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Matt Kuchta
@mkuchta.bsky.social
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Professor of Geology at UW Stout. Views I write are my own, not my institution’s. He/him/his. Making science education easier and more accessible one demonstration at a time. Frangit Patriarchia
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 1d
Was at ground zero for true geography nerds today
The intersection of 45 degrees north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude. The middle of the northwest hemisphere.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 2d
How gneiss…
A banner advertising a company named “Kafka Granite.”
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 6d
“In the path of destruction” by Richard Waitt (2014) is perhaps the most comprehensive and the one I would start with.
In the path of destruction: eyewitness accounts of Mt St Helens. A book by Richard Waitt.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 7d
Most people in my grandfather’s generation switched to circuit breakers when they came out. But not my grandpa - he simply refused.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 8d
a man wearing a pair of sunglasses is looking out of a car window
Alt: John Cusack wearing a pair of sunglasses is looking out of a car window
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 10d
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.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 10d
Illustrator peaked as a software product in 1999.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 10d
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.
A USGS photograph showing the edge of St Helen’s blast zone and an arrow pointing to a little speck of a wrecked car just 800 yards from standing, unscorched trees.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 11d
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.
A 3d contour map made of stacked acrylic sheets
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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 18d
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 22d
Everyone in that plane is about to experience the entire span of human emotions over the next ten minutes
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 23d
[Quietly sets the hickory chips and brisket down…]
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29d
a fighter jet is flying through a blue sky with the words turn and burn written below it
Alt: a fighter jet is flying through a blue sky with the words turn and burn written below it
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · 29d
That song by Prince just hits differently now.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 12
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.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 12
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.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 12
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.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 12
Or try it with a loess core that has a strong Bt horizon.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 12
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.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Sep 3
Nate Silver bashing has been a self-sustaining ecosystem for at least seven years…
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Aug 9
"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people
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Darren Naish @tetzoo.bsky.social · Aug 1
You’ll all have seen the many announcements and PR pieces from #ColossalBiosciences. There are reasons to be concerned about the general message promoted by CB, one being that it is seen >by some< (US politicians in particular) as meaning that we can devalue conservation. A 🧵 1/n
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Jul 31
If you don’t like crowds, avoid the Apple Festival, but otherwise I concur. Superior’s South Shore is criminally underrated.
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Jul 31
How many Beaver Creeks?
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Matt Kuchta @mkuchta.bsky.social · Jul 30
Who is your pick for AL Rookie of the Year?
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