Gareth Funning

Gareth Funning

@gfun.earth

Faculty at UCR! Earthquakes! Fault creep! InSAR! GNSS! Seismology! He/him! Executive Editor at @weareseismica.bsky.social! Yes!

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Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Hey there! I'm Gareth, a professor at the University of California, Riverside. I am a geophysicist who uses geodesy and seismology to study the earthquake source, fault creep, transient motions, geothermal fields, landslides... you name it! I also like travel, seeing live music and art. And owls!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD
@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social

I think some silent scientists should read this thread.

Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH@gavinyamey.bsky.social

I was kindly invited to give the final plenary at this year's American Society of Bioethics & Humanities annual meeting—I discussed being a global health professor who engages in advocacy One thing I got asked is: should scientists or healthcare professionals remain politically neutral?

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

I am chairing a Senate committee meeting next Thursday, which (as observant people in earthquake country likely know) is the day of the Great California ShakeOut. The committee analyst was only too happy to put it on the agenda!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Fucking barbarians

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

WASHINGTON (AP) - Pentagon says the firing squad execution of Fort Hood shooter Nidal Malik Hasan will be livestreamed in December.

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

We're not in Maryland anymore! Today I am hanging out with soil scientists in the high desert (and later giving a talk). It's a rather lovely day.

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Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Some Nancy Grace Roman-ology: the great woman immortalized in Lego form. And an example of one of the mirrors on the telescope that bears her name.

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

I very much enjoyed the tour. If someone could arrange another facility (Johnson? Ames? Marshall?) for me to go and visit next week, to keep the streak going, that'd be awesome!

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Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

A couple of toys for @markpanning.seismology.space, I think? One of the LEMS lunar seismometers, in for testing, before Artemis takes it to the Moon. And the Dragonfly drone (allegedly) under some kind of anti-static blanket, being prepped for its eventual flight off to Titan.

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

This is the largest clean room of its type, it fills the whole building! Seems a little empty right now – only thing they were working on there today was the aforementioned Dragonfly. But they assembled the Nancy Grace Roman telescope in there and are rightly very proud of it!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

This is Integration and Testing – we got clean tents for instrument payload assembly, and a whole load of super heavy duty torture testing apparatuses for putting your spacecraft through the wringer before you let 'em go to space...

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Dr. Katie I.
@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social

My thread got a bit broken in my furious typing... here's my $0.02 on today's useless GEO office hour.

Dr. Katie I.@hellyeahcorks.bsky.social

None of what is happening is a "golden age" and I'm fucking tired of hearing that phrase.

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

NSF GEO webinar summary: we have reduced programs from 15 down to 3, we have no deadlines, we have no guidelines on project size, duration or budget, we have no money

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

My working life is not all about seeing donkeys on my way between my home and my office. Sometimes (yesterday) you get to visit someone else's campus and see what large mammals they have kicking around (JPL, mule deer)!

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Gareth Funning
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And one of the staff (Reynato) kindly offered to take three of us on a tour of the campus to show us all the cool things – the Mars Yard (with model of the Perseverance rover), the clean rooms used for assembly, mission control, the museum...

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

So all in all it was a great day – I learned a lot about potential uses of OPERA data products and got to see lots of cool things. And (importantly) I also got my hands on some NISAR merch! Thanks to the OPERA staff for the invite!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

My working life is not all about seeing donkeys on my way between my home and my office. Sometimes (yesterday) you get to visit someone else's campus and see what large mammals they have kicking around (JPL, mule deer)!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

The occasion was the OPERA Stakeholder Engagement Workshop, attended by ~20 people in person (pictured) and 200 online. OPERA is a NASA-funded project making value-added remote sensing data products operationally (surface displacement time series, surface disturbance, surface inundation and more)!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Pardon my French, but what the fuck is Julienite? #CampaignForRealMinerals

Mineral Cup & Ore Cup@mineralcup.bsky.social

#MinCup26 Round 1 Match 11 It's a pair of minerals that pull off near-magical tricks with their properties as ubiquitous #Calcite is up against rarity #Julienite. VOTE: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re... RESULTS: www.mineralcup.org/2026/vote-re...

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Heading into work after a couple of Zoom meetings that I took at home, I was so lost in my thoughts that I nearly missed five donkeys seeking shade under a tree (and six more in the street)!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

This is all awesome, not least because one of the interviewees is Emily Brodsky (pictured), and the last conversation I had with her was at about 2 am on Monday night, staggering back after the SCEC karaoke, on whether she would sing next year (unlikely) and what (maybe Bob Dylan, still unlikely).

