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Excellent news.
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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!"
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!"
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Imma gonna go with "Holy shit it's a girl scientist", since there are so few women in STEMshannon wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 9:14 pm 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!"
"He sewed his eyes shut because he is afraid to see, He tries to tell me what I put inside of me
He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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He's got the answers to ease my curiosity, He dreamed a god up and called it Christianity"
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Girl with a rock hammer, that's me.Frater I*I wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 9:42 pm Imma gonna go with "Holy shit it's a girl scientist", since there are so few women in STEM
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Will wonders never cease?
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I too, also understood everything she said.jemcanada2 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 5:18 pmWhat? I 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.
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I have a long way to go before I get the "Dr." part. Let me finish my M.S. first.Gene Kooper wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:55 pm [ 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.
And I would love to see that project!!
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Hey, geosciences - awesome! What area?shannon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:41 pmI have a long way to go before I get the "Dr." part. Let me finish my M.S. first.Gene Kooper wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:55 pm [ 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.
And I would love to see that project!!
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Nice. I was a paleo lab tech for a while, back around the turn of the century.
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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.shannon wrote: ↑Mon Jul 22, 2024 4:51 pm 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.
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.
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I'd love to say a bunch more, but....shannon wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 1:41 pmAnd I would love to see that project!!Gene Kooper wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 12:55 pm
I'm currently involved in a project where I'm scanning fossil beds with a terrestrial 3D laser scanner.
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!
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Any of Nick's videos since September, I'm in the audience. (It's a required class, "current topics in Geology")jcolvin2 wrote: ↑Tue Jul 23, 2024 4:04 pm 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.
Good luck with the search. Snohomish County is pretty good.
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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.
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.
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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
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
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