Week 5, Fall 2025, more sabbatical progress

Just bullet points:

Finished a full draft of the second chapter (DEM derived products and Topographic differencing) for my advanced GIS textbook. Still need to do edits and tidy up some references. Will complete that this week. 

Next week will check in with Thousand Lake coauthors and try to finish a long overdue draft of the Dry Lake Valley Trench study along the San Andreas Fault. Goal will be end of September for that. Will feel good if I can get two manuscripts in review before December and a full draft of the GIS textbook by Christmas. January will be preparations for the IAG conference and Spring will be Topliff Hills and Genola North Fault studies. Would feel really great to have all those done before June 2026. 

Tori’s lymph nodes biopsy was negative (no sign of cancer spread)! Still watching her surgery site with fingers crossed. I do feel some weird nodules, quite pointy, small, and several of them, very unlike the original tumor. I really wish that they are just scar tissue. 

UVU classes restarted today. My colleagues were strong and returned supporting each other and the students. Faculty have basically been encouraged to leave campus early Friday because of some kind of memorial event for the speaker/victim, the undertone is that something might happen to disrupt you or your classes if you’re there. I cannot believe UVU must continue to be impacted by the aftermath of this unwanted event. Updated: now campus is officially closed to faculty and students on Friday. Complete political disruption of our campus now for nearly two weeks of the semester. 


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  1. Nathan TokeSeptember 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM

    Update, campus is closed as of 1pm Friday... Faculty must move classes online and leave campus. Not an option.

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