Will Thomas@williamthomas.bsky.social

In today's AIP History Weekly Edition, Anna Doel looks at the variety of ways that recent oral history interviewees found their way into careers in the physical sciences. (Contra the photo, none of them through finding the secret door by the last light of Durin's Day.) #WomeninSTEM

aip.orgNew oral histories: Women’s experiences in moving into scienceAIP History Weekly Edition: September 4, 2026
Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

In Palm Springs for the SCEC annual meeting, and once again I am seeing pictures of me on the screen (e.g. from Roland Bürgmann's keynote talk). Apparently I like to stand next to Roger Bilham

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

This gets into the forensic process (identifying changes in Planet Labs optical imagery) used to identify the source of the massive flooding seen in Nepal. Well worth half an hour of your time.

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Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Working from home today. The sound of braying from the park across the street was just about audible over the noise of my (overtaxed) air conditioner. (Optical zoom on my new phone seems to work well!)

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

All of the Jupyter notebooks used in the sessions are available through GitHub here: github.com/isceplus/202... (Note that the OSL online system that we used in the course is operated by ASF and only available during the course, so please don't bother the EarthScope staff with requests for access.)

github.comGitHub - isceplus/2026-isceplus: Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+)Contains materials for the 2026 Technical Short Course: InSAR Processing and Analysis (ISCE+) - isceplus/2026-isceplus
Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Stuff that should be of particular interest, compared to past years' courses (whose videos are also available on YouTube): - Processing Sentinel-1 TOPS data with ISCE3 (day 2) - A tour of NISAR standard products (day 3) - Using NISAR data in MintPy (day 4) - PS/DS analysis with Dolphin (day 5)

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

It's that time of year again - the EarthScope ISCE+ course in InSAR processing and analysis is underway! Here (on his short course debut) is Francisco Delgado leading us through a first modeling exercise using InSAR displacements over Okmok Volcano!

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

We just got in from running errands, and this chap marches up to me as if demanding nose scritches (happily administered) and then settled in to munch on some of the excess grass outside our house.

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

It's that time of year! Please consider submitting to AGU session G024: Transient Deformation and Creep Processes in the Earthquake Cycle! Studies using geodetic, seismic, geologic and/or experimental data are all welcome, as well as numerical and analytical models. agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

agu.confex.comTransient Deformation and Creep Processes in the Earthquake CycleTransient deformation and aseismic slip processes play a fundamental role in the earthquake cycle, yet their spatiotemporal characteristics and underlying physics remain incompletely understood. Advan...
Gareth Funning
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[On behalf of co-conveners Seda Özarpacı, Junle Jiang and Kaj Johnson. Cassie Hanagan (USGS) and Kathryn Materna (CU Boulder) are our invited speakers. I can't wait!]

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

The data firehose has been turned on! Have fun, InSAR-mavens!

Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD@ericjfielding.bsky.social

NISAR global L-band provisional data products are now released in the NASA EarthData repository, accessible from the ASF and EarthData search. NISAR L-band data acquired on June 17, 2026 and later available as level 0 through level 2 and level 3 products. nisar-docs.asf.alaska.edu/availability...

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Axel Periollat
@axelper.bsky.social

Excited to share that our paper with @gfun.earth is now published! We investigate how probabilistic interseismic locking models relate to megathrust earthquake rupture, using the 2025 Mw 8.8 Kamchatka earthquake as a case study. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.comLinking Interseismic Locking to Coseismic Rupture: The 2025 M<sub>w</sub> 8.8 Kamchatka EarthquakeA probabilistic locking approach identifies persistent asperities that control where large earthquakes nucleate and rupture A fully data-driven method infers locking patterns without prescribing ...
Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

Got my comment in today, opposing the proposed rule change that would politicize the award of scientific funding and place many obstructions in the way of scientists for no good reason. It is the last day. If you haven't done it already, please write something: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...

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elizabethginexi.bsky.social@elizabethginexi.bsky.social

My summary of OMB's proposed Federal Financial Assistance rule was based on 22 years as an NIH Program Official and the damage I saw to science funding would be. I want to widen the lens now: scientists are not the only ones who should be alarmed. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/this-new-o...

elizabethginexi.substack.comThis new OMB Rule Is Bigger Than Science. Much Bigger.This image was generated by Google AI (Gemini)

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Count Binface
@countbinface.bsky.social

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Gareth Funning
@gfun.earth

something something something bear grills

Dom Ervolina@dominicervolina.com

"Okay, your first mistake here is not letting the fire die out before putting the meat on the grill, but I honestly think your main issue is that you put a bear in charge of making the food."