Earthologist in a Chem Dept. Fargo via St.Paul/Minneapolis, U Minn. Immigrant son 🇩🇪🇱🇹/🇮🇳, spouse to 🇮🇸. 2x Fulbright #T1D ally. ♥️Chicago. Geology! searchable via tootfinder.ch
"Public health is not a government bureaucracy. It is the reason most of us are alive. It is clean water, childhood vaccines, and food safety inspections. ... And women — often overlooked, often working without recognition — built much of it." 🧪💉
Fluorescence class demonstration by my wonderful colleague D. UV light stimulates fluorescent plexiglass plates / liquids; detection by a portable spectrometer with spectra projected on screen.
(Yes, I'll borrow his rig sometime to demonstrate fluorescent minerals!)
Update on hazardous chemical cleanup (or not) in groundwater at Leech Lake, #Minnesota 🧪⚒️
Reliable person I know, in a #Minneapolis suburb, today:
"Saw my first ice arrest this morning. At a church in Excelsior on Hwy 7 there was a man laying on the snow with 2 or 3 ice agents on top of him and another 2 or 3 agents running towards him. All with their masks on."
#Minnesota