Colby Moorberg

@colbydigssoil.bsky.social

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Husband, dad, soil and wetland scientist, academic, bike commuter, advocate for open textbooks and active transport, and sourdough baker https://linktr.ee/moorberg

A bearded man with glasses wearing a bike helmet and a cap that says "I Bike I Vote".
A scene on a bike trail - a selfie with two boys on bikes and a guy riding a bike towing a bike trailer.
The cover of the Rage Against the Machine album, The Battle of Los Angeles with the album name spray painted inside the sprayer painted outline of a man raising his fist
A longtail cargo eBike hauling a balance bike on a milk crate on the front rack. The caption says, "I'm told my bike is the Paw Patroller and we're chasing down Mayor Humdinger. I think I might call it the 'Pa Patroller' from now on."
A little boy sits on a cargo bike
A half dozen sourdough baguettes on a cooling rack on a stove top
A T-Rex skeleton
A hydric soil profile exhibiting a layer of dark black FeS (iron monosulfide) a few centimeters below the surface. This soil would meet the A18 - Iron Monosulfide Field Indicator of Hydric Soil.
Oak logs over 2 feet in diameter ready to be milled into lumber
mammatus clouds
Bike riders riding in a group
A text message from FedEx saying they tried to deliver a package
Two sourdough bread loaves
A bike crankset spinning without a chain
A new bottom bracket with a bike in a repair stand in the background
A group of cyclists on a Final Friday Critical Mass Ride
Callery pear buyback dates. More details at the website linked in this post.
Two soda bread loaves on an oven peel
Two sourdough loaves on a cooling rack next to a cast iron pan with sourdough cinnamon rolls
A boy rides his bike down a dip in a mountain bike trail and up the other side
A spiral bound laboratory manual with a collage of soil profile pictures on the cover
A music playlist featuring Weezer, 311, Ben Folds, Sublime, etc.
A man taking a selfie while wearing "The Original Bugshirt" with netting over his face.
Two fortune cookie fortunes that say, "make it a win-win situation" and "you hold the key to success"
A Surly Skid Loader eBike with studded tires, fenders, and pogies
An app review by Colby Moorberg that says, "I was fine with this app until at full blast my phone started yelling "From WIBW TV a First Alert Weather Update has arrived". GTFO with that literal noise."
Two sourdough bread loaves on a cooling rack
A spatchcocked chicken on a cutting board next to foil packets
A driveside view of a kid's mountain bike from the 90s
The frame of a kid's bike on a bike repair stand in a driveway
Comment screenshot that says: "Each bar of this song has two dotted quavers, a crochet, and two more dotted quavers. If you think about this in 16ths per bar, this equated to the notes equalling 3, 3, 4, 3, 3. A Primus pyramid has four triangles and one square that make up the shape. This rhythm literally makes the song a pyramid. I love it. I love Radiohead."
Studded Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro tires on the front wheel of a Surly Skid Loader eBike
A screenshot from LinkedIn games post-game card that says "Smarter than 90% of Colbys" for Zip #239
Students watch a video on soil water movement on a projector screen in a dark laboratory
A maroon colored fungus puffball getting stepped on repeatedly causing spores to puff into the air
Screen shot of text that reads: "This story was edited by Meghan Keane. The visual editor is Beck Harlan. We'd love to hear from you. Leave us a voicemail at 202-216-9823, or email us at LifeKit@npr.org."
A screenshot of a Reddit post of someone asking what their soil texture is based on a jar test with a picture of soil particles settled in a jar.
A child in a rain poncho riding his bike down a street on his way to school.
Screenshot of an email from the KS Forest Service
The video starts with showing the front of a bike from the rider's point of view then pans to show a Bobcat skid loader driving down a street
Students in a hay field measuring and recording slope and ground cover
The Budweiser Clydesdale horse team and wagon with a crowd of onlookers
Colby and his son posing in front of a tree
A black and blue kids bike in a bike repair stand in a driveway
A riders point of view of the front end of a bike. The riders left knee and right foot are business. A morning shadow shows to the right of the bike on the bike path.
Colby standing in a soil pit holding a soil prism, a vertical structural unit of soil
A bike on a bridge over the tree-lined Pottawatomie Creek
A small dog with a blue mohawk and a severe under bite sitting on a barbershop chair
A hand bar of shaving soap wrapped in a red label with a picture of a young man with shaving cream on his face and the Arko brand at the bottom.
An office wall with various signs and decorations, including a bike saddle and handlebars attached to look like a cattle skull hanging on the wall
Colby speaks to the Final Friday critical mass riders in front of a black fountain in the middle of a garden. Photo courtesy of Ryan Wilson.
Colby stands in front of an inflatable tunnel that says "unlock the secrets in the soil"
Colby in a red and white Hawaiian shirt bike jersey and matching cap standing next to his wife, Stacy in a black tank. Both are holding beers and standing in front of the craft bee trailer.
Three cyclists stand next to their bikes at the start of RAGBRAI
Two flip flops sole to sole on their edge showing the old flip flop in the background is wider than the new flip flop in front.
Gray underwear on grass on the side of the road