Spring 2026 - Week 3 - TLF Manuscript Reviews Back, Remote Sensing Paper, Ready for NZ


Week 3 of Spring 2026 was busy. I attended the first GE committee meeting of the semester where we discussed how to mitigate AI from impacting the GE experience at UVU, even considering how to effectively ban faculty and student from using AI in GE courses (or limiting it to no more than 10% of class structure/content). Seems like a good, but possibly controversial plan given the emails that all administrators here at UVU have been sending for the past 1.5 years. 

I got reviews back on the Thousand Lake Fault Geosphere Manuscript and they were positive with some helpful suggestions for clarifying and and precision of language in a few places and adding in some things (e.g., fault scarp profile interpretations) to an e-supplement. Made some initial progress addressing those things and some of my colleagues will handle other aspects, will finish up those minor revisions in mid February upon return from New Zealand. 

The figures above are views of subsidence across the Enoch Graben in Cedar Valley, Utah and they are part of a paper that will be submitted to a special issue on imaging subsidence with the Journal of Remote Sensing. That paper (just like my revisions of the TLF paper) are due February 28th. I have got 6 figures, one table and the abstract, introduction, and methods written. My goals is to finish up with producing 2-3 more figures this weekend so I can write while in the airport and other down times in New Zealand over the next two weeks. The story is basically that lidar differencing really allows you to see the structure of ground subsidence and how it is tied to the architecture of sedimentary deposits and basin fault structures in a way that are not possible without this high resolution imaging. Also, there is a local story of increasing subsidence rates in Cedar and Parowan Valleys in Utah along with fault scarps within the valleys that stand out probably almost entirely because of the subsidence, not directly due to prehistoric ground rupture. 

The Parkfield 2.0 workshop organizing group had our first meeting over zoom and we decided that the meeting will occur in N. California at Mofitt Field, probably during the summer instead of in April as we had original thought. I am hopeful that there might be a field trip along the central SAF that I can help with. Should be fun! 

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