Livestream Discussion with Geologist and YouTube Educator Myron Cook
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 มิ.ย. 2024
- Geology professor Shawn Willsey is joined by geologist, TH-cam educator, and fellow NAU Lumberjack Myron Cook to discuss Myron's background, teaching geology on TH-cam, and geology in general. Viewers can ask Shawn and/orMyron questions at the end of the program.
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00:00 Pregame, chit chat, shoutouts
09:25 Livestream begins, a few announcements
12:02 Myron Cook discussion
1:12:00 Viewer Q&A - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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Thanks to you both, Shawn and Myron. Very interesting and thought-provoking.
I found Myron's channel long before finding yours, Shawn, but forgot his name and lost touch. You've given some of us a second chance. 🙂👍
I should have mentioned that my first two years of geological study were at a two year college named Ricks College. I then went to U. Wyo to obtain my bachelor's degree and then to Northern Az. Also, my wife Merlaine reminded me that we had 3 of our 4 children while in school not all four!
You went to BYU Idaho! :)
I'm really surprised that you were never a professor! When you get out your white board and draw diagrams in your videos, I just assumed those were the same diagrams that you've drawn for thousands of college students over the years. I'm glad you followed through on your idea and I really enjoy the depth your videos get into. Thanks!
Mr. Cook, thank you for your time, insights and artistry! As an old New England rock farmer,, I am so jealous of the fact that you had one of those newfangled gizmos known as a "baler"! (Most of Grandfather's "harvesting" was done with a team and sled Lol)
No worries, I just enjoyed your conversation with Shawn. I learned some things too. Thanks for being there.
What makes you so unique Myron is the journey you take us on in every video and your teaching style. Please keep the videos coming, it makes my day every time I get one of your notifications!
Terrific to see this with Myron! Thank you, Shawn.
Thanks Nick. Look what you started.
Godfather Nick!
Shawn,Myron and Nick have been my most favorite geology TH-camrs for a long time it's great to see everyone getting together-thanks to you all for the great work
Ditto
Agreed.
I have seen many good videos by Shawn and Myron and Nick.
There's another guy I don't know by name but he has a lot of good if very short videos, his channel is called Geology Hub. He mostly covers volcanics and impact craters. I used to live near the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland but I never knew there was a massive impact there until I saw his video on it
Totally agree. Three different perspectives and content delivery and all three have made me a total geology enthusiast.
@@MyMemphisable Our closest dramatic geology is in Arkansas, Missouri, Alabama or Middle and East Tennessee. I am not counting the New Madrid. The Mississippi Embayment has an interesting story but it is not visible. Thank goodness for the visuals we get from the guys.
As a biologist I was "fortunate" enough to get laid off every 2-3 years (merges etc) and because I did good work was able to find new positions quickly. It opened up whole new areas of study, never had a chance to get bored, had to constantly learn new techniques, and later in my career made me more valuable. I could go into a meeting with a diverse background and thus could provide input on nearly all the studies. Don't be afraid of changing direction..it can be just as fulfilling as being an expert in just one aspect of science, maybe more so.
The biggest “firing” experience of my life led rather quickly to graduate school which transformed the entire rest of my life. When one door closes, search mindfully for the gates of the city that have opened.
I love Myron's work and the way he compassionately explains these beautiful western landscapes. I was following Myron before I found Shawn's channel. I love that you made this with him! You guys rock!
Thank you. What I love about both of you is you are natural born educators AND I feel like I am hiking with you and jumping out of cars with you at cool road cuts! I’m pushing hard on the eighty year old milestone so I now need young “friends” to “bring me along” while I sit on my backside and give thanks for this great technology and for your enthusiasm!!
Studying geology in college during covid (and after I graduated), you, Myron, and Nick have been instrumental in my continuing love and passion for the field. Thanks for all you do!
I am not exaggerating even a little when I say that Myron's videos are so well scripted, and so well produced, they remind of the programs National Geographic used to make.
Great to see this interview - I found Myron before Shawn, and had been following Nick on the Rocks episodes before he took off in the pandemic. You all three have different styles and focuses which makes a nice complimentary set of channels to follow. There were many of Myron;s stories that got started but not completed in the interview, and I would love to see more of him just talking and storytelling. He has the voice for it, and the natural storytelling style. Thanks Shawn and Myron for this interview!
