Professor Toke's Geoscience Blog

Heading into the Christmas and New Year’s Break I’ll just recap progress on sabbatical goals and outline my plan moving forward: Publication Goals - submit two papers and work on 3-4 papers. Book Goals - Advanced GIS open textbook Conference Goals - Attend International Conference and Field Trip Service Goals - Contribute to GE committee, be occasionally useful to department, participate in peer review. So Far: One Manuscript (Thousand Lake fault) submitted (Geosphere). Two other Manuscripts have received significant attention (Dry Lake Valley and Topliff fault) The advanced GIS book is almost complete (draft): 4/5 content chapters are complete and I am working on the 5th now. I am mostly prepared for the IAG conference in New Zealand and have 3 days of structured geology field trip learning scheduled. Should get two days of independent field learning by bike and boat near the Southern Alps too. Will present on Ksn across Utah landscapes in a Tectonic geomorphology of Mtns session whic...

Over the last week I completed the Geologic PCA analysis section (half) of chapter 4 of the Advanced GIS textbook, including four video tutorials, seven figures, and three tables along with 10 pages of writing. I aim to get this chapter done in the coming week or so and finish the next chapter/book before Christmas, gift for Dr. Olsen and next semester!  Additionally, I made a few of the figures for the Topliff Hill Fault Paleoseismology paper and got the go ahead from Dr. Bunds to prepare it for Seismica. So far, four figures, one table and a few pages of writing are there. Aim is to get a draft of this paper to Dr. Bunds before I go to New Zealand.