Saturday, October 5, 2019

(Finally) Getting going with python (and a bit of history)

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I certainly recognize the power of scientific programming. Programming spreadsheets is obvious and there is nothing to be ashamed of there (...
Monday, September 23, 2019

Many thanks to Petroleum Experts Limited

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Petroleum Experts Limited has provided the School of Earth and Space Exploration with licensed software for 2D and 3D kinematic modelling, ...
Thursday, July 4, 2019

Remembering Donal M. Ragan

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Professor Emeritus of Geology Donal M. Ragan passed away in February 2019. Unfortunately, I had lost some contact with him in the last years...

M 7.1 - 17km NNE of Ridgecrest, CA (was Accumulating links for: M 6.4 - 12km SW of Searles Valley, CA)

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I have prepared a summary presentation on the earthquake sequence. The July 17 versions here here: PDF and PPT . They are comprised of mater...
Sunday, March 17, 2019

From crashing kites and Frankenmodels to efficient large-scale UAV acquisitions and beautiful shared 3D models (2018 GSA talk)

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I was invited to give a presentation in a session at the Fall 2018 Geological Society of America session T60. Revolutions in Remote Sensing:...
Monday, March 11, 2019

Anniversary of Great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami (20110311)

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Today is the anniversary of the catastrophic great Tohoku Japan earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. While I am not an expert of subduc...
Friday, March 8, 2019

Idea for an earthquake intensity exercise based on 1857 Ft. Tejon earthquake data

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I was cleaning some files yesterday and I found an old exercise I had deployed when I was first teaching Introductory Geology. It was inten...