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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...