I really enjoyed this. I enjoy both of your styles and Nick Zentner as well. If I would’ve had any one of you as my Earth Sciences teacher in 7th grade, my life would have been much different! Thank you Shawn and Myron.
That was really good, you both seem to compliment each other, both being respectful of each other, so nice to see, thanks for giving your time to entertain us all. Keep safe and well. Jim from Dartford UK.
Thank you gentlemen for this. I follow you 'big three' - Nick, Shawn, and Miron. The gathering you accomplished with them Professor has allowed us to know you on a deeper level. A more personal connection with our favorite geologists. Thank you Shawn!
Geo Girl is also on my watch and subscribed list.
Myron Cook is the Bob Ross of geology. Happy lil rocks. 🪨 😃
Shawn, I found your channel while watching Myron Cook's videos. The all-knowing TH-cam algorithm put you in my feed and you ended up with another subscriber
Awesome. So great that we compliment each other.
Thank you Shawn and Myron. Absolutely agree that field work is a necessity, really appreciate your videos taking us to places we might never be able to visit.
Almost flunked out of high school, but I got A in auto mechanics and geology. You two and Nick are my post-grad professors.
I'm also of the school of Myron's changed the way I look at the world. Thank you, sir. I love astronomy yet I follow more geologists on TH-cam. The two of you, Steven Baumann, Geo Girl, Geology Hub. I think it's because, except for Dr. Becky Smethurst, geologist are more excited in their presentations on TH-cam. So it gets me all excited to learn. Thanks to all the scientists who give their time here on YiouTube to help us understand the world/universe around us better.
Shawn and Myron, thank you this was amazing! As both of you, I'm a big fan of Nick also. You all are not only teaching geology, what you are sharing can be applied to all avenues of life. Appreciate it, thank you both.
Awesome, thank you!
Hello from a Zentnerd and now your follower as well!
Awesome. Welcome aboard!
Great interview! I found Myron first because I was looking for Wyoming geology. Then TH-cam sent me to you. I love both your styles. It just depends on how much time I have mostly. My favorite geologic ( and spiritual) spot in Wyoming is the Snowy Range in the Medicine Bows west of Laramie. S.H Knight's illustrated book on the geology of this range really helped me find some fascinating things. The geology building at the University of Wyoming is named after him. There is a great museum there too.
Its like a language, writing is everywhere, but without the language of geology, you never look twice, now that i know a little bit i can read all these words, plain as day, and from there its an endless unfolding of understanding. Truly is life changing, I will gladly agree, to that, i also have no background at all in geo. These 2 guys make learning fun.
Got to say Shawn, Myron, and Nick Z. Have really turned me on to Geology.. thanks to all of you for the work to create great videos on geology.. geology is the best.
Got you both - from Duluth Minnesota where the young rocks are over a billion years old !
My father is a civil engineer whose career was in highway engineering with land surveying as his side hustle. In his late 80's he still takes pleasure in showing as the things he notices in the road cuts here in Appalachia. My favorites were always the fossils. If it wasn't for love of hi-tech I may have followed in his foot steps. I'm sincerely hoping your efforts in educating the public will draw young people.
Great talk with Myron Cook. Thanks as always for sharing, Shawn.
Thank you, Shawn and Myron, for a fascinating discussion! I hadn’t realised that your channels came about because of the covid shut downs. You two and Nick are my go-to channels, along with a couple of the smaller guys. Please keep up the great work 👍
I totally agree with Myron about the dearth of geology presenters on you tube. I keep looking for Southern Rockies/ Colorado stuff but nada. But I love watching both of you!
Amazing interview! ❤ And another NAU alumni that was in the geology building while I was studying computer science and living in the residence hall right across the path from the geology department on the first floor next door to Hanley Hall that they took down a few years ago. Cheers to you both. NAU '90
I’m in awe of you both, having some vigorous hiking and clambering around rocks and videoing and commenting at the same time. My goal is to stay upright!😊
Awesome 👏 I am glad to watch this! Y’all both rock 😊
I think I missed my calling, as I find all of the TH-cam geology channels to be very interesting. It all started with Jeff Williams covering mostly the geology of gold mining in Arizona and Nevada, but Nick on the Rocks came along shortly after Jeff and created an interest in lava flows and volcanoes. I discovered Myron next, and Shawn shortly after Myron had a lot to do with Iceland's recent eruptions.
