Cara off to RRNW, more media work.

Feb 2, 2009

We worked on modeling media issues this week, this time on methods to wash it to remove dust and other debris. Here Cara and Jesse agitate a batch. The street value of the exotic color-coded-by-size media in the buckets you see here beside an Em4 box is about $6,000....

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Stereo camera mount for the Emriver Em2.

Jan 22, 2009

Stephanie Rhodes, our new business manager since Jan 1, has been working feverishly on our new healthcare and payroll systems, among many other things. She’s doing a great job. Thanks to her I was able to get away from those things and my desk for a little while...

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Thermoplastic sedimentology.

Jan 20, 2009

I’m pretty sure our work with plastic media will never end. I’ll be 90 years old and still messing with the vagaries of color, cost, shape, density, and size. Though we’ve talked to a lot of sedimentologists, it just now occurred to me that...

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Museums, grant writing, record rainfall in St. Louis.

Dec 28, 2008

We’re super busy these days–Cara and I are mostly working on resubmitting an NSF grant due in early January. We have collaborators at SIUC and a few other universities. This photo is typical–it’s such hard work, and has consumed many of my...

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Stephanie Rhodes joins LRRD.

Dec 19, 2008

Another eventful week at LRRD–we’re bringing our resident Emriver Em4 into being, adding some media yesterday and running water through it for the first time. We don’t yet have the articulated base; it’s being built in St. Louis. But most...

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