Bill Haneberg
@haneberg.bsky.social
Geologist at the geohazard•climate•policy nexus. Hazard + risk. GIS, lidar, landslides, debris flows, floods. Kentucky Colonel in New Mexico. He/him.
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Late afternoon, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
November 22, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Late afternoon, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Lots in the world has been going sideways lately but I am pleased with today’s iteration of my high-altitude rustic bread-baking experiments. Pushing the hydration up to 86% seems to be the trick. And, yes, you’re correct: That’s a bowl of bucatini with leftover venison bolognese for dinner.
November 18, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Lots in the world has been going sideways lately but I am pleased with today’s iteration of my high-altitude rustic bread-baking experiments. Pushing the hydration up to 86% seems to be the trick. And, yes, you’re correct: That’s a bowl of bucatini with leftover venison bolognese for dinner.
A pleasant and unusually warm New Mexico autumn afternoon for a short hike. Looking eastward across the Albuquerque Basin from the Petroglyph National Monument volcanoes towards the faulted western face of Sandia Mountain along the eastern edge of the Rio Grande Rift.
November 17, 2025 at 2:20 AM
A pleasant and unusually warm New Mexico autumn afternoon for a short hike. Looking eastward across the Albuquerque Basin from the Petroglyph National Monument volcanoes towards the faulted western face of Sandia Mountain along the eastern edge of the Rio Grande Rift.
A soup of sorts: odds and ends and produce about to perish. White beans and carrots and broccoli rabe and mustard greens and yellow tomato puree and herbs, with crusts of homemade bread and a ten-dollar Malbec to savor on the patio under a dark sky while listening to coyotes yip in the distance.
November 16, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A soup of sorts: odds and ends and produce about to perish. White beans and carrots and broccoli rabe and mustard greens and yellow tomato puree and herbs, with crusts of homemade bread and a ten-dollar Malbec to savor on the patio under a dark sky while listening to coyotes yip in the distance.
I love green chile as much as the next New Mexican but there’s nothing as perfect as a batch of red made from local pods and simmering on an almost frosty autumn morning (potatoes frying next pan over; eggs and goat cheese on deck for omelets).
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I love green chile as much as the next New Mexican but there’s nothing as perfect as a batch of red made from local pods and simmering on an almost frosty autumn morning (potatoes frying next pan over; eggs and goat cheese on deck for omelets).
Lots to bemoan these days but I am NOT complaining that it’s nearly November in New Mexico and I can still walk out to the garden, pick a handful of fresh green chiles, and roast them for breakfast each morning.
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Lots to bemoan these days but I am NOT complaining that it’s nearly November in New Mexico and I can still walk out to the garden, pick a handful of fresh green chiles, and roast them for breakfast each morning.
Kings? No. Homemade flour tortillas with eggs, cheese, and hot New Mexico green chiles from the garden? Yes!
October 18, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Kings? No. Homemade flour tortillas with eggs, cheese, and hot New Mexico green chiles from the garden? Yes!
From the black & white archives: The Galveston Island Pleasure Pier jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico one dramatically back-lighted low-tide morning this day in 2015 (the Houston years).
September 7, 2025 at 6:34 PM
From the black & white archives: The Galveston Island Pleasure Pier jutting out into the Gulf of Mexico one dramatically back-lighted low-tide morning this day in 2015 (the Houston years).
Tuesday morning dog walk. Sometimes texture, tone, form, and space call for the starkness of black and white; other times, the desert palette and warm morning sun after a summer evening’s thunderstorm ask for color. Regardless, in New Mexico it’s always La Luz.
August 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Tuesday morning dog walk. Sometimes texture, tone, form, and space call for the starkness of black and white; other times, the desert palette and warm morning sun after a summer evening’s thunderstorm ask for color. Regardless, in New Mexico it’s always La Luz.
Flowers and fields. Looking down the Rio Grande valley, Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
August 18, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Flowers and fields. Looking down the Rio Grande valley, Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
However: I've been making residual topography maps since I started working with lidar DEMs about 25 years ago. Smooth a DEM with a mean, median, or Gaussian moving window then subtract it from the original DEM. Experiment with moving window size depending on the landforms you want to accentuate.
August 14, 2025 at 3:03 PM
However: I've been making residual topography maps since I started working with lidar DEMs about 25 years ago. Smooth a DEM with a mean, median, or Gaussian moving window then subtract it from the original DEM. Experiment with moving window size depending on the landforms you want to accentuate.
Sunrise garden breakfast with Hazel hoping for a bite of my bean and homegrown fire-roasted New Mexico green chile burrito. You’d want some, too, if you were here.
August 14, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Sunrise garden breakfast with Hazel hoping for a bite of my bean and homegrown fire-roasted New Mexico green chile burrito. You’d want some, too, if you were here.
The actual last DC photo on my phone is of a crab cake sandwich, fries, and stiff martini at Legal Seafood in the DCA terminal on the way out of town, so this’ll have to do: a hellish view southeast from the Interior Department rooftop terrace.
