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drawnonglass @[email protected] · 2026-01-26 · 01:23 UTC

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#UMassBoston just texted campus closed tomorrow. Not that anyone was unsure about that
"#UMB Emergency Alert: Due to inclement weather,#UMass #Boston will be closed Monday, Jan. 26. All classes and activities are canceled."

#umassboston #umb #umass #boston

drawnonglass @[email protected] · 2025-10-09 · 15:03 UTC

Leave it to student journalists to follow up after everyone else has lost interest #UMass #UMassBoston #Boston

https://umassmedia.com/39616/news/emki-and-residence-hall-incidents-unrelated/

#umass #umassboston #boston

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-10-06 · 23:29 UTC

A bizarre #sedimentary feature

Some layers in the #Neoproterozoic #Squantum Member of the #Roxbury #Conglomerate have been rolled up like a pie crust, into a tube. If this were a #tillite, as it once was thought to be, then it could have been caused by the drag of a #Gaskiers #glacier over the till. These rocks are mostly interpreted as deposited by submarine debris flows these days, in which case they could’ve been deformed during a slump and flow. Site of a field trip for #UMassBoston.

#sedimentary #neoproterozoic #squantum #roxbury #conglomerate #tillite

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-06-03 · 00:57 UTC

Anomalous pebble in layered #sedimentary #rock

An angular pebble is conformably surrounded by argillaceous and sandy layers in this #photograph of the #Neoproterozoic #Squantum Member of the #Roxbury Conglomerate. The wide range of clast sizes led to an interpretation as a #glacial #tillite thru the 1970s, but the Squantum Member is now mostly interpreted as a #debrisFlow (#debrite or #turbidite). My #photo.

#Boston #fieldTrip #UMassBoston

#sedimentary #rock #photograph #neoproterozoic #squantum #roxbury

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-05-25 · 15:18 UTC

Interbedded argillaceous & tuffaceous #sediments

These photos are of #Cambridge #Argillite, exposed above the #Squantum Member of the #Roxbury Conglomerate (#Neoproterozoic). Prior to the 1970s or so, the Squantum Member was interpreted as #glacial sediments; it's now broadly interpreted as debris flows, with the Cambridge being distal turbidites overlying it. I lead a field trip here for #UMassBoston. See captions.

#outcrop #fieldTrip #photo #rocks #tuff #Fufjilm #Venus 65mm #macro #Quincy

#sediments #cambridge #argillite #squantum #roxbury #neoproterozoic

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-02-24 · 23:38 UTC

Hello,

I teach an #introductory course to #dinosaurs in #EnvironmentalScience at #UMassBoston each spring.

I would be thrilled to host virtual or corporeal #guest #lecturers on subjects including #fossil preparation, reconstruction, dinosaurs in culture, #curation of fossils, et cetera. ½ hr to 50 minutes?

UMB is the only public research university in #Boston. We are diverse with ca. 40% first generation college students and 70% of undergraduate students being people of color.

Interested?

#introductory #dinosaurs #environmentalscience #umassboston #guest #lecturers

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-02-24 · 23:38 UTC

Hello,

I teach an #introductory course to #dinosaurs in #EnvironmentalScience at #UMassBoston each spring.

I would be thrilled to host virtual or corporeal #guest #lecturers on subjects including #fossil preparation, reconstruction, dinosaurs in culture, #curation of fossils, et cetera. ½ hr to 50 minutes?

UMB is the only public research university in #Boston. We are diverse with ca. 40% first generation college students and 70% of undergraduate students being people of color.

Interested?

#introductory #dinosaurs #environmentalscience #umassboston #guest #lecturers

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-02-24 · 23:38 UTC

Hello,

I teach an #introductory course to #dinosaurs in #EnvironmentalScience at #UMassBoston each spring.

I would be thrilled to host virtual or corporeal #guest #lecturers on subjects including #fossil preparation, reconstruction, dinosaurs in culture, #curation of fossils, et cetera. ½ hr to 50 minutes?

UMB is the only public research university in #Boston. We are diverse with ca. 40% first generation college students and 70% of undergraduate students being people of color.

Interested?

#boston #curation #fossil #lecturers #guest #umassboston

Chris White @[email protected] · 2023-02-24 · 23:38 UTC

Hello,

I teach an #introductory course to #dinosaurs in #EnvironmentalScience at #UMassBoston each spring.

I would be thrilled to host virtual or corporeal #guest #lecturers on subjects including #fossil preparation, reconstruction, dinosaurs in culture, #curation of fossils, et cetera. ½ hr to 50 minutes?

UMB is the only public research university in #Boston. We are diverse with ca. 40% first generation college students and 70% of undergraduate students being people of color.

Interested?

#introductory #dinosaurs #environmentalscience #umassboston #guest #lecturers