Matt Kuchta
@mkuchta.bsky.social
Professor of Geology at UW Stout. Views I write are my own, not my institution’s. He/him/his.
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Frangit Patriarchia
Making science education easier and more accessible one demonstration at a time.
Frangit Patriarchia
Even weirder to realize that while we are both fancy bags of water, a snail is a bag of water that moves by leaking.
November 10, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Even weirder to realize that while we are both fancy bags of water, a snail is a bag of water that moves by leaking.
Happy Birthday from a fellow Halloween kid!
November 1, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Happy Birthday from a fellow Halloween kid!
Almost looks like a shipwreck in the lower right, but given that it’s aligned with the regional glacial flow direction, more likely to be erosion/deposition related.
October 31, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Almost looks like a shipwreck in the lower right, but given that it’s aligned with the regional glacial flow direction, more likely to be erosion/deposition related.
Not much of any kind of vegetation sticking up. Some combination of dry, grazed, and maybe just after snowmelt?
October 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Not much of any kind of vegetation sticking up. Some combination of dry, grazed, and maybe just after snowmelt?
Based on the exposed roots, looks like gully development followed the clear cut.
October 22, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Based on the exposed roots, looks like gully development followed the clear cut.
Poniatowski, wi. About 30 miles WNW of Wausau.
October 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Poniatowski, wi. About 30 miles WNW of Wausau.
“In the path of destruction” by Richard Waitt (2014) is perhaps the most comprehensive and the one I would start with.
October 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“In the path of destruction” by Richard Waitt (2014) is perhaps the most comprehensive and the one I would start with.
I get the feeling that O’Keefe/Baker left too late, but we’re able to overtake that point of no return by driving out of their minds on that mountain road. Between the blast cloud and going too fast around a curve, they threaded an impossibly small needle to survive.
October 3, 2025 at 2:14 AM
I get the feeling that O’Keefe/Baker left too late, but we’re able to overtake that point of no return by driving out of their minds on that mountain road. Between the blast cloud and going too fast around a curve, they threaded an impossibly small needle to survive.
Illustrator peaked as a software product in 1999.
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Illustrator peaked as a software product in 1999.
Follow the Saturday evening tableau with the panic and chaos of Sunday morning.
The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.
The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.
October 3, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Follow the Saturday evening tableau with the panic and chaos of Sunday morning.
The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.
The raw emotional hit when comparing O’Keefe and Baker, who made it away from the blast, and the Rollins’ station wagon sitting crushed under fallen trees just half a mile from the edge of the blast zone.
I do something like this and also have them stack sheets of acrylic with each contour to help visualize topography. Can add water table elevations too.
October 1, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I do something like this and also have them stack sheets of acrylic with each contour to help visualize topography. Can add water table elevations too.
Everyone in that plane is about to experience the entire span of human emotions over the next ten minutes
September 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Everyone in that plane is about to experience the entire span of human emotions over the next ten minutes
[Quietly sets the hickory chips and brisket down…]
September 20, 2025 at 12:55 AM
[Quietly sets the hickory chips and brisket down…]
That song by Prince just hits differently now.
September 13, 2025 at 2:19 PM
That song by Prince just hits differently now.
Add to that the interest rate on an endowment given to a geo department is probably not keeping up with the costs of running a geology department especially as states cut funding to higher ed.
September 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Add to that the interest rate on an endowment given to a geo department is probably not keeping up with the costs of running a geology department especially as states cut funding to higher ed.
I suspect part of it lies in the fact that oil companies are probably not as worried about getting enough new hires to fill exploration geology positions.
September 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
I suspect part of it lies in the fact that oil companies are probably not as worried about getting enough new hires to fill exploration geology positions.
But how much oil money is spent convincing state legislators or the public that geo departments are necessary? It’s been a few years since I last saw a natural gas commercial.
September 12, 2025 at 1:31 PM
But how much oil money is spent convincing state legislators or the public that geo departments are necessary? It’s been a few years since I last saw a natural gas commercial.
Or try it with a loess core that has a strong Bt horizon.
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Or try it with a loess core that has a strong Bt horizon.
Might be fun to try with some fine alluvial sands. May get little spikes from flood events. But then the top of the scale would stretch out to 2,000 microns. Might lose the compactness if you try to get the whole thing.
September 12, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Might be fun to try with some fine alluvial sands. May get little spikes from flood events. But then the top of the scale would stretch out to 2,000 microns. Might lose the compactness if you try to get the whole thing.