Week 6, Fall 2025 - Chapter 2 Draft Complete, Dry Lake Valley, SAF

Week 6 of the fall semester is half over and it feels like the moment to write this week's post:

This week's GE committee meeting (Wednesday afternoon) covered editing a substitution request form, addressing an individual case and working through committee bylaws as well. 

Last weekend I finished a full draft of Chapter 2 of the Advanced GIS Book, 4 more chapters to write. I need to figure out how to get some peer-review on this book and how to post it once it's complete. 

This week, I started digging into my Dry Lake Valley Paleoseismic Site paper that I began writing about 9 years ago. I've already got a great abstract, introduction, methods, three tables, six of the eleven figures done. The big hurdle is going to be making all the trench figures and slogging through writing about those results, a lot of the stratigraphy/photos/logging observations are boring/less than satisfactory but it also needs to be published, showing all that null data (no earthquakes, lots of bioturbation and ambiguous stratigraphy). The big contributions of the paper are really discussing the creep-caused structures and working through evidence for and against rupture vs creep. My aim is to get a full draft of this paper done by October 20th (before my birthday). I might need to take a break to edit the Thousand Lake Fault paper later this week when David J. gets back to me, so I can send it off to the rest of the coauthors. 

Otherwise, I signed up for two field trips for the IAG conference in New Zealand (a two day pre-meeting tectonic geomorphology field trip and a midweek rocky coasts one day field trip). 

I also trimmed a bunch of bushes around the house in preparation for getting new gutters on the house and I did a bunch of work on my bikes (replaced the headset and bottom bracket on the road bike and replaced tires/sealant on that bike; made some small adjustments on the mtb and changed out the read tire; reseated a tire on my wide gravel rims... need to now reset up the skinny gravel tires). Good thing I restrained myself from buying any more bikes, maintaining the existing ones costs plenty of time and money! They are all running well now. Need to get out there and do some bigger rides (Alpine loop? Full BST on the MTB?, century ride?, something like that). 

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