Matt Kuchta

Happy Birthday from a fellow Halloween kid!

Almost looks like a shipwreck in the lower right, but given that it’s aligned with the regional glacial flow direction, more likely to be erosion/deposition related.

Not much of any kind of vegetation sticking up. Some combination of dry, grazed, and maybe just after snowmelt?

Based on the exposed roots, looks like gully development followed the clear cut.

Poniatowski, wi. About 30 miles WNW of Wausau.

The intersection of 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude. The middle of the northwest hemisphere.

Was at ground zero for true geography nerds today

A banner advertising a company named “Kafka Granite.”

How gneiss…

In the path of destruction: eyewitness accounts of Mt St Helens. A book by Richard Waitt.

“In the path of destruction” by Richard Waitt (2014) is perhaps the most comprehensive and the one I would start with.

Most people in my grandfather’s generation switched to circuit breakers when they came out. But not my grandpa - he simply refused.

I get the feeling that O’Keefe/Baker left too late, but we’re able to overtake that point of no return by driving out of their minds on that mountain road. Between the blast cloud and going too fast around a curve, they threaded an impossibly small needle to survive.

Illustrator peaked as a software product in 1999.

A USGS photograph showing the edge of St Helen’s blast zone and an arrow pointing to a little speck of a wrecked car just 800 yards from standing, unscorched trees.

Follow the Saturday evening tableau with the panic and chaos of Sunday morning.

The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.

A 3d contour map made of stacked acrylic sheets

I do something like this and also have them stack sheets of acrylic with each contour to help visualize topography. Can add water table elevations too.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Everyone in that plane is about to experience the entire span of human emotions over the next ten minutes

[Quietly sets the hickory chips and brisket down…]

That song by Prince just hits differently now.

Add to that the interest rate on an endowment given to a geo department is probably not keeping up with the costs of running a geology department especially as states cut funding to higher ed.

I suspect part of it lies in the fact that oil companies are probably not as worried about getting enough new hires to fill exploration geology positions.

But how much oil money is spent convincing state legislators or the public that geo departments are necessary? It’s been a few years since I last saw a natural gas commercial.

Or try it with a loess core that has a strong Bt horizon.

Might be fun to try with some fine alluvial sands. May get little spikes from flood events. But then the top of the scale would stretch out to 2,000 microns. Might lose the compactness if you try to get the whole thing.

Nate Silver bashing has been a self-sustaining ecosystem for at least seven years…

"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n

If you don’t like crowds, avoid the Apple Festival, but otherwise I concur. Superior’s South Shore is criminally underrated.

How many Beaver Creeks?

Who is your pick for AL Rookie of the Year?