 1st successful sidescan sonar mapping operation at full-ocean-depth + 1st person of African-descent (any gender) to dive to world's deepest point. I dedicated the dive to these 7 (see thread below ...)
📣 Dawn and Victor successfully dove to Challenger Deep last night and safely made it back to the ship! 🎉 🎉
Please join us in congratulating them both on this amazing achievement!
@deepseadawn
@VictorVescovo
@Esri
#DeeperSeaDawn
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Before summer leaves us, sharing my favorite movie 🍿of the summer, “The Sea Beast,” a
@netflix
animated original, with wonderful diversity in the characters!
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Did you know? Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, newly-announced running mate of
@VP
Harris, was the keynote speaker at our
@EsriUC
just last month??? Catch his super inspiring talk here:
Cc
@leahstokes
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On this July 4, I would like to share w/one of my heroes
@LakotaMan1
, this pic of me at age 6 with Black Elk at Mt. Rushmore. With what my mom was already teaching me about TRUE Am History I felt as tho I was w/ the equivalent of George Washington, so proud+excited! 🇺🇸🪶
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I'm Dr. "Deepsea Dawn" Wright, a marine geologist (seafloor mapper + tectonics), now Chief Scientist of
@Esri
+ prof. of geography & oceanography at
@OregonState
. I'm psyched about
#BIMSCares
esp. to be
#BlackontheBeach
again at home in Hawai'i 🌺.
#BIMSRollCall
#BIMSWeek
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Introducing Sharkipedia, "a curated open access database of shark and ray life history traits and abundance time-series." A paper is
#openaccess
from cc
@MISS_Elasmo
@WhySharksMatter
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The GIS for Climate Hub provides a variety of resources to get you started in climate analysis or help develop more advanced workflows. Access climate data:
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Super important,
#openaccess
paper: "Navigating Gender at Sea" - trans, gender non-binary, agender, + gender nonconforming authors present problems & improvements around the treatment of gender in oceanographic fieldwork.
cc
@JulesDeep
@caseymachado
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My dear mom & best friend was fitted with her angel wings 👼 last night. She passed peacefully in the same brave and sweet fashion that exemplified her life. I’ve written about that exemplary life at . Will be taking a break from social media for a spell.
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Snowing in REDLANDS right now! The rarest of treats for us! ☃️🏂🎄
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Important R paper just out: "arcgisbinding: An R package for integrating R and ArcGIS"
Package at this repo:
Software + data:
#spatialdatascience
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As
#NewHorizons
continues on its amazing journey, rest in peace dear Nancy Grace Roman, Mother of the Hubble Telescope, 1925-2018 cc
@LegoNASAWomen
@legogradstudent
@RogueNASA
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I'm not a birder but will deepsea diving do? 😉 (we DID see some seabirds before submerging!)
#BlackInNature
#blackbirdersweek
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"I worked not just at 100%, but 110%, 120%, or 150%, in part to debunk ... the thinking of skeptical colleagues that I was not just an affirmative action hire without the necessary competency"
#RealTalkWednesday
#SinkOrSwim
#BlackinMarineScience
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Keeping calm! Today is the big 6-0! 😬🎂And thanks to my sweet little mom who can no longer write due to a crippled hand so she gave me flowers 💐 instead.🥰 Also happy
#NationalGardeningDay
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Totally OVERWHELMED & OVERJOYED by this gift from the “World’s Most Vertical Person”
@AstroKDS
+
@LEGO_Group
of the new
@NASA
Discovery Space Shuttle 🚀 + Hubble kit!! Everlasting thx to these friends in high places! 😃 And
#Lego
fans, grab this now on !!
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I'm Dr. "Deepsea Dawn" Wright, a marine geologist (seafloor mapper + tectonics), Chief Scientist of
@Esri
+ prof. of geography & oceanography at
@OregonState
+ 1st black person to
#ChallengerDeep
. Honored to give
#BIMSKeynote
for you, 3 Dec 12:30 ET
#BIMSRollCall
#BIMSWeek
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Getting safely into & out of the Limiting Factor sub takes practice, but am ready for tomorrow thx to my roommate Kate Wawatai, the only female member of the support team + a fine submersible pilot in her own right & as the 1st female Maori!! 🇳🇿
#ChallengerDeep
#DeeperSeaDawn
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I’m pretty much shocked out of my shoes, and thank
@theNAEng
for this honor and for
@OSUCEOAS
@OSUScience
and
@OregonState
where the bulk of this early work was done, as well as to so many amazing colleagues and students!
