💧🌏 Greg Cocks<p>I have been digging out my old copies of John McPhee's <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a>, dipping in, remembering what it was like to be a new <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geologist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geologist</span></a>, and how it has carried across into <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatial</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/data" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>data</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphology</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geomorphometry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geomorphometry</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/hydrology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hydrology</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landcover" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landcover</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/engineeringgeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>engineeringgeology</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/environmentalscience" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalscience</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landuse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landuse</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/massmovement" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>massmovement</span></a> and so much more...... <br>This one paragraph reminded me so strongly of that time,, although I cannot of course write as eloquently: <br>--<br>"I used to sit in class and listen to the terms come floating down the room like paper airplanes. Geology was called a descriptive science, and with its pitted outwash plains and drowned rivers, its hanging tributaries and starved coastlines, it was nothing if not descriptive. It was a fountain of metaphor—of isostatic adjustments and degraded channels, of angular unconformities and shifting divides, of rootless mountains and bitter lakes..."<br><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/GIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GIS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/JohnMcPhee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>JohnMcPhee</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/scientificwriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>scientificwriting</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/readingforpleasure" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>readingforpleasure</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/geology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>geology</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/water" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>water</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/landforms" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landforms</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatialanalysis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatialanalysis</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/spatiotemporal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spatiotemporal</span></a></p>