August 12, 2025 at 12:30 AM
The actual last DC photo on my phone is of a crab cake sandwich, fries, and stiff martini at Legal Seafood in the DCA terminal on the way out of town, so this’ll have to do: a hellish view southeast from the Interior Department rooftop terrace.
There's now amazing (and free...thank you, State of New Mexico and USGS 3DEP!) lidar coverage that we dared not to dream of 30 years ago. It's a fascinating geohazard problem. Maybe it's time to revisit the acid debris flows of Red River even as an old guy with a bad knee and aging lungs.
August 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
There's now amazing (and free...thank you, State of New Mexico and USGS 3DEP!) lidar coverage that we dared not to dream of 30 years ago. It's a fascinating geohazard problem. Maybe it's time to revisit the acid debris flows of Red River even as an old guy with a bad knee and aging lungs.
Hashbrowns, pintos, and spinach in a warm tortilla smothered with some of the summer’s first fire-roasted hot green chile, a mug of black coffee, and the aroma of chocolate flowers al fresco as the first rays of sun warm the air. Just another New Mexico Saturday morning.
July 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Hashbrowns, pintos, and spinach in a warm tortilla smothered with some of the summer’s first fire-roasted hot green chile, a mug of black coffee, and the aroma of chocolate flowers al fresco as the first rays of sun warm the air. Just another New Mexico Saturday morning.
Roasting this summer’s first batch of homegrown New Mexico green chiles over hot coals for tonight’s dinner: mushroom, onion, spinach, goat cheese, and green chile stacked enchiladas with handmade blue corn tortillas (optionally with a fried egg on top). They’ll have a nice kick to them. 🌶️
July 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Roasting this summer’s first batch of homegrown New Mexico green chiles over hot coals for tonight’s dinner: mushroom, onion, spinach, goat cheese, and green chile stacked enchiladas with handmade blue corn tortillas (optionally with a fried egg on top). They’ll have a nice kick to them. 🌶️
At my age, mile-high desert trail runs are more a combination of slogging, shuffling, and stumbling than poetry in motion but it’s still good to be out. Erosional remnants of Tertiary rift basin-fill Ceja Formation with normal-fault-bounded Sandia Mountains in the distance, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
July 6, 2025 at 2:44 PM
At my age, mile-high desert trail runs are more a combination of slogging, shuffling, and stumbling than poetry in motion but it’s still good to be out. Erosional remnants of Tertiary rift basin-fill Ceja Formation with normal-fault-bounded Sandia Mountains in the distance, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Priorities are important! For example, our regular Friday morning 50-ish km neighborhood seniors ride along the Rio Grande valley with a stop at Bike-In Coffee in Albuquerque—an amazing little place catering to cyclists— before the long and sweaty 10 km hill back up to the West Mesa.
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Priorities are important! For example, our regular Friday morning 50-ish km neighborhood seniors ride along the Rio Grande valley with a stop at Bike-In Coffee in Albuquerque—an amazing little place catering to cyclists— before the long and sweaty 10 km hill back up to the West Mesa.
Light mesa, dark mesa. Grassy remnants of ancient landslides along a doubly obsequent fault-line scarp, bouldery black basalt colluvium slopes. Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Light mesa, dark mesa. Grassy remnants of ancient landslides along a doubly obsequent fault-line scarp, bouldery black basalt colluvium slopes. Petroglyph National Monument, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Summer Sunday bosque scene, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June 22, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Summer Sunday bosque scene, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Morning sky with clouds and virga, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
June 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Morning sky with clouds and virga, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Desert scene from my morning walk, Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico.
May 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Desert scene from my morning walk, Petroglyph National Monument, New Mexico.
It’s the day that so many in New Mexico dread: I’ve reached the end of last summer’s fire-roasted farmstand green chile from the freezer. It’ll be a tough couple of months before even the earliest of this year’s crop is ready to pick from our backyard plants. 🌶️ 🧵
May 21, 2025 at 5:33 PM
It’s the day that so many in New Mexico dread: I’ve reached the end of last summer’s fire-roasted farmstand green chile from the freezer. It’ll be a tough couple of months before even the earliest of this year’s crop is ready to pick from our backyard plants. 🌶️ 🧵
Sometimes you have to step away from the craziness and enjoy a perfect New Mexico high desert afternoon. Veg and lamb loin chops over hardwood coals; Hazel is available to provide culinary advice on request. Old Forester 100 rye on the rocks just out of the photo.
May 12, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Sometimes you have to step away from the craziness and enjoy a perfect New Mexico high desert afternoon. Veg and lamb loin chops over hardwood coals; Hazel is available to provide culinary advice on request. Old Forester 100 rye on the rocks just out of the photo.
Afternoon stucco and sky, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
May 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Afternoon stucco and sky, Albuquerque, New Mexico.