I suppose it all began as a kid out rockhounding with mom, dad and brother here in the southern California deserts and mountains. Ever since I find myself always scanning the ground while out hiking, and thanks to you geologists, I now scan all the hill and desert formations too. My brother didn't miss the calling, as he became a geologist's kissing cousin with a degree in geophysics, and spent many years working for the BHP company looking for gold and other valuables in Minnesota and Wisconsin of all places!
Keep those videos coming, and do take a more detailed look at southern California in the future!
I've got a nice little collection of SoCal videos already with hopefully more to come.
@@shawnwillsey Fantastic! I have seen your videos on the Salton Sea, Palo Verde Valley and Joshua Tree NP area.
Thanks for this interview with Myron! Back in the dark ages of ‘54-58’ I majored in Geology, before Plate Tectonics were a ‘going concern’! I never did anything with it except to enjoy the world I found myself in! And still do!!! Found you in Iceland with videos with basaltic columns, etc! And many more since then! Keep up your great work! ❤️ Judy Dickson
Wow my two favorite geologists in one video! Gotta watch this!!
What an inspiring conversation. And interesting to learn how Myron got into on-line geo education and of his background in the oil and gas industry.. BIG thanks to you Shawn, Nick and Myron for the on-line teaching you do. Different style, but all good.
I love the question -- What is your favorite geologic time period or formation. That's got me thinking. I'm partial to the Silurian, Ordovician, and Devonian periods--I've been picking those fossils for years, and the thought of the Midwest parked near the equator and the marine life in that warm tropical sea is fascinating, Well then, I get to areas with Pre-Cambrian rocks and I get lost trying to figure out how those rocks all formed. Good stuff!
Hi Shawn. All good here in Dartford UK. Jimbo.
Thank you very much for this opportunity to watch you both, great.
Awesome! Myron is so wholesome, love both you guys' videos!
Part of Myron success is his voice, and peaceful behavior. Congratulations, up to now I saw maybe 15 chapters, can't find more!
This was awesome.
Nick was the first geology TH-camr I knew of then Geology Hub -- with a totally different style and focus -- and then you and Myron popped into my suggestions at about the same time.
I really appreciate the variety of style and focus. I just wish there was someone doing the same sort of thing for the east coast. There's so much I don't know about my adopted home in NC -- stuff that my geology courses in central PA in the early 80's didn't cover at all (possibly because it hadn't been discovered yet).
Love my two favorite geologists together.
Great livestream! Thank you both for putting this together!
Another fantastic stream. 💪🥇
First. 😋
This was great! Can’t imagine how I missed the live, but sure grateful for replay. Thanks, Myron, and Shawn for sharing yourselves with us.
Outstanding discussion!!! Thank you both. I will be checking out some of Myron’s videos.
Thoroughly enjoyed the discussion with you and Myron, Shawn. I've watched Nick, you and Myron on various individual vlogs and it's really been great to watch two of you exchanging ideas and experiences. I look forward to more of these kinds of discussions. Even better, perhaps even more fun, would be to watch a shared experience with two or more of you on an adventure somewhere. THAT would be incredibly interesting! As viewers, we should all promise to be non-judgmental toward anyone's possible shortness of breath. 😅
So interesting! I learn so much from both you guys, thank you!
Two of my favorite geologists! Now if we can just get Godfather Nick in there at the same time! Enjoyed the video immensely.
Looking good !!!
Oh my goodness! I missed the live with two of my favorites! Darn. Darn. Darn. Thank you, guys. (Why am I not surprised that Myron studied with Blakey. Uh duh on me. )
What a great insight to Myron's life and experience. Both of you are so valuable to your students and for us enthusiasts that love the way you both present lessons! Thank you for a great stream! ⭐
Only one other guy is on my list Nick!
Regarding the question about breakthroughs that may help geologists, I recommend looking at the recent research in using fiber optic cables (which had previously been used for communications) as in-place sensors for ground movement. Very high precision data can be collected, with a sensitivity that can track large vehicles on roads.
