GEOLOGY!

[Foggy]

Excellent news.

[shannon]

EEEEEEP!!

Just got notified that a poster on my research has been accepted for one of the tracks at the GSA (Geological Society of America) "Connects 2024" annual meeting in Anaheim, California (22-25 September)

Guess which girl needs to book her flight and hotel now??

The last couple of months have alternated between "Holy Shit, I'm a Girl!" and "Holy Shit, I'm a Scientist!"

[Frater I*I]

EEEEEEP!!

Just got notified that a poster on my research has been accepted for one of the tracks at the GSA (Geological Society of America) "Connects 2024" annual meeting in Anaheim, California (22-25 September)

Guess which girl needs to book her flight and hotel now??

The last couple of months have alternated between "Holy Shit, I'm a Girl!" and "Holy Shit, I'm a Scientist!"

Imma gonna go with "Holy shit it's a girl scientist", since there are so few women in STEM

[shannon]

Imma gonna go with "Holy shit it's a girl scientist", since there are so few women in STEM

Girl with a rock hammer, that's me.

[AndyinPA]

[Uninformed]

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[Foggy]

Will wonders never cease?

[Gene Kooper]

"Using lidar to examine tsunami traces on select sites in Alaska". (Basically I'm using lidar data to look at terrain "roughness" and changes in channel sinousity in landslide tsunami outwash plains).

Forget layman's terms, do you speak English....?

What? I understood everything she said

I too, also understood everything she said.

Congratulations on completing the first year of your graduate studies and the recognition of your research at the AAAS conference. I'm sure you will enjoy the couple of geomorphology courses this coming year. I really enjoyed my undergraduate geomorphology and graduate fluvial geomorphology courses and found them to be very valuable in my later work as a hydrogeologist.

All the best in your future studies and research from a simple rockhead geologist. And allow me to be the first here to utter the soon to be, "Dr. Shannon."

And, please consider posting some of your research here, esp. images of topographic anomalies and changes in channel sinuosities detected by LiDAR.

I'm currently involved in a project where I'm scanning fossil beds with a terrestrial 3D laser scanner.

[shannon]

[ And allow me to be the first here to utter the soon to be, "Dr. Shannon."

And, please consider posting some of your research here, esp. images of topographic anomalies and changes in channel sinuosities detected by LiDAR.

I'm currently involved in a project where I'm scanning fossil beds with a terrestrial 3D laser scanner.

I have a long way to go before I get the "Dr." part. Let me finish my M.S. first.

And I would love to see that project!!

[MikeDunford]

[ And allow me to be the first here to utter the soon to be, "Dr. Shannon."

And, please consider posting some of your research here, esp. images of topographic anomalies and changes in channel sinuosities detected by LiDAR.

I'm currently involved in a project where I'm scanning fossil beds with a terrestrial 3D laser scanner.

I have a long way to go before I get the "Dr." part. Let me finish my M.S. first.

And I would love to see that project!!

Hey, geosciences - awesome! What area?

[shannon]

Hey, geosciences - awesome! What area?

Primary field is geomorphology with a secondary in sedimentary study and Quaternary Environments.

[MikeDunford]

Nice. I was a paleo lab tech for a while, back around the turn of the century.

[jcolvin2]

But I have to blow my own horn a bit. Last month was the American Association for the Advancement of Science (Pacific Division) conference in San Diego. I was invited to present a poster on my thesis research "Using lidar to examine tsunami traces on select sites in Alaska". (Basically I'm using lidar data to look at terrain "roughness" and changes in channel sinousity in landslide tsunami outwash plains).

There were 137 posters, 4 from Central Washington University. Mix of undergrads, grads, and PhDs.

I placed second in the physics, chemistry, and geosciences division.

Geology at CWU? My wife ended up really getting into geology over the last year and a half. She watched a bunch of online lectures made available by Nick Zentner of CWU.

We are now house-hunting in the Seattle area, Armed with an armchair enthusiast's knowledge of geology (along with information about when building codes changed), my wife has eliminated about 90% of the homes in the area as unsuitable due to their vulnerability to earthquakes.

Congratulations on your fine showing at the AAAS conference.

[Gene Kooper]

I'm currently involved in a project where I'm scanning fossil beds with a terrestrial 3D laser scanner.

And I would love to see that project!!

I'd love to say a bunch more, but....

What I will say is that I named the locale, "Rock Ridge." I'm using two survey instruments on this project. One has a terrestrial camera built into the GNSS antenna that takes a photo every 1/2 second. After processing the individual photos, the result is a colorized dense 3D point cloud. My other instrument is a combination total station/robot with scanner. It is capable of scanning up to 30,000 laser points/second. I'm using them to document the georeferenced positions of individual fossils before they are extracted from the formation. I place the detailed scans onto a base map created from a high-resolution drone survey.

