Nick On The Rocks - Season 3 Premiere 

This guy is a heckuva speaker and instructor. One of the best I've seen.

My friends and family from out of state must think I'm strange when I get excited to tell them all about our interesting geology in Washington. Thanks!

This retired geologist (M.S. 1975) loves what you are doing to fire the interest in young folks into our wonderful science. Thank YOU and major cudos!!

A new geology presentation by Nick Zentner brightened my whole day!

Who needs Bohemian Rhapsody when Nick will, Nick will, Rock you! ?

Amazing work everybody. Thankyou for showing us the beauty of Washington and explaining how it got there.

I waited for what seemed like an eternity for this. Nick, you are a teacher down to your DNA. As a Science teacher of 20 years, I salute you. You make me proud of the teaching profession. Always leave them wanting more buddy.

I moved to Washington, from Georgia, about six years ago. I keep coming back to learn more about the state from you, Nick. Thanks!

Zentner is the Eddie Woo of Geology. _Orderly, Concise, Complete, and Excellent!_

How does this guy not have a TV show on Discovery Channel or something? He could singlehandedly revive them from the doldrums of vacuous trash that dominate the network now. Greatly appreciate these lectures and I'm kicking myself for not attending CWU after being accepted 15 years ago!

Japanese records are how we know the exact time of the super quake, I finally understand how it's so precise!

lucky me. I came upon this site a month ago. Nick is a gem. Until now, a rock was a rock more or less. He is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about geology. Like i said, lucky me. Thank you Nick for giving this old geezer a new and exciting gift to ponder. My life is richer because of this.

Greetings from Victoria, Australia. I am watching this with my mother who was originally from Washington State.

Non geologist rockhound here. Though I live down in Texas hill country, I find myself applying what I learn from these videos to what I see when I go to Big Bend or some such place. Thanks much for doing these. They are invaluable to me!

So glad Nick is back - The best geology videos by a great presenter. Enjoying all the way from Western Australia

Dr. Zentner Rules!!! I absolutely love his videos and lectures. Geology rocks!

I studied the Ice Age floods in college (I went to Central Washington University, got a BA in physical geography) but Nick has taught me so many new things in his videos. It's fantastic! Thanks Nick.

This is so fascinating. I love it❤💯 I'm watching from Knoxville Tn, the foothills to The Smoky Mountains ❤

Oh my gosh my favorite RU-vid professor is back !!!♥️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Each of these episodes was extremely well done. You Rock Nick

This is so interesting and so well done, so way to go, Nick Zentner! Even though I will be 73 years old this year, watching these videos makes me want to go back to school and study geology!

I have lived all over the Pacific Northwest including Ellensburg. I absolutely love every minute of these programs. I have learned so much from Nick and have enjoyed the educational content. I presently live in Southern Idaho. Please keep it coming!!!!

I love watching these lectures. They really help pass the time while I am deployed overseas!

Truly admire your work Nick, I love Washington State's landscape. Recently got to cross one off of my bucket list and visit Mount St Helens. You've given me a few more to put on that list. Take care from Kansas.

This guy is an international treasure. I'd love to be able to attend one of his seminars or classes, but it's a little too far for me to travel... I'm in Scotland.

Found this, and without intending to, in an empty house, I barked out loud: "COOL!" SO happy for more Nick!!

It's September 2022, I'm watching this from West Lothian, Scotland. Did you ever imagine your lectures would become so popular, so far across the world? My interest was peaked because by our Great Glen Fault, here in Scotland, we have the 'parallel roads' of Glen Roy, and the remnants of the super volacanoes of Glencoe and the Isle of Skye, from when Western Scotland broke away from the eastern edge of the North American continent. We have ancient volcanic plugs dotting our landscape, pretty much like you have your 'Yellowstone hotspots', and classic post glacial topography, but no obvious natural scablands.

Thanks Nick and company for enriching our minds with these amazing geologic facts! Born in Kennewick many moons ago, if only I had known back then what you have taught me. I suspect that the Carolina basins and the Nebraska rain water basins are connected to some of these catastrophic flood events!

Absolutely love CWU and now I love it even more. Such great faculty, staff and students. Only did a short summer session there but it was a blast I’ll always treasure!

NYer here that is planning a trip out there to see first hand these things you are showing. Thank you for making these videos.

Can't get enough of Professor Nick Zentner! He explains things in such a way that even the average viewer with little to no geology can truly begin to comprehend the enormity and wonder of the Pacific Northwest in a way they never could have imagined.

One of the finest lecturers I've ever seen/heard. So pleased to come upon this. Nick you've inspired me to buy a rock hammer and pack up the kids and take them on little impromptu field trips on the weekends. Thanks man, great work.

Finally! About Time!!! OMG I was jonesing for new content! It's going to be a good night! Whoo hooo.... gawd I'm a dork but I love Uncle Nick!

