Steve Dutch GeoWeb Home Page

Natural and Applied Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Office: Rose Hall 352 phone: 465-2246
e-mail: dutchs@uwgb.edu

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Contents

Course Information	Topics of research or personal scholarly interest	Other Topics of Personal Interest
296-202 Physical Geology Syllabus    Notes	Geology of Wisconsin	Gulf War - Kurdistan, 1991; Photos
362-142 Exploration of the Universe Syllabus    Notes	Wisconsin Geologic Locality Descriptions	Bosnia, 1996
362-190 Emergence of Western Technology Syllabus    Notes	Unusual Wisconsin Weather Events	Antarctica-South America 1975
296-492 Special Topics in Earth Science: Crustal Materials (Mineralogy - Petrology) Syllabus    Notes	Virtual Field Trips	Historic Places
296-492 Crustal Movements Syllabus and Notes	Geologic Maps of the States
Structural Geology Methods Manual	Crystallography, symmetry, tilings and polyhedra
296-492 Geologic Field Methods Syllabus and Notes	Other recreational math items
296-340 Rock and Mineral Resources	American Chemical Society Talks
296-492 Planetary Geology Syllabus and Notes	Sudbury, Ontario and other Research
	Computing Tips

Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska; USGS Professional Paper 354-C.  I may have purchased the last available copy of this classic paper, but since the references I have to it elicit a fair amount of interest, I have scanned it as a service to the geological community.

Thesis: The Creighton Pluton, Ontario, and its Significance to the Geologic History of the Sudbury Region

Tri-State Field Conference 1980: Geology of Eastern and Northeastern Wisconsin

World Trade Center and the Bicentennial Tall Ships Parade 1976. How I got to see this event from the World Trade Center is a classic case of being at the right place at the right time. Actually, my wife was at the right place at the right time, proving it's not what you know, but who you know. Considering that millions of people saw this event, amazingly, there does not seem to be another photo archive like this on the Web.

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My Web Philosophy

• It's not so much surfing as Dumpster-Diving. I used to wonder how bad it could be if we just let anybody publish their ideas. Now I know. Real bad.
• I like computers. I am awed by them. I am delighted by what they can do. But I don't trust them! Electronic storage is ephemeral and fragile. Not all of that is bad. The useful half-life of most information is a few years. But I do not assume I will always have a Web to access or even floppy disks to read. If I find some useful information, I download it. If it's really important, I may even make a hard copy. If a national emergency breaks down our telecommunications, the Web is history. If a rogue nation or terrorist sets off a nuclear weapon 100 miles above the U.S., most P.C.'s are history (check out something called EMP). I still have a slide rule.
• graphics? GRAPHICS? WE DON' NEED NO STINKING GRAPHICS! Too many Web pages are cluttered with useless graphics (eye candy). See this campus's web page for a case in point. See how long it takes you to figure out what classes we offer, where, and when. In case you're not aware of it, data storage and transmission capacity are finite resources. Given the spatial nature of geology and some of my avocational interests like geometry and polyhedra, I have a lot of graphics, but I try to keep them to the necessary minimum in number and simplicity. Drawings are mostly 16-color, with no sound or unnecessary animation, to keep download time short and keep material accessible to users with low-end systems. Photos are standard JPEG format, 24-bit color.
• Chunky, not creamy. I figure if you're looking for information you want to get it, so my pages tend to be on the long side, rather than broken into short segments connected by links. It may take longer to download the page, but once you do, everything is there.
• Links. I know where my own stuff is. I have enough to do keeping track of my own pages without worrying if somebody else paid his Compuserve bill. I have had enough experiences chasing from one site to another, only to reach a dead end or have a crash, to conclude that links to remote sites are often useless. If I use them, they will go as directly as possible to the item of interest. Unless it's a stable site, like a government agency, I won't link to it. (Even some agency sites have shut down, and sites are being reorganized all the time.) In most cases, if I am aware of sites of interest, I will mention them so you can look them up with a search engine.

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Created 15 December 2002 Last Update 16 November 2011

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