Jesse builds Emrivers; our new support group.

Jul 9, 2008

Jesse has labored in the shop for a couple of weeks now making Emriver parts. Here he works on valve plates. A few of the Emriver’s parts are made by outside contractors, but we make most of the non-metallic parts. The Emriver has around 300 parts that come from...

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Flooding and science literacy.

Jul 1, 2008

Our local Jackson County Mississippi peak looms. Highway 3 at Chester, my favorite route to St. Louis, will be closed. I like this quote from a NY Times blog interview with Kamyar Enshayan, a science educator in Iowa: Q. Why did the same practices that were blamed for...

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Leaving the nest.

Jun 1, 2008

On Friday, Jesse reminded me of George C. Scott in Patton. Barking orders to me and a helper from TREA, he managed to get four Emriver models and our first Em4 ready for delivery to Minnesota. I tried not to get in his way. Especially when he rolled three 250 pound...

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We make history. I’m not kidding.

May 19, 2008

We made geomorphic history today. I’m not kidding. After years of thinking about it and months of research, testing, and working with suppliers, we mixed and ran water through our first color-coded batch of ground melamine plastic media. There are three sizes in...

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You want how many Emriver models?

May 6, 2008

On this beautiful May day, to get away from serious work on St. Louis geomorphology, Em4 construction, Quicken 2008, and AutoCad, all of LRRD migrated to the Long Branch Coffeehouse for lunch. There we ran into my wife Kate and our great friend and collaborator Karen...

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