Geoscience teaching from another perspective.

Geoscience teaching from another perspective.

  No post for nearly a month here.  I’ve been overwhelmed with filling orders for our new Em2 geomodels.  Our latest big challenge has been shipping logistics. Not geology, exactly, but creating cutting-edge equipment and delivering it (undamaged, please,...

Full scale Emriver Em2 shipment begins!

Full scale Emriver Em2 shipment begins!

We’re in full effect now on Em2 shipment; all the kinks are out and we hope to get a model to everybody on the waiting list by the end of November.  We hope the overseas shipments won’t be far behind. If you haven’t been following, we’ve...

Fun with cardboard (and geomorphology).

Fun with cardboard (and geomorphology).

We’re a little loopy at LRRD now, from both overwork and excitement. Today we moved the Em4 model we hauled to GSA-Denver off a truck and into our lab. The rules of hydraulic similitude dictated a 4-meter length for the Em4.  It’s about the size of a car...

Home from Denver at last.

Home from Denver at last.

After something like 17 hours of solo big truck driving, I made it home today. (Lily, next time I will take you up on your offer to go along!)  I’m beyond exhausted, but it was an incredibly satisfying trip. I picked up aluminum parts for a few more of the new...

GSA Denver summary:  We had a blast!

GSA Denver summary: We had a blast!

We had a marvelous time at GSA–everybody worked so hard; thanks to my wife Kate, to Lily and Meriam, and also to Andrew Podoll, a treasured collaborator; here you see the entire crew. I really enjoyed watching Lily work with kids who dropped by.  She has so many...