Professor I love the new format, you are giving us more to chew on, and we still have time to let it sink in. Fantastic work sir, keep em coming!! Thank you
Dr. Smith I love you style of teaching! You made it very easy for a marine biologist to understand what you were saying. Thanks Professor Zentner for finding Dr. Smith for us. You make me want to go back to school again to study geology.
Every time I take a break from baking Christmas goodies there is another video to catch up on! You gotta love it!. Thanks Gary for sharing your time and knowledge with us, and thank you Nick for your determination to dig deeper and deeper and bring more geologists into the mix - nice Christmas gift.
Thanks, Nick, for the trip down memory lane. It was fun to be prodded to remember things and people surrounding my work in the Ellensburg Formation in 1986-1987. I reminded me, too, of how grateful I am to Steve Reidel, now retired from PNL in Richland but was with the Basalt Waste Isolation Project in the 1980s and encouraged and mentored many graduate students and post docs, including me.
I have to say this was one of the more interesting interviews you've done lately. Tremendous respect for Dr Smith for going back 40 years and remembering incredible details. Also, I love some of the insight into the politics of science. The Hanford site is such a controversial topic and yet he seemed to be very adept at handling all the different constituencies.
Really enjoyed this episode! Dr. Smith is a clear and organized thinker who has the ability to articulate his thought so that an amateur geology fan like me with the background from your series can actually get a sense of what happened and what kind of questions are interesting. Thanks again Nick!!!
Lucky us! This talk was very special: listening to geologists think- tanking, and getting the flavor of "olden days 'politics'." Thanks for keeping your door open Nick.
Gary and I overlapped at OSU when we were both graduate students. I learned a lot from Gary about volcaniclastics, that later was important in my thesis work in central Oregon on a gold deposit in the Clarno Formation. I hope Nick covers the Clarno Formation in this series and it's association (or not) to the geology under discussion in this TH-cam series.
Brilliant. Dr. Smith, out of the geologty game for years, was very clear and precise about the material. Also profound was his motivational words creating a future for a new generation to look deeper at previous work.
Holy moly! I'm just getting caught up and they keep rolling in! Thanks Nick and really great to hear how well Liz is doing. Happy holidays to you and your family!
Jumping several tens of millions of years ahead in our timeline, but still implicating major themes that have already developed: the basement inliers, the uplift of the range, and the many generations of different styles of vulcanism. Along with the critical importance of secure and precise dates! And the Hanford sidestory provided just the right amount of spice.
Great insights Gary Smith (go Beavers!). It interests me that the end of the Ellensburg formation at 7 Ma coincides with the end of the fossil record at John Day. Is that when the Cascade uplift reached a certain threshold that included a dramatic climatic shift on the eastside?
Professor I love the new format, you are giving us more to chew on, and we still have time to let it sink in. Fantastic work sir, keep em coming!! Thank you
Gary Smith communicates beautifully both his experience and his knowledge. Interesting and pleasant. Thank you Nick.
Dr. Smith I love you style of teaching! You made it very easy for a marine biologist to understand what you were saying. Thanks Professor Zentner for finding Dr. Smith for us. You make me want to go back to school again to study geology.
Every time I take a break from baking Christmas goodies there is another video to catch up on! You gotta love it!. Thanks Gary for sharing your time and knowledge with us, and thank you Nick for your determination to dig deeper and deeper and bring more geologists into the mix - nice Christmas gift.
Thanks for all the hard work on these videos!
Thanks, Nick, for the trip down memory lane. It was fun to be prodded to remember things and people surrounding my work in the Ellensburg Formation in 1986-1987. I reminded me, too, of how grateful I am to Steve Reidel, now retired from PNL in Richland but was with the Basalt Waste Isolation Project in the 1980s and encouraged and mentored many graduate students and post docs, including me.
I have to say this was one of the more interesting interviews you've done lately. Tremendous respect for Dr Smith for going back 40 years and remembering incredible details. Also, I love some of the insight into the politics of science. The Hanford site is such a controversial topic and yet he seemed to be very adept at handling all the different constituencies.
Really enjoyed this episode! Dr. Smith is a clear and organized thinker who has the ability to articulate his thought so that an amateur geology fan like me with the background from your series can actually get a sense of what happened and what kind of questions are interesting. Thanks again Nick!!!
Very good! Thank you both! 🪨 ⛰️
Lucky us! This talk was very special: listening to geologists think- tanking, and getting the flavor of "olden days 'politics'." Thanks for keeping your door open Nick.
Gary and I overlapped at OSU when we were both graduate students. I learned a lot from Gary about volcaniclastics, that later was important in my thesis work in central Oregon on a gold deposit in the Clarno Formation. I hope Nick covers the Clarno Formation in this series and it's association (or not) to the geology under discussion in this TH-cam series.
Brilliant. Dr. Smith, out of the geologty game for years, was very clear and precise about the material. Also profound was his motivational words creating a future for a new generation to look deeper at previous work.
Dadgummit, now I have to take another 40 minute office break, thanks a lot Nick and Gary!
What a delightful conversation that was.
Holy moly! I'm just getting caught up and they keep rolling in! Thanks Nick and really great to hear how well Liz is doing. Happy holidays to you and your family!
Thanks Gary.
Look forward to reading his papers rewatching interview.
I like this Gary Smith! He knows what a good background should look like!
Thank You Gary!
Jumping several tens of millions of years ahead in our timeline, but still implicating major themes that have already developed: the basement inliers, the uplift of the range, and the many generations of different styles of vulcanism. Along with the critical importance of secure and precise dates! And the Hanford sidestory provided just the right amount of spice.
Great insights Gary Smith (go Beavers!). It interests me that the end of the Ellensburg formation at 7 Ma coincides with the end of the fossil record at John Day. Is that when the Cascade uplift reached a certain threshold that included a dramatic climatic shift on the eastside?
WOW! Two today - Thanks Guys.
Excellent interview! Mt. St. Helen's data. Ellensburg Formations stitched together with Mt. Hood. Past leads to future & back.
I recognize those mountains behind him. NM. Yes !
A Two-Fer Monday!