May 31 and June 1, 2025 - New Zealand Prep Work

Over this weekend, I drafted my conference abstract, here is the title: 

Examining Normalized Channel Steepness within the Basin and Range, Colorado Plateau and Transition Zone Physiographic Provinces of Utah, USA.

Extending the work I've had ongoing with Parker Farnworth and Veronica Richards since their final semester at UVU. In this talk (hopefully), I'll look more closely at the geospatial relationships across Utah's geographic provinces at both range scale, catchment scale, and importantly, I will first subdivide all areas up by rock resistance/strength for more appropriate comparisons. \

I also booked two nights hotel in Auckland, a flight to Wellington with one hotel night there, my hotel in Christchurch for the week-long conference, a flight to Queenstown for exploring the Southern Alps (hope to take a biking trip and a fjord cruise), and finally a flight back to Auckland along with one night's accommodation there before flying back to the US. Should be a wonderful two week break from Utah's winter with great geology/geomorphology discussions and sightseeing! 

6 hours work over the weekend. 

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  1. DougCJune 2, 2025 at 8:07 AM

    Sounds like an amazing trip! Excited to read about your sabbatical, and love the idea of documenting it this way. You now also have at least one subscriber to please; no pressure!

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  2. Nathan TokeJune 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM

    Thanks Doug! As my first subscriber you will get some kind of free prize... haha

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