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Today
#Esri
has released a new Racial Equity resource site with data, templates, blog articles, StoryMaps and more to help mappers, scientists, citizens, activists, etc. address racial inequities and work toward
#socialjustice
.
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“Black Climate Scientists and Scholars Changing the World” including
@ayanaeliza
and
@DrBobBullard
!!!
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Dive day has arrived. “Everything can be found at sea, according to the spirit of your quest.” — Joseph Conrad 📸 credit:
@CBSNews
#ChallengerDeep
#DeeperSeaDawn
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New, free MOOC on Using GIS to Deal with Climate Change, hosted by
@deepseadawn
and featuring
@KHayhoe
,
@GlobalEcoGuy
,
@EsteGeraghty
and much more!! via
@ArcUser
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That feeling when you get to meet one of your all-time cinematic AND conservation heroes and talk a little deepsea conservation, thanks to the
@EOWBF
!!!
cc
@DeepStewardship
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Awesomeness 🤩😎😍! Sheer awesomeness!!!
@womeningis
brown bag lunch session at the
#EsriUC
#womenintech
#STEM
#womenwhocode
#hiddenfiguresnolonger
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And now for something completely different! Didn’t want to let go of mom’s cool 😎 Spanish-made glasses, so had them refitted with my own prescription. Voilà! Another small way to keep a piece of her with me.
#momlegacy
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ONE WEEK until I depart for the scientific adventure of a lifetime!
#ChallengerDeep
#DeeperSeaDawn
Special thanks to Du for this awesome animation of me and Riley as
@LEGO_Group
minifigs (original minifig design by
@cartonaut
) 🥰
Expedition website:
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2/2 I got our house a Tesla Powerwall so that we’re now our own independent, solar micro grid, safe from SoCal Edison power outages + able to contribute energy back to their grid. Super cool enviro-green light at night 🥰🌎Cc
@KHayhoe
@JaneLubchenco
@EMMMJVEEE
1/2 So awesome doing a major environmental project with MOM (as
@ayanaeliza
knows) 😉. Mom paid for new landscaping with native, drought tolerant plants = natural support system for pollinators + insects. Our gift to the neighborhood and to the planet ....
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Oh… my… GOSH!! Every time I think I couldn’t have received something more precious, my mind is BLOWN! 🤯🥰 So THANKFUL to have young ocean warrior
@OneGirlOneOcean
in my life who made THIS for me out of
@LEGO_Group
bricks, from a scene in
@mesoplodon
’ s video for
@agu_os
#OSM22
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ChatGPT but for maps.💡Here's a first look at our work on a Smart Mapping Assistant prototype that combines the power of GIS with generative AI.
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Hugely needed!! "Biden administration proposes record $6.9 billion budget for NOAA"
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Sometimes it helps to look back at who we were (e.g., age 6 in Hawaii + college graduation pic, Wheaton, IL) to strengthen us for what we need to do NOW and in the future
#ThrowbackThursday
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SCREAMS of DELIGHT!!!! THANK YOU to
@EsriPanama
for this amazing limited-edition LEGO Panama Canal kit, and for taking me to actually see the Canal!!!!!!!!!
#OurOceanPanama
#OurOcean
highlight 😃🥰🤩
cc
@AWhitTwit
@cartonaut
@JamesGIS
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Can I get an AMEN? "Everyone is tired. We need to give ourselves an actual break."
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That feeling when your boss sends you a lovely arrangement of flowers because your mother died, and you normally run to tell or show your mother EVERYthing and then halfway down the hall on the way to her room…. oh….🥺🙃
#LaughingToKeepFromCrying
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Marilyn Raphael, professor of GEOGRAPHY, takes helm at UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
#BlackinGeoscienceWeek
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A little girl gave me a big hug on
#GISDay
this month. That's all that I need going forward. Let the children inspire you, guide you even.
#IfThisWasMyLastTweet
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This is in part why we map underwater volcanoes!
#HungaTongaHungaHaapai
@seabed2030
#seafloormapping
#seabedmapping
BREAKING: Satellite image captures Tonga's Hunga volcano erupting
(Source:
@US_Stormwatch
)
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What are the real implications of deep-sea impacts of climate interventions?
@LlevinAnn
et al. warn us that
"ocean manipulation" in the hope of mitigating climate change may actually harm deep-sea ecosystems.
cc
@_david_ho_
@GlobalEcoGuy
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Raise your hand 🖐 if this has happened to you too! 😅
My work bag is so heavy that my car thinks it's a person and yells at me for not putting a seat belt on it.
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FINALLY! "NSF invests millions to unite Indigenous knowledge with Western science"
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Home again! Shares from Palau 🇵🇼 island 🏝 adventures hopefully coming soon via
@GoPro
.