It's the geologic equivalent of the old kids' game of Pick Up Sticks. I'm sure you and Mike would have a blast at Rock Ridge!

[Foggy]

Off Topic

Because of Gene, I have become a huge fan of the Colorado School of Mines. Now I wish I had gone there for undergraduate school, honestly. I'm a fan of Mines football, too also. I had several of their games in my YouTubeTV library, but they expired. I'll have new ones this year, football season is right 'round the corner! First game September 5th vs. West Texas A&M!

[shannon]

Geology at CWU? My wife ended up really getting into geology over the last year and a half. She watched a bunch of online lectures made available by Nick Zentner of CWU.

We are now house-hunting in the Seattle area, Armed with an armchair enthusiast's knowledge of geology (along with information about when building codes changed), my wife has eliminated about 90% of the homes in the area as unsuitable due to their vulnerability to earthquakes.

Congratulations on your fine showing at the AAAS conference.

Any of Nick's videos since September, I'm in the audience. (It's a required class, "current topics in Geology")

Good luck with the search. Snohomish County is pretty good.

[John Thomas8]

[shannon]

Pretty niffy hydrothermal eruption!

[jemcanada2]

I’m so happy to see so many geologists and physical geographers here!

I mostly studied glacial geomorphology because where I live has been covered in glaciers during several ice ages. We studied glacial till, moraines, drumlins, eskers, and kames.

I really just enjoyed escaping the lecture hall to go on field trips.

[keith]

I gotta say I did not understand 95% of the jargon, but I did get a reasonble grasp of the drift of what was said.

Before I switched to computers, I got far enough down the Physics and Chemistry path that I know how to read a scientific paper and get the gist of it without delving into the exact details if I don't need to. The first principle (in my system) is to figure out what it DOESN'T say.

I have a PhD candidate anecdote to relate here but I'm being dragged of to the train to lunch with friends. TTFN

[Chilidog]

This is hilarious

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[jemcanada2]

On a sidewalk in my neighbourhood!

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

I am in San Francisco for a wedding. The groom’s mother is from Sylacauga, Alabama, AKA, The Marble City.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylacauga,_Alabama

Sylacauga is known for its fine white marble bedrock.[3] This was discovered shortly after settlers moved into the area and has been quarried ever since. The marble industry was the first recorded industry in the Sylacauga area.
Sylacauga is the site of the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person. On November 30, 1954, a 4 kg (9 lb) piece of what became known as the Hodges Fragment from the Sylacauga Meteorite crashed through the roof of an Oak Grove house, bounced off a radio, and badly bruised Ann Hodges, who was taking an afternoon nap.[4]

Known as "The Marble City", Sylacauga was developed on a solid deposit of what is claimed to be the finest marble in the world. Some buildings in the country, such as the United States Supreme Court, the Al Jolson Shrine in California, the Woolworth building in Houston, Texas, and many others have been constructed and ornamented with Sylacauga marble.

The first recorded discovery of marble was in 1820 by Dr. Edward Gantt, a physician who had accompanied General Andrew Jackson through the area in 1814. Even Gantt probably did not realize the extent of this calcium carbonate deposit. The deposit is part of the "Murphy Marble Belt", extending 32 by 1.5 miles (51.5 by 2.4 km) by 400 feet (120 m) deep. It is the world's largest commercial deposit of madre cream marble.[citation needed]

The reputation of Sylacauga marble producers was shown by use of their marble on numerous building projects throughout the nation. Alabama Marble Company supplied marble for the 19th-century projects in Washington, DC, the Washington Monument and Lincoln Memorial. Marble supplied for the Washington monument was so like its Italian counterpart, Carrara marble, that it was placed aside until a confirmation of its origin could be made. Moretti-Harrah, in a 3+1⁄2 year project shared with Gray-Knox Marble Company of Knoxville, supplied much of the marble for the U.S. Supreme Court building, including 36 massive interior columns measuring 22’ long x 3’4” in diameter.

Listing all the buildings that use this lustrous stone would be difficult. Other memorable projects are the Dime Savings Bank (New York), the Mercedes-Benz showroom (New York), the Chicago Post Office, the Alabama Archives Building, the Chrysler Mausoleum (New York), and the Al Jolson Shrine (California). Cream marble from Sylacauga can be found in hotels, offices, mausoleums, memorials and homes across the country.

Noted sculptor Gutzon Borglum, creator of the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, sculpted a masterpiece from Alabama marble – the bust of Abraham Lincoln. It is located in the rotunda of the nation's Capitol. Borglum commented that the fine texture of Alabama marble enabled him to portray the expression of kindness on Lincoln's face that he had never been able to do with any other stone.

[Foggy]

Borglum commented that the fine texture of Alabama marble enabled him to portray the expression of kindness on Lincoln's face that he had never been able to do with any other stone.

OK, wow.