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Flying from BUR instead of the usual LAX gave me different views of the LA landscape this weekend #losangeles #geology #labasin

I had a great day at the Caltech Sismo Lab today where I gave a talk about the Mars InSight results that came from my group. It’s always a privilege to be invited there, the place where big names like Charles Richter worked.

Spending the day at Caltech to give the seismo lab seminar!

San Antonio at night

Interesting talk last week by prof. Sonia Tikoo-Schantz

As I stepped off the bus in Santa Monica, I saw the Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

Strike-slip fault model demonstration in the lab

Judging middle and high school science fair projects! Reminds me of AGU meetings but with more variety.

Back on campus. I survived the first day of class!

Bathroom sign at the Freeman Public Library in Houston, TX. Don’t worry, men can be astronauts too. They had and equivalent sign for their bathroom.

With 3 out of 5 students with Covid this week, I had to be flexible for the final and most took it online, each running their own Zoom meeting to be able to share their screen with me but not everyone else. So I was in 4 Zooms at the same time. A record for me

Salton Sea

Lunch with former undergraduate student Valeria Villa after she gave a talk about her PhD research at Caltech