Week 8 - Manuscript Submissions and Teaching Demonstrations

This week I finalized and submitted a manuscript titled: "Imaging Subsidence Rates and Structures within Cedar and Parowan Valleys, Utah, USA from Lidar Differencing." with my coauthor David Munsey to the journal Remote Sensing (MDPI journal) AND I finished edits and resubmitted the Thousand Lake fault manuscript titled: "Variable Geologic Slip Rate and the Most Recent Earthquakes along the Thousand Lake Fault, Eastern Basin and Range, Utah, USA." by Nathan Toké, David Johnson, Christopher Bailey, David Marchetti, Tammy Rittenour, Robert Biek, Hanna Bartram, Sally Ward, Rachel Richards, and Clayton Forster. The revision is now under further consideration with Geosphere (GSA Journal). 

It was a good week for writing as I was dealing with a fairly painful back strain which was so bad it was hard to walk and get up and down last weekend, but now is just keeping me from running and any quick pulling motions. Physical therapy for the issue is walking, so I walked to UVU and observed the teaching demonstrations of our sedimentary geology faculty candidates this week and Debjani and I went on some nice walks with the dogs, going on progressively uneven terrain. I hope to get back on the bike again soon. Perhaps the trainer today. 

Next up is to either finish the oldest research project I am working on: documenting the Dry Lake Valley site along the central creeping section of the San Andreas fault - started writing this paper 9 years ago. OR writing a fairly straight forward manuscript about the Topliff Hills Paleoseismic site. TBD. 




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