A favorite video by Myron was the inverted geology of an ancient river where the bed was calcified and the surrounding topography was eroded leaving the riverbed exposed standing 8-10 feet higher than the ground level. That blew me away!
Thank you for an excellent session. I have never had a course in geology, yet I appreciate all the work that both of you do, and it was nice to get a better understanding of the people behind the videos.
Well I just posted something for a different channel and it ended up on your channel while I was just listening to it.
I guess I messed up. Sorry!
I really enjoy your guests and the excellent information you put forward on your channel.
Has happened to me, too. YT’s in charge, not us. Check if you’re set to that “auto continue” thing that pushes you to the next video before you’ve finished the comment for the last video. Maybe it’s that. Or maybe Algy is just cranky sometimes.
Thanks so much to you both @shawnwillsey and @myroncook, this was an excellent conversation, I really enjoyed it! Different styles, but the same passion for geology and the communication skills to share it with us, lucky YT viewers. Also, I liked hearing about Myron’s background and experience and how the work of geologists has evolved over the years, it was very interesting, indeed.
I agree, we need subsurface imaging! I feel like we know more about deep space and black holes than our own planet's subsurface...
And thanks again to @MandieJo and Susan Helmer and Lisa R for moderating the live chat, great job ladies :)
ps: @shawnwillsey we love your hellos & shoutouts ;)
Jim G from Palm Springs. Toured with Myron last June
It was great to have you there, Jim.
All good Shawn.
Watching after the fact - I'm in Ashland, KY :)
I missed the live stream but watched the playback. Myron is a natural educator. I have one critique: you interrupted him too much. Myron is very methodical when he speaks and you didn’t always give him time to frame his thought. You were trying to finish his thoughts for him. Other than that, I really enjoyed the conversation. Have enjoyed his videos as well.
My two favorite TH-cam geologists in one video - SCORE!
Loud and clear in Australia
Just found you up and going two of my favorite Geo guys! Loud and clear!
From Western WA.
Sounds great
I love Nick Myron and Shawn. Different in their styles. But all 3 are awesome educators. Love it. I find very little UK based educators. I also love The Geologists of Jackson hole. Very small but very good.
Thank you Prof. Shawn. Another great video with your special guest Mr Cook, I’ve been following you since 2020 and I’ve been following Mr. Cook for about a year now and I enjoy watching you both with every episode. The thing that makes it fantastic for me is your use of vocabulary for the less then amateur Geologist. I have learned a lot about geology from both of you and I think I have a greater understanding of the earth process within the region I live in.
Yes a field trip with both of you at the same time would be awesome, and I would love to be there for it.
I love Myron’s scale model of the earth’s crust using an exercise ball.
I do, too. Really gives a feeling of scale you don't get from most diagrams in books! I'd always visualised the crust as much thicker.
Good one
Back around 2002, when I was a student at Weber State University, I wrote a paper for a class about how my dad's family owns a large tract of land in Southern Alberta, including the mineral rights. My paper talked about Southern Alberta's oil sands and tar sands, the technology and economic costs of processing oil and tar sands, and the current trends of the costs of worldwide oil production. I then made a prediction of when the cost of oil production would rise to the point where it would become economically feasible enough to start tapping Southern Alberta's oil and tar sand resources and when we might start seeing some money from it. I predicted it would be two years.
My prediction hit the nail right on the head. Two years later, an oil company leased my family's mineral rights and began exploratory drilling. We got a decent amount of money from that lease. Unfortunately, they only found tar sands under our property. It is a lot harder to extract oil from tar sands than oil sands. Getting the oil to the surface is the hardest part. The layers are too deep for strip-mining. However, technologies are in development which may be used to separate the oil from the tar sands while still underground. Even with today's technology, it is still a slow process.
the oil crash of the mid 1980s were difficult on many people- and it trickled down into other support industries....
I remember it well. Bumper stickers on the back of cars in the oil country base for offshore drilling of Lafayette, LA, read: Last one out turn out the lights. It rebounded. Eventually.
The thesis defense story is hilarious , Myron .
Great show!
