Old blog entries worth keeping

I rescued a few entries from my old blog that seem to be worth keeping (at least I look for them occasionally). The old site is so bad that I just printed them to PDF, so the quality is not really there, but at least there is a record.

Musings, personal items, and miscellaneous

• Memory of Charles Lockwood
• Balloon aerial photography update
• Pilgrimage to see Cleve Moler, inventor of MATLAB

Students and teaching

• Why going to seminars and talks is a good idea
• Pondering quantitative skills for geoscience students
• 2007 statement on research and teaching in active tectonics and quantitative structural geology and geomorphology

Earthquakes

• How do we determine that the Chile earthquake was 500 times larger thatn the Haiti earthquake?
• Ramon Arrowsmith and Mike Treder on Science Saturday Earthquake Edition of BloggingheadsTV

San Andreas fault

• Century long average time intervals between earthquake ruptures of the San Andreas fault in the Carrizo Plain California
• New videos on the San Andreas Fault

High resolution topography

• Geomorphic response to uplift along the Dragon's Back pressure ridge, Carrizo Plain California
• Current capabilities and cummunity needs for software tools and educational resources for use with LiDAR high resolution topography data
• Differencing sequential LiDAR scans to look for GPS error and target movement
• Final workshop report on Studying Earth Surface Processes with High Resolution Topographic Data

Other topography

• Looking at the new ASTER 30 m DEMs–not so impressive relative to SRTM 90 m
• Google elevation service released

Grand Canyon

• Exploration of the Colorado River and Grand Canyon August 17-23, 2008
• Havasu Creek near the Colorado River 2008 flood aftermath pictures
• River rapid hydraulics in the Grand Canyon