Wow, wow, and wow again. Little did I know on March 17, 2020 that a wonderful world opened to this very old lady in Mesa, Arizona . I remember so well telling my husband look what I found on RU-vid. I have been a fly on the wall to the most unique educational experiences of my life. Prof. Zentner, you are a magnet that brought together the most knowledgeable and charismatic people during this turbulent time. The civility, kindness and knowledge shared has been unbelievable.
Excellent! Well done! Thank y'all for your time and effort to do all that compiling. That correspondence was something else! There's a wealth of information, interest and altruism in this group. Zentnerds are just like a big, happy family! 😀
I SO appreciate these follow up conversations! It is so good to "meet" the Eugene Team, and hear of the process and success of all their efforts we are all so grateful for, as well as Nick, who inspires us all!
Hope to be able to shake hands with them. I'm planning to attend at least ONE of these lectures, if not all of them. Not blessed with a lot of travel $ to be in Ellensburg for all 3 nights, but it would be well worth it just to put names to faces, and YT Chat handles to the names.
Well done all of you! Thanks for your passion and Lucy I thank you for your eloquent and heartfelt thoughts you shared at the end. NIck, I am continually blown away by your ability to bring so many disparate people together for an educational and fun experience. You all have my sincere thanks!
Extraordinary. The power of community! ❤ I have learned so much. I was recently watching some recent pictures from Mars Perseverance. I recognised the signs of ancient floods almost immediately. I must be learning. Never too old to do so. 🇬🇧
Great show Nick and a big thank you to the Eugene Team! Sometimes the most important digging in geology is not done in the field! I look forward to meeting some of you in Ellensburg soon.
Just getting to watch this discussion and I am riveted. It's just fascinating and fantastic to get insights into how this archival research works in a nuts and bolts fashion. Thank you so much to the Eugene Team! 🎉❤😊 Just yesterday, I learned a friend of mine is helping to organize the upcoming Northwest Science Association meeting. We started talking about Thomas Large and NSA with much enthusiasm. The Eugene Team's efforts have added a new color to my world. Much gratitude. ❤
One more cherry on top of the Bretz-Large chocolate sundae! What a stroke of genius to put together this "Eugene Team" panel of colaborators to explain how they sprang into action in response to your request for help. Hopefully their story will inspire others to dig deeper into other archives, the University of Chicago's for example, to reveal more interesting tidbits in the Bretz scablands saga. It's all so fascinating! Collectively under your leadership "the community" has brought the intriguing Dr. Harley Bretz back to life, and exposed his understanding of glacial floods to the masses. Congratulations and gratitude to you all!
One of the awesome things about this entire effort is that while to some viewers of A-Z would look upon this wealth of background on Bretz as "ancient history," given his work here started over 100 years ago, it's not _that_ ancient. This interesting man lived to the ripe age of 99, having only passed away in 1981 -- plenty of overlap between his life and many of _our_ lives. _My_ cherry on top is that I live at or around the footsteps of Harlen Bretz, as he traversed just about the entire state from the turn of the 20th Century until the 1960s. I still have a photo of a plaque put up at Vista House on Crown Point in the Gorge, with one of Bretz's quotes after being vindicated decades after the Ambush Meeing: _"Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor, and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world are challenged."_
This was excellent! So glad to meet the Eugene Team virtually, and looking forward to meeting some of you in person in April. You guys did an excellent job combing through the papers and finding all the treasures, and I loved hearing the Hobbs story John! Thank you for all your hard work, and contribution to "the pleasure of finding things out". PS I am itching to see what is in the Thomas Condon papers - I have already done a lot of research on him, especially with the fossil horses. Thanks for the tip!
Fabulous follow-ups, thank you, Nick! And thank you, Eugene Team, for your passion, initiative--and presenter skills! You're all great in front of the Zoom camera!
"Lay-Tah" not Lah-Tah - a silly nitpick when compared to the fantastic breadth and depth of the work that "The Eugene Team" has done for us all!! With more to come!
@@chiefJohnWright Like I said, silly nitpick, you all have done a fantastic job and that timeline of yours in your "Voice of the Narrator" was incredible!!
I don't know where to ask Professor Zentner this question, but, Will the lecture, on April 4,5 and 6th be on RU-vid? I am a Fan, living in Graham, near Puyallup, on the West side. I could use a vacation, to drive over to CWU, to see You, in person. I'll do that....I could drive up to Moses Coulee, too! There's so much I've learned, since auditing Geo 101 a few years ago. Thank You, Professor Zentner. Donna Chassie
This comment is a little off-topic, but I had just re-watched your Saddle Mountains video and I wanted to ask a question after you mentioned that it was definitely a fault, is the fault still moving?
Just caught up to this video. I heard Yale mentioned. I am 2 hours from Yale. Has anybody done any initial work on what is there that I could followup on? Maybe John could help finding out online? I don’t have a lot of time but some time. -Leslie near Boston