thanks to magma for gettin’ it set up (with a sweet header photo too)….and then I simply copied/pasted in TAC#1.

Since Sam was nice enough to reserve a domain name for this….we need to use WordPress (i think?) for a blog that is our own URL (someone tell me if I’m mistaken). Either way, I know it can be done in WordPress (cause I just recently did it, and it was ultra-easy).

I’m not really sure how other blogs work, but I think each time the host should keep it on their own site for at least a couple days before putting on the archive (?). Because i’ve gotten tons more traffic since it’s been up (although tons more is relative to very little:)). Every host should benefit from that…plus it might be a little incentive for the next host to step up.

This is meant to be very democratic, wiki, web2.0, or whatever we call it…so, please suggest a different course of action, idea, plan etc.

You’re quite welcome. Anyway, it took a whole 3 hours for the registration to go through (how I love 1and1.com!) — for the time being, theaccretionarywedge.com just redirects to Clastic Detritus.

Drop me a line when you’re ready to do a formal hand-over of the domain, and we’ll go from there.

My 2 cents: I decided on geology when I was 12, thanks to a junior high school teacher, a geology 4H leader, and the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry’s Camp Hancock and its (and NSF’s) summer field programs, eons ago. I loved to be outside. Why geology and not, say, botany or astronomy? I can’t explain it – I just don’t know!

So why, at 42, am I not tenured? Geology is a huge field, so deciding on geology does not actually narrow things down much. I studied geochemistry in grad school the first time, was a hydrogeologist for several years, and started grad school in geophysics after I learned about (1) numerical modeling and (2) geodynamics, which is not emphasized in most undergrad geophysics courses.

Now, I am still wishing I could spend time in the field.

Thanks again for compiling these stories.