Best Practices… Explain It 18 Jun 201619 Jun 2016 In speaking of his father, Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman commented, "he knew the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something." Trying to understand all of…
Best Practices… Tiny Bits 14 Jun 2016 Good morning dear friends! I'm headed out to the field this morning for more shale harvesting, but still wanted to make forward progress on my manuscript. I'm not sure who…
Geological Engineering… Shale Harvesting 10 Jun 201610 Jun 2016 There are two places to gather rock samples: above ground and below ground. Above ground is referred to as outcrop and below ground rocks are in situ. When you think outcrop,…
Uncategorized How I Got Here (Part III) 8 Jun 20169 Jun 2016 Sustainable development as governing ethic makes sense, but how does it translate into a job with a paycheck? This is the question I asked myself on my flight home from…
Uncategorized How I Got Here (Part II) 27 May 201629 May 2016 In the fall of 1998, still smarting from the loss of the Student Body President election I believed I would win, I had figure out what to do post graduation. I had…
Life at the Front Lines Bullies Among Us (Part II) 22 May 201610 Jun 2016 The next day I explained my situation to Andrea and Karen: I cannot afford to pay rent on a third apartment, I moved out here to do my life's work,…
Life at the Front Lines Bullies Among Us (Part I) 22 May 201610 Jun 2016 Bullying on school playgrounds is getting a lot of press lately. Government web sites define bullying as "unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived…
Best Practices 3 Quality Investments 15 May 201610 Jun 2016 There are a few things I need to get everything done with efficiency and excellence: my health, my equipment, my brains. We have limited resources with which to invest (our time, energy and…
Uncategorized How I Got Here (Part I) 11 May 201611 May 2016 Where is "here"? Morgantown, West Virginia. This week begins my fifth summer internship. The prior four were squarely in petroleum engineering. This one, however, is with a national research lab:…
Best Practices… 5 Questions to Ask Yourself 28 Apr 201610 Jun 2016 Good morning, friends! The semester is winding down and I am off to West Virginia next week for a summer's worth of post-graduate research. At the start of my master's…
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