Nick I have just started to watch the video and am extremely glad to see you are back. The torment is over :)

1/20/2023 I live on the other side of the country. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. There I would find rocks that didn't fit the local geology, that being thick beds of clay, shale, sand stone and some limestone. Now I know how the pink colored rock I found (I called gneiss (probably wrong) got there. I now live in northern Georgia where there is a lot of quartz and shist. Since my childhood geology has been an interest to me, this and all of Nicks shows and lectures I really enjoy, Thanks. ;-)

Good to see you back Nick.

Superb videos and beautifully presented information! Many thanks from Winchester, UK

Try qs i might, I just can't get over to attend one of these lectures and presentations because i no longer drive a car. : ( But, these videos are so wonderful. Nick, you help keep me a little saner and more content with your humor and ability to distill down the basic yet "nourishing" factoids and demonstrations of the textures and sounds of our beloved WA geologic history. My dad and I used to light out with sandwiches and a big thermos of coffee, rock hammers at our sides, maps and sheer cussedness to explore some of the true wonders of our beloved WA State (I'm remembering our day trips from B'ham. As a family, we went much farther afield.). I was the only kid I knew who shared time with her dad that way. We petted those big palm fossils on Chuckanut Dr., drove to Artist's Point at the end of the road towards Mt. Baker and visualized the mud flows that ended up in Baker Lake, gathered rocks in Whatcom County streams to see who could be first to find olivine from Mt. Shasta and scrambled up the Nooksack headwaters to marvel at how a river was born. Now, he's gone and my old bod has betrayed me but I can still tag along with you thanks to You Tube and PBS! I want you to know how precious your contributions are to me. Thank you so much!

A picture is worth a 1000 words. I really enjoy my lessons Dr Nick. Scott in CO

Seriously one of the most incredible lecturers of any era! Right up there with Faraday, Feynman, and Walter Lewin! This is wildly inspiring stuff. Almost tempted to switch majors, if I wasn't already so in love with Linguistics!

I've been watching these on our PBS here and LOVE THEM, thank you so much for making these! Very well done and never fails to interest and inform, and entertain and educate. This is the sort of content I dreamed of when working on web in the way, way back days.

What I love about Nick is his ability to articulate complex/contentious concepts into a cohesive narrative. To me that indicates someone who really grasps a subject. Keep up the great work!

Watching and loving it from Australia. Ive been watching for a year. I appreciate your passion for for geology Nick. Your part of the world contrasts as sharply as it gets from mine. That fact and your outstanding delivery to the layperson, demonstrates that when you dig deep enough into any story it can enlighten, inform, and grow seeds of passion in others. Keep up the good work.

Nick Zentner - International Rock Star! The behind-the-scenes stories add to the excellence of the presentations. Now Washington in one more place on my bucket list! Thanks and keep up the good work. :)

Thanks Nick, as a fellow Wisconson transplant to WA state myself in the 70's, I appreciate all you do and your great geology teaching skills.

Fun fact, in Germany "Zentner Nick" as search term using DuckDuckGo renders this video already as the second on the hit list. And Zentner is a real word in German (50 kg mass) You are a star. And rightfully so.

I love being able to take your college class right here at home without having to fork out thousands of dollars. Thank You 🙏

Been to the area but never understood the magnificence of it all. Thank you Nick!

I can only fail to tell you how excited I was to see this new video! Although I am an accounting student (soon professor), I am so passionate about geology! Your lectures help feed my intellectual and childhood curiosity. I cannot wait to see more!!!

Seen it before but enjoyed watching again. Questions and answers are great to add to knowledge thank you all

Hope this guy is payed well. Probably the beast teacher I have ever seen. Captivating, respectful, clear and entertaining. Could make a bowl of porridge interested in geology. Would like to see him analyse Icelandic geology.

Been waiting a long time for this. Thank you, Nick!

It's always now, current events actuality, so knowing how everything changes "all at once in sync" is greatly assisted by studying the records in the rocks in the full context of Science. Great stuff.

Love this teaser pres. Makes you want to dip into the lectures for each topic.

These videos are so well done. I am a fan of your lectures, podcasts, and work as a geology communicator. Thanks for putting this together. You really ought to be doing a proper longer format series for a bigger network that can reach more people!

Thanks Nick....I am a BIG Fan of Yours....I really enjoy your lectures.....You have made Me a Geography enthusiast.....Thanks again....If I ever get out Your way , I will have to try n catch 1 of Your Lectures...

Absolutely fascinating, each episode and lecture just makes me want to visit Washington to see the sights first hand. I'd say it's a shame I don't have as many fascinating sites near me, but then remember that Washington is nearly the same size as the UK. But anyway, thanks for the great content.

I can’t believe I caught this the day it was put on youtube! My one tiny criticism is that Chris would not repeat the questions so we could all hear them. Otherwise, simply awesome work!

i sub this channel just to see his videos i love his work

This video should have 300K likes, great man!

The animations brought life to the narration. I have an impression that the rushing water would have filled the entire river, and then some.

Great to see you again Nick!