#DeeperSeaDawn
#ChallengerDeep
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In Largest Ever Gift To
@nature_org
,
#Esri
CEO Preserves Pristine Stretch Of California Coast via
@forbes
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Hopefully "the times ... they are a changin'" with 4 of us welcomed in the same cohort ... So inspired by my colleagues! cc
@BlkinGeoscience
@blackgeogorg
@BlackInSciComm
@blackvoicenews
👏 Congratulations to four AAG members who are newly elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, including the incoming AAG Vice President Marilyn Raphael. 🌟
@americanacad
@deepseadawn
@DrShepherd2013
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Please celebrate my friend & former shipmate Kate Wawatai🇳🇿 + marine geologist Heather Stewart 🏴 who just made a world-record dive into the Nova-Canton Trough (Central Pacific), a first for an all-female submersible team, with Kate as PILOT!!! 🌊🐙🐬🦑 cc
@VictorVescovo
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Lost my sweet, precious mom a year ago today. Practicing self-care. You can still read about her:
“...in the human journey ... letting go means dying a little. In the process we are created anew, awakened afresh to the source of our being.”~ K.R. Fischer
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Huge thanks to Jack Dangermond and my colleagues for helping me celebrate 10 YEARS at
#Esri
. We call each year an "Esri-versary"! 😄🥳🥂🎆
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Happy
#WorldOceanDay
with a reminder that it is all ONE ocean, a beautifully interconnected climate and habitat engine that is buying us precious survival time! AND you can even make this map in GIS!
+
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Jeannette Epps will become 1st African-American—man or woman—to join an Intl Space Station (ISS) crew
#USofScience
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SQUEAL!!!!!! 😜Guess what just arrived today ALREADY?!?! Thank you
@LEGO_Group
!! Now I can
#BuildtheWorld
in proper Equal Earth 🌏 + healthy oceans!!! cc
@John_M_Nelson
@BojanSavric
@kennethfield
@AWhitTwit
@epunt
@JamesGIS
@cartonaut
@cartatesri
@L__Peters
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Thank you again friend
@LeeCowanCBS
!
Oceanographer
@deepseadawn
made history as the first Black person to travel to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, seven miles beneath the surface of the Pacific Ocean.
She shares how she overcame incredible physical odds and obstacles to get to this place in her career.
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Hey
#BlackInDataWeek2021
I'm chief scientist of the spatial data science company
@Esri
+ my own area of expertise is ocean informatics. Tho much older (PhD in 1994), enjoy my
#blackindatajourney
via this
#StoryMap
#BlackInDataRollCall
#BlackInData
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Thank you for everything
@UCSBgeog
@ucsantabarbara
! I am such a happy alum and couldn't have gone anywhere without you! cc
@brenucsb
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This was ABSOLUTELY a HIGHLIGHT for me! Thanks to the amazing
@RaeWynnGrant
, and can’t wait until we can go into the field together, perhaps at the Dangermond Preserve one day!
#EsriUC
@deepseadawn
is the Chief Scientist at
@Esri
- a Black woman in an executive position who inspires and encourages me. AND SHE STILL DOES FIELDWORK 🙌🏾. Today we filmed a 1 on 1 convo with over 20k viewers. A dream realized ✨
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Clearest-ever seafloor maps show deep-sea 'Grand Canyon' off US coast in stunning detail via
@OceanDiscLeague
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Working with federal agencies, Esri is opening up access in ArcGIS Online to dozens of high-priority national data layers. The collection is publicly accessible under an open commons license agreement, making it free for anyone to use.
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Oh my word! This Halloween 🎃 surprise arrived just now from
@NGA_GEOINT
! Huge thanks to them and to my
@EsriFederalGovt
colleagues for their contributions and support!
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“Before you know who I am as a scientist you need to know who I am as a person. It is my belief that seeing each other as people first leads to a less biased, kinder, more open and inclusive academia.” -- Biologist Swanne Gordon on her
#BlackintheIvory
experience
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"Decolonizing Conservation Reading List (Version 2.0)" This tailored list of readings by
@secanno
of
@ucsb_nceas
is meant for non-Indigenous people working in ecology to self-educate on the colonialist roots of conservation science.
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All the joyous graduation 👩🏾🎓 celebrations this season inspired me to share this pic from 1995: my precious mom 🌺giving me a lei after graduating with the PhD.
@ucsbgeog
@ucsantabarbara
forever! 💕🐬❤️🏄🏾♀️🏄🏽🏄🏻♂️
#stillcelebrating
@BlkinGeoscience
@BlackinMarSci
@BlackTIDES1
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So exciting! My new
@MINIUSA
ELECTRIC ⚡️ (Mini Cooper SE)’s first charge!
