Week 7, Fall 2025 - DLV Figures, Editing TLF

This week I finished digitizing four trench logs from the DLV site along the San Andreas fault and created two more trench figures. Some of these I started working on so long ago that the ArcGIS program changed and I needed to redo some of the work. I have three more trench walls to (re)digitize to unify the formatting of the trench units and one more trench figure to produce and then I can get back to finalizing the writing on that paper. I think I should be able to produce a full draft of that paper and send it to colleagues before I turn 45 or at least by the end of the month of October. 

This week I also got back edits from D. Johnson on the Thousand Lake fault paper. He provided some really useful edits and I have made the changes. Tomorrow I should be able to finalize some figure edits I wanted to accomplish before sending it to the broader coauthor group for further internal review. I think I will ask that they send back comments by October 16th, with hopes of submitting that paper to Seismica before the end of the month too! 

So this week with be:

Monday - TLF edits and send to coauthors, hopefully in time to get in a really good MTB ride. 

Tuesday - Dallas has a lumpectomy surgery and teeth cleaning and we are getting new gutters installed on the house, I'll work on some DLV trench logging if I can find time. 

and the rest of the week will be spent pushing forward with the DLV manuscript. 

Projecting forward:

October: Submit TLF to Seismica, Send DLV to coauthors for internal review. 

November: Write Chapters 3 and 4 of the Advanced GIS Book. Edit DLV MS and submit to Geosphere. 

December: Begin working on Topliff Hills manuscript and Write Chapters 5 and 6 of the Advanced GIS Book. 

January: Prepare IAG talk for New Zealand and Complete Topliff Hills manuscript and send to coauthors. 

February: Travelling and Editing prior work as needed. 

March: Submit Topliff Hills manuscript, Begin working on Genola North manuscript. 

April: Finish draft of Genola North manuscript and send to coauthors. 

May: Submit Genola North manuscript to Seismica or other Journal. 

Summer: Prep fall 2026, teach field camp, consider writing up work on ground subsidence in southern Utah and/or normalized channel steepness work (there might be a special issue on tectonic geomorphology associated with my session at IAG and if so this could become an earlier priority). 



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