Professor Toke's Geoscience Blog

Well spring 2026 is over. So technical is sabbatical. But now it’s summer!  I’ve received news of success with the Geosphere manuscript and I am working on copy edits for that paper now. The journal Remote Sensing rejected my LiDAR differencing paper about ground subsidence in Cedar Valley despite two positive reviews and one negative one. So I reformatted and made a few small edits and submitted the Manuscript to Earth’s Future which is more about results and application than mythological focus which was the criticism by the one reviewer.  I also go through the very helpful edits by Dr Bunds and sent the Topliff Hills manuscript to the rest of our coauthors.  Got 10+ survey responses from Students that used my OER draft book. Will work to make edits before the start of fall.  Planning to submit a tectonic geomorphology paper with Parker and Veronica to a special issue stemming from the ICG meeting. Also contemplating how to move forward with the Genola north fault p...

Dr Bunds gave me some really good feedback on the draft of our Topliff fault manuscript this past week and I am about half way through those edits. Hope to finish those this weekend or the beginning of next week so I can send a better version to the rest of our coauthors. I heard back (last week) from Geosphere’s editorial and contracts office that our TLF manuscript is headed toward publication! I applied for and received a SAC award to cover the publication charges. Now just waiting on official word and proofs from the editorial office. The 2nd round reviews appear to be back from the lidar differencing paper about subsidence in Cedar and Parowan Valleys is S. Utah. I could see feedback in the submission system which was positive from two reviewers and less so from a third. Hopefully the editorial group sides with the majority!  I completed a peer review for JGR Earth Surface last week. I chatted with K. Smith about working on the Genola North fault manuscript soon!  The Par...