Another superb and engaging upload from CWU and Nick on his rocks. When Nick was discussing the Mexico - Washington connection, it immediately reminded me of the western provinces of the San Andreas fault, specifically Los Angeles up to San Jose and Reyes Point, all of which are marching north-west due to the actions of the continental transform fault and the motion, direction and subduction of the Pacific and North American plates. . In answer to somebody's question, of how those Mexican rocks got deposited three thousand kilometers north-west? Nick's response meant I was pleasantly vindicated in my musing earlier. The perfect answer. Not bad for an amateur Earth Science academic living in Cornwall. . Great show. Love it. Want more. And it always so truly awesome (I use the word in its literal and appropriate context) to view such stunning scenery. One reason why the Pacific North-West is one of my favourite places on this beleaguered Earth. Shame I'll never visit it.

I enjoyed the Nick On The Rocks videos but I'll be glad to see more in depth (sorry for the pun) subjects again.

I wish he was around when I lived in Othello and went to high school. All his shows are so interesting.

After the third episode, I suddenly flashed on why the opening/closing background music seems so familiar. The series "Firefly" theme music also featured background violin/fiddle melodies, which evoke an old "Wild West-like" feel to to the surrounding scenes, not unlike this music. I wonder if that was deliberate?

Nick, your new videos are spectacular SPECTACULAR. Yummy visuals and sound!! How exciting. Truly, you need to get picked up by National Geographic and then financed. That is what happened to Johnathan Birds' Blue World!

Thank You Nick On the Rocks for sharing.

Really a great way to finish a night...

Wow ! What a great show. Thank you to everybody who was involved in the making of this series. You deserve to be proud.

I miss Eastern Wash ,my home town was Walla Walla..and l miss all Idaho Montana Oregon all those places we used to go.I Love this open Land where can see forever and the most Beautiful Sunset's. Wonderful farm land and The Blue mountains,aw I'm homesick.

Can't get enough of Nick! The Perfect.Presentation.Professor!!

so glad to see you Nick. remarkable program as always. have missed your lectures alot. outstanding job to the whole team.

Love these things! Nick is a hoot!

I've recommended 30 friends to Nick's geo-lectures, all report happiness

I love how the information is presented, its easy to lose time listening to you explain everything

Absolutely LOVE all your talks Nick! You're a great lecturer and story-teller. I feel very fortunate to have stumbled onto your series of talks. Thank you

Really Nice work !!!! So great to have all the drone shots !!!! Awesome !

Sorry but you will never live down the loss of that rock hammer Pofesser. From the Champlain Valley thank your whole team.

Hey, Nick! Fantastic work you do,watched hours of your lectures, EXACTLY what I need to see. J

So excited to see this back! Thanks to all for making this happen! Uh,..could you hurry and do more?

I saw much of this when I lived in Spokane & Walla Walla. Now I'm in southern Arizona exploring ancient volcanoes in the Chiricahua and Galuiro Mountains 25 million yrs old.

Dang I do not care how many times I see these or how long ago they were made.. I always am enthralled by Nicks teaching..

Whoa so basically it's the youngest dryas and show the repeat impacts with it frozen in time that freaking cool thanks Nick and team.

Thanks. Went to Cerro Pedernal yesterday. Saw where chert/flint has been mined for ever. The professor sure has a good series.

Nick is back!! Wonderful!

I don't know about anyone else, but I live near Eugene, and I'm fascinated by your lectures and shows. I'm not only learning geology, but the geography of eastern Washington. I hope you can spread your programming down south! Thanks.

can Nick on the Rocks do a traveling season? The rest of the Country can use You! Utah by it's self, is a season full of interesting talks! Keep up the good work !

Great story Dr. Z ! Have ever thought of opening a bar or tavern cafe called Nick on the Rocks, imagine the geo displays that could be shown, models, samples, equipment involved in today's geology... have a drinks on chilled rocks, food served in geoids etc

BEST prof ever... keep up the great work Nick!

Professor," Totally engaged, your energy is infectious although I'm currently absorbing the particulars, terms even!" Encore Encore....

Thanks CWU. Love the drone footage and knowledge. I'm from Maine and I went to Seattle for about 2 days but didn't get to see much.

I love this program. Thanks!

These new brief videos are very well done. Can't wait to see them all. You are also a great narrator. Not every expert is.

He's BAAAAACK!!!

Just discovered Professor Nick, Im hooked! Thanks for the lessons !!

Beautiful. Fascinating.Informative. Extremely well done. I came upon the presentations by accident. I wish I could have more such happy accident again. Thank you for you thoughtful presentation of a wonderful part of the world with which I'm not familiar.

I am glad he is a teacher we need more like him he can make rocks fascinating.

Thanks Nick for the awesome work. I wish we had a geologist like you in Arizona on RU-vid, especially southern Arizona. This area was also flooded by I think Lake Bonneville.

I live in the boonies but have pretty a pretty good fiber internet connection. These are some great presentations by Professor Zetner and Central Washington University. What a bright spot on today's dark internet! Thank you. Who says all to be seen online is kitten videos, political smear tactics, pictures of people's lunch and peculiar fetishes that provide TMI?