#ElectricVehicle
Paperwork at dealer signed with
@mapsOverlord
Batman light-up pen! 😜
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Wishing you the most blessed and safest of holidays, no matter what or where you celebrate! 🥰🕊️
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(7) and finally to my beloved mom Jeanne, who was fitted w/her angel wings in December 2021, 😔 but, despite all her motherly fears, always encouraged and celebrated my expeditions at sea.
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Amanda ... Gorman .... That is all ...
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Woo hoo!!! “Micronesian scientist becomes first Pacific Islander to reach ocean's deepest point”
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Now onboard “the good ship Pressure Drop,” completed 1st bit of filming with the great Nick Verola, and hanging out in the mapping lab with the amazing Roxy Wigley of
@mapthegaps
#ChallengerDeep
#DeeperSeaDawn
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Good morning Guam 🇬🇺! Great to be in this beautiful place which is currently in its rainy season. Will board the DSSV Pressure Drop tomorrow local time (July 9). I’m now 1 day ahead of a lot of friends due to the Intl Date Line.
#DeeperSeaDawn
#challengerDeep
cc
@GISandScience
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The amazing
@cartonaut
has done it again! This time I am gifted 🎁 with a LEGO Riley dog, Hawaiian 🌺 shirt and flower, laptop (showing map 🗺 of Hawaii!!), and... AND a Jack Dangermond (w/map too)😆 Thanks buddy! cc
@auntyrenee
@JamesGIS
@John_M_Nelson
@_david_ho_
@spangrud
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"Tonga volcano eruption continues to astonish"
This was a great paper session at
#AGU22
#TongaEruption
#HungaTongaHungaHaapai
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Thanks to rapid advances in mapping technology, and a growing recognition of the seabed’s importance, a comprehensive map of the ocean floor is within reach.
#spilhaus
@seabed2030
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And
@SylviaEarle
thank YOU so much for your pivotal role in this, and for continuing to lead and inspire women everywhere!!
#HeroOfThePlanet
Today, we celebrate Dr. Dawn Wright, Chief Scientist of Esri, for being honored with the 2023 WINGS Women of Discovery Lifetime Achievement Award. 🏆 Congratulations, Dawn! Your work inspires us every day.
#WINGSWorldQuest
#WoDGala2023
@deepseadawn
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ONE WEEK until I depart for the scientific adventure of a lifetime!
#ChallengerDeep
#DeeperSeaDawn
Special thanks to Du for this awesome animation of me and Riley as
@LEGO_Group
minifigs (original minifig design by
@cartonaut
) 🥰
Expedition website:
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Capping off my
#Earthweek
/
#earthday
celebrations by completing the
@LEGO_Group
GLOBE, featuring a Pirate 🏴☠️ of the Caribbean 😆+ a lady deepsea diver over Challenger Deep in the Pacific! Music by Daft Punk. Entire build journey at
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Did you know? A record 47 African-American women will graduate from West Point this weekend! 👩🏾🎓🙌🏾🥳
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I guess I’m in the “wright” place at the “wright” time, here in beautiful Arendal, Norway 🇳🇴!
#geohab2024
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I have ALWAYS wanted one of these cool
#Lego
mugs that you can stick your minifigs on, and now THANKS to
@mapsOverlord
, 🥰 my tea drinking will *never* be the same! ☕️ Mahalo Batgirl! Proudly cc-ing
@cartonaut
@AWhitTwit
@WolfBruening
@jmuilenburg
@legogradstudent
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To me, being
#BlackinNature
means being “free to fly” thru my local landscape on 2 wheels, 🚵🏾♀️ (video), even if I didn’t get to see this sweetie pie! 😊 Have a great
#BlackBirdersWeek2021
everyone!
@BlackAFinSTEM
It’s DAY 1 of
#BlackBirdersWeek2021
:
#BlackInNature
Highlight your best stories, favorite spots and activities, and what being in nature means to you.
GIVEAWAY: 2 pairs of Alice + Whittles Weekend Boots, and 1 Winner of Official BAFiS x
@bird_collective
t-shirt.
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“It’s just mind boggling.” More than 19,000 undersea volcanoes discovered!!!
cc
@seabed2030
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(1) to
@DrSianProctor
, 1st black woman to pilot a spacecraft (Crew Dragon) as a civilian astronaut on the SpaceX Inspiration 4 mission, Sep. 2021. Also a fantastic artist, community-college Geology prof, + poet. Read her poem "Seeker" into camera at ~10700 m depth.
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