Clinker in the Cretaceous Blackhawk Formation, Utah More info on this one here geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey… Castlegate Sandstone in background Sunny ☀️ spring field day out looking at coals

I love teaching about the Cenozoic climate change record 😍

It was great to bring back our department student poster session this year. Our students are 🤩 awesome!

Funny hat day University of Utah, @UofUGG, UofU College of Mines & Earth Sciences, College of Science Congrats 🎉 to all the 2023 graduates!

Pretty psyched about rare earth elements in coal (and adjacent strata) these days. #energytransition

Field work in the Cretaceous Ferron Sandstone, Utah @UofUGG Haley, Dr Emma Morris

It’s spring around here, and I’m pretty happy about it. #wasatchlove 🏃‍♀️

What is the going internal and external hourly charge rate for portable X-ray fluorescence instrument (aka using another PI's pXRF instrument)? Thanks for any leads.

Looking for several early career researchers (or others!) to serve on SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology’s Research Council. Great opportunity to get more involved with SEPM. Please RT and reach out if you know of anyone who might be interested. Photo of huge ammonite to get your attention 😉

For the past 40+ years, Utah has enjoyed being a net energy exporter. Energy production in Utah began decreasing in 2015 and continued to drop until it crossed the consumption line in 2020, flipping Utah back to being a net energy importer. Learn more–geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey…

My 11 yr old is doing a summer day camp today, and they are visiting the Great Salt Lake. Ooids are on the agenda! I am clearly much more excited about this than she is. 🤓 #daughterofasedimentologist

Sometimes you have to stop running for a moment to appreciate the slickenlines 😍 Triassic-Jurassic Nugget Sandstone, Wasatch Mtns, Utah #wasatchlove

Cross bedding in quartzite of the Mesoproterozoic Uinta Mountain Group, Uinta Mtns., Utah My neon yellow-green fingernail for scale 💅🏿

Update: It’s summer around here, and I’m pretty happy about it. 🏃‍♀️ 😃

Our new open access paper: Rare earth element enrichment trends in coal-bearing strata of the Uinta Region Congrats to student advisee first author, Haley , and co-authors, Diego Fernandez, Ryan Gall, Michael Vanden Berg, & Andrew Giebel. Enjoy! :) frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

.UofU Geology & Geophysics Associate Professor Lauren Birgenheier (Dr. Lauren Birgenheier), who also serves as Faculty Fellow for the College of Science, joined Cool Science Radio to discuss the potential of extracting rare earth elements from existing coal mines. kpcw.org/podcast/cool-s…