As far as collaborations go, I think it might be good to think of the Comic-Con format. I don’t know what that would look like, but I know that there are conferences of Maker TH-camrs, or inventors, or science related stuff. I think it would be great to have All the geology TH-cam creators having a gathering. I love that there are FaceTime like conversations, but I think it could be more. And it could be in the interest of trying to get more students into geology. There has already been mentioned Shawn, Myron and Nick, but there are others. GeologyHub is great. And so is Geo Girl.
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Myron Cook is a caricature and with that country drawl he could have been in movies.
I have a hundred hobbies as well but at our age there's only so much that we can do so stick to what you are inspired to do.
Hello Myron
Shawn, after watching your Q&A with Myron Cook its shows me that we have stuff all research with Geology here in Australia, its very sad in a way
Do a Random Roadcut in Iceland?
On my list.
@@shawnwillsey Awesome! :)
This was great, you two and Nick have indeed transformed how I look at my surroundings. Also questions pop up in my mind. Since you, Shawn are going to the Boise area I wonder if you could spend some time looking at the Boise foothills. Particularly going up Bogus Basin Road. From living there (40 years) I can see they are very sandy but I don't know how far up that lasts nor do I understand where that sand came from, how deep it is, when it was deposited.
Myron is one of the most likeable TH-camrs I follow, always learn so much from him. You too Shawn! Thanks, geeat idea, would like you and Nick and Myron to get together also, Dr antons rockarama
This is awesome! Myron is like the Bob Ross of geology! I'm an artist so that's a very high compliment lol in fact I love both of your videos I would love to see more on the grand staircase from geologists and not from people who want to wrap it up into biblical theory. I think it's fascinating! Heck both of you just keep going Make more videos ever since driving cross country to California and bringing my son and husband on an epic grand staircase Grand canyon Zion Brice scenic route 12 Moab Colorado Rocky mountains plains and Appalachian mountains back to Florida adventure I have fallen in love with geology once again. I would love more on Florida geology especially since from what I've read and watched Florida is distinctly unique from the rest of the continent if I'm not mistaking it Florida has a different bedrock and not just the shallow sea bedrock. Anyway I am very glad that both of you are doing so well I just wish I would have known when this was live! I'm going to watch it now though
Shirley in Spokane, WA
Spokane !
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I'd love to include Richard Gibson, Ben Burger, and Nick Zentner in this discussion.
I’ve chatted with Nick twice. One video on his channel and one on mine.
@@shawnwillsey I enjoyed them. I've enjoyed Nick for years. Dick and Ben are both great resources. This developing geo-net Nick and U are assembling is allowing depth and healthy discussion on where we are now, in big time. Kudos from the West Kootenays, BC, up the Columbia, in the subglacial holding pond, aka Purcell Trench. We have high terraces and deep narrow valleys, and hot springs in all the BC trenches.
Hello from indiana. I e been finding what looks like green gold and I've been collecting it but it has a red tinted oxidation on the outside of them I'm not sure if it is mixed it looks to be
I am curious has anyone done anything on the Lewiston Idaho Hill dropping down? It's got Saddle mountain Lava flow and Ashes and maybe even a cut of the great uncomformaty (s.p.) I dive down that hill and just want to stop and really get a feel for it.
Check my book, Roadside Geology Of Idaho. Co-author Keegan describes that area nicely.
Good I already bought that book I will have to look. I've been busy gold prospecting in Montana Near trout Creek and Thompson Falls!
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Hypothesis: The recent discoveries of submarine megalithic(?) structures and the dating of them based on current sea level change models relies on a uniformitarian perspective. Geologic uniformitarianism is similar to Newtonian mechanics, then along comes quantum mechanics turning reality on it's head. Is isostatic change always creeping along at current rates or have there been extreme uplift/settleage episodes as briefly described by Plato 3500 years ago?
Can iratics mark hydrocarbon drops under two mile high glaciers
1:32:09 we need underground lidar kind of like they've been finding all of the ruins in the Mayan basin and the ancient civilizations in the Amazon rainforest that same type of really detailed technology but somehow if we could reach deep underground with it and peel off the layers like they can peel the forest back would be awesome! We would need lasers that could almost be on a molecular level though but it would be epic
If you drive through Glenwood Canyon on I-70 you will see the great unconformity.
Thanks!
Much appreciated. Thank you!