Dr. Elisa Bergslien

@dnapl.bsky.social

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Scientist, Associate Prof, environmental science, forensic geoscience & general earth science. XRF & XRD. Opinions my own. she/her @DNAPL on Twitter from March 2009. Author of An Introduction to Forensic Geoscience. Photographs by me unless otherwise noted

Beautiful bracelet in dusky blue and silver.
Colored pencil sketch of two very round flowers with thin single rows of lots of petals and yellow centers surrounded by green thick bulbous leaves. Hints of the background with a wooden separator on the right.
Colored pencil sketch of a blue teapot sitting on a brown cracked tree stump with blurry garden/vegetation background
Close up photograph of a white wrist wearing a bracelet made of alternating sets of antique brass and antique silver looking rings with cross bands of sets of three beads - two small white at the ends and blue green in the middle.
Photograph of a delicate white hand wearing a lovely silver ring composed of rings and dots of silver in a chain that goes all the way around over a wooden floor.
Awkward colored pencil sketch of a wood floor with a small green squash sitting on it.
Pencil sketch of a tea pot with steam coming out with an image of a Cheshire Cat face grinning. Text on the left says “How do you know I’m mad?” “You must be, or you wouldn’t have come here.”
Colored pencil sketch of a bottle of ink colored suspiciously like an eggplant sitting on a textured piece of blue fabric as a draped background.
Colored pencil sketch of a dragonfruit cut in half on off white dotted paper.
Pencil sketch of a eye with a slightly pointy pupil surrounded by scale patterns with the words "You Dense Argumentative Spoon!" written on top.
Photograph of a white hand wearing four rings - mystic quartz on pinky, celtic knot on ring finger, big green quartz on middle finger and moonstone pear on pointer finger.
Photo outside my building at work. It should be oranger! Much oranger!
Photo of an acrylic rooster pendent with very colorful patterned feathers sitting on top of my weather notebook.
Pencil sketch of the words "Trash Fire's Burning World Keeps Turning" with a sketch of a dumpster fire a little tiny Earth and lines and circles and hatch marks for decoration.
Short video of a stream surrounded by vegetation with two deer crossing and one getting a drink
Photograph of a left hand wearing a pretty blue opal inlayed ring on ring finger and a weird blue plastic ring on middle finger resting on a notebook page.
Pencil sketch on cream dotted paper of an unused Yogi brand tea bag placed neatly on a saucer with little flower pattern around the edge.
Photo showing a white right hand with a tear drop shaped lapis ring on middle finger, an oval moonstone on the ring finger and a silver snake ring on the pinky finger.
Photograph of a thin orange cat happily burrowed into a pile of colorful shirts on a wood floor with a mildly inquisitive look on his face.
Photograph of a tortie kitty with a look of inquiry on her face sitting squarely in the green fabric storage cube I was about to put something in.
Sketch of troposphere and bottom of stratosphere with a weather balloon expanding in size and a Mount Everest and some other notes.
Photograph of a bunch of little clusters of light purple flowers the form sort of a star pattern against a background of little green leaves.
Photograph of a tortie cat on top of a pillow in the attic all covered in cobwebs doing her best "what?" look.
Short video of a stream with ducks swimming with greenery on the banks. You can hear bird song mostly sparrows and red-winged blackbirds and can hear the water flowing.
Pencil sketches of Rose Order Pea Family flowers structure with banner, wings and keel and sketch of Locust Tree pinnately divided leaf.
Photo of a hand with a multi-stone black opal pendant, a moonstone in the lovely decorated setting and a blue opal inlay ring sparkling in the sun.
Pencil sketch describing dicots - plants with floral parts mostly in 4s and 5s with sketches of parts and buttercup, rose, gentian and aster.
Photo of a small open notebook with pencil sketches of three plants. Two-grooved milkvetch, wild licorice and breadroot. Rose order pea subfamily licorice tribe.
Close up photograph of the inside of a ring band that says "Sterling" and what looks like half a right arrow TT then half a left arrow?
Photo showing alarmingly bright yellow lab apron along with a purple nitrile glove. Over industrial grey floor tiles and some tubing.
Silver ring resting on the side on the x-ray emission area inside the lead lined box.
Science Summer Camps at the Whitworth Ferguson Planetarium Hands-on exploration with scientists in state-of-the-art facilities. Five full days 9am - 4pm - planetarium programs - final showcase for families
Photograph of a blue-green cotton dress covered with black branches, white and pink flowers and black starlings with orange beaks, on top of which is a hand displaying a pretty jade ring and and a three stone pink opal ring.
Photograph of a hand wearing two rings - a silver snake on the little finger and a labradorite ring on the next finger - on some black fabric with orange and brown snakes, dark green leaves and pale yellow flowers.
Photo of a tortie kitty sprawled across my spreadsheet printout and pile of exit slips I am grading.
Photo of an orange kitty laying on a fuzzy dark green blanket and all curled up with one foreleg stretched out and he is peaking out from under his armpit?
Close up photograph of a shale completely covered by fossils. The whole surface has textures like lace and little dots and branching lumps.
Close up photo of a cluster of white flowers edged with reddish pink. Tree branch.
Photograph of a persons neck showing off a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton necklace. They are wearing a dark red shirt with a large leaf and flower pattern and a blue white and red striped flannel shirt.
Wrap around ring with a sort of leaf vibe on sizer
Ring image
Close up of a jade? ring.
Photograph of students in the rain standing near huge puddles and a couple of small waterfalls.
Sketches of rugose coral, crinoids, brachiopods, a bivalve and some other random marine stuff with a yellow submarine wandering through.
Photo of a orange cat kind of folded in half so his back leg is over his face. He is lying on a dark green blanket.
Photograph of a sandstone with really weird blobby shapes kinda like paint blobs dripping through each other. This is looking at the bottom of the rock.
Photograph of a beige with red staining sandstone showing bioturbation - trace fossils of tubes lined with parallel ridges the weave in and out around each other.
Orange kitty curled up almost into a sphere on top of a pile of colorful towels, using them as a nest.
Photo of two books. This Way Up by Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman on the left and A City on Mars by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith on the right.
Forecast showing Monday thru Wednesday going from lows of 43 to highs in the 60s the the temperature dropping to lows in the mid 20s and snow on Saturday.
White car parked outside decorated like the Ghostbusters car down to tiny no ghosts icons on the wheels
Orange cat curled up kinda upside down stretching his foreleg on a dark green blanket. He has a red spring toy in the middle of his curl next to his belly.
Close up photograph of a lemon basque cheesecake fresh out of the oven and still all puffy, surrounded by browned parchment paper.
Same cheesecake which has collapsed down into the springform pan.
Photograph of said basque cheesecake surrounded by browned parchment paper. It has a nice dome that rises over the edge of the pan.
Black background with light yellow and green flares, with central red and green leaved stylized poinsettia surrounded by yellow and green transparent light ribbons and decorated with curly queues.
Black background with blue glowing flames in a kinda diamond pattern, with symmetrical pattern of golden colored acanthus leaves and decorative purple and pink swirls.
Black background with pink, cyan, blue and purple nebula bursts. Top left and bottom right have rainbow triangle pulses of light. In the center are the words Rebel, make art, write things, talk to people decorated in bulbs of color with white halos around them. In much smaller yellow letters under the word people it says, "Eek! People!"
Black background with dim green, yellow and blue lights, with a symmetrical pattern of curls in the middle followed by four clusters of seven green leaves, four red rose like flowers, topped with four yellow rose like flowers, with more red roses between them on top of the green leaves.
Photo of a tortie cat sitting smack in the middle of some upside down wrapping paper, helping me wrap a present.