Week 12, Fall 2025 - TLF MS ready for submission, Started Chapter 4 AdvGIS Book

This past week, I completed figure and text edits and reformatted the Thousand Lake fault manuscript for submission to a GSA journal (Geosphere) instead of Seismica (kept the old version just in case). Unfortunately, I feel that the open-access charge for GSA Bulletin is too expensive to justify submitting there, but Geosphere should reach a similar audience which is broader in scope than Seismica. I sent the reformatted version out for a last check with co-authors and hopefully will have a submission receipt with GSA by mid week. 

I also started (opened and made the cover page) for Chapter 4 of the Advanced GIS book. This follows upon meeting with Dr. Olson in detail about the class this past week. I hope to finish the book (at least the first 5 chapters) in just a few weeks, so time to push hard toward that. 

Biking was good again this past week and I've steadily been pushing up my weekly vertical climbing, reached over 7000 ft for the week (about as much as one day of the Tour de France, but good for me). Mostly been on the MTB and Gravel bike (metric century out and back from home to the end of Deer Creek) as the road bike is hooked to the Wahoo... Might have to take it off the Kickr lest I get too interested in all the algorithm advertisements for new aero do it all bikes. As long as I ride each bike type regularly I can keep those bike browsing urges at bay. Gotta keep reminding myself I have all the bikes necessary to do all the things that I want to do... another bike is not going to make me ride any more, in fact, there is not enough time to ride all the bikes I already have as much as I want to! Nor do I recover fast enough!!! 


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