Steve Dutch

Natural and Applied Sciences,
University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
Office: LS 463 phone: 465-2246
e-mail: dutchs@uwgb.edu
This Home Page: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs

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Contents

Note: The main headings are internal links to places further down the page where more specific information is provided. My schedule is also an internal link. All other links are to other pages.

What's New

General Information

• Spring 2009 Schedule
• University Survival Guide
• Personal biographical information (Sorry, nothing incriminating!)
• Got a Problem or Complaint?
• General Student Responsibilities

Course Information

Spring 2009 Schedule

University Survival Guide

• General Student Responsibilities
• Who are these people and why are they messing with my mind? Ever wonder why you have to take some of the courses you do? This might help.
• Taking Multiple Choice Tests
• What is an A? What exactly do professors want in an essay exam or term paper? Includes samples of A, B, C, and D-F writing with explanations why.
• References for College Papers Can I reference my class notes? (No) What about the Internet? (Maybe) Get The Rules here.
• Top Ten No Sympathy Lines Warning! Blunt Language!
• How to Learn Facts
• Beyond Index Cards

Personal biographical information

(Sorry, nothing incriminating!)

Research and Personal Scholarly Interest

Geology

• Geology of Wisconsin
  
• Wisconsin Geologic Locality Descriptions
• Unusual Wisconsin Weather Events
• Virtual Field Trips
• Geologic Maps of the States
• Leaverites As in "Leave 'er right where you found 'er." Got an odd rock or feature on a rock and no clue where to start looking for it? Try here.
• Giant Waves in Lituya Bay, Alaska; USGS Professional Paper 354-C.  I may have purchased the last available copy of this classic paper, but since the references I have to it elicit a fair amount of interest, I have scanned it as a service to the geological community. It has also been put on line by the USGS.
• Geology Coloring Book Inspired by correspondence with a high school teacher who asked if there was any such thing. I didn't know of any, but why not? If any field is visual, geology is.

Mapping

• Index to USGS 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 Maps Why doesn't the USGS have something like this?
• Spreadsheet Index to USGS 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 Maps
• Canada 1:250,000 Topographic Map Index
• Wisconsin 1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
• Minnesota 1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
• Michigan 1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
• Illinois-Indiana 1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
• Iowa 1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
• Convert Between Geographic and UTM Coordinates 

Other Science Topics

• Crystallography, symmetry, tilings and polyhedra
• Other recreational math items (number powers, paper folding)
• Science, pseudoscience, and irrationalism
• Computing Tips

Publications and Presentations

• Thesis: The Creighton Pluton, Ontario, and its Significance to the Geologic History of the Sudbury Region
• Tri-State Field Conference 1980: Geology of Eastern and Northeastern Wisconsin
• What If? The Ice Ages Had Been A Little Less Icy?
• U.S. Daily Temperature Extremes
• American Chemical Society Talks
• Power Point Presentations on Various Subjects

History and Travel

• The 432d Civil Affairs Battalion in Pictures
  • Gulf War - Kurdistan, 1991; Photos
  • Bosnia, 1996
  • Cornerstone 98 Photos - Bulgaria
• Britain-Ireland Photos 1998 
• Antarctica-South America 1975
• Historic Places
• A Year in Turkey
• World Trade Center and the Bicentennial Tall Ships Parade 1976. How I got to see this event from the World Trade Center is a classic case of being at the right place at the right time. Actually, my wife was at the right place at the right time, proving it's not what you know, but who you know. Considering that millions of people saw this event, amazingly, there does not seem to be another photo archive like this on the Web.

My Web Philosophy

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. (Robert Wilensky)

Because according to the internet, Ron Paul will be President and Serenity is the best movie evah (Fizzyland)

• It's not so much surfing as Dumpster-Diving. I used to wonder how bad it could be if we just let anybody publish their ideas. Now I know. Real bad.
• I like computers. I am awed by them. I am delighted by what they can do. But I don't trust them! Electronic storage is ephemeral and fragile. Not all of that is bad. The useful half-life of most information is a few years. But I do not assume I will always have a Web to access or even floppy disks to read. If I find some useful information, I download it. If it's really important, I may even make a hard copy. If a national emergency breaks down our telecommunications, the Web is history. If a rogue nation or terrorist sets off a nuclear weapon 100 miles above the U.S., most P.C.'s are history (check out something called EMP). I still have a slide rule.
• graphics? GRAPHICS? WE DON' NEED NO STINKING GRAPHICS! Too many Web pages are cluttered with useless graphics (eye candy). See this campus's web page for a case in point. See how long it takes you to figure out what classes we offer, where, and when. In case you're not aware of it, data storage and transmission capacity are finite resources. Given the spatial nature of geology and some of my avocational interests like geometry and polyhedra, I have a lot of graphics, but I try to keep them to the necessary minimum in number and simplicity. Drawings are mostly 16-color, with no sound or unnecessary animation, to keep download time short and keep material accessible to users with low-end systems. Photos are standard JPEG format, 24-bit color.
• Chunky, not creamy. I figure if you're looking for information you want to get it, so my pages tend to be on the long side, rather than broken into short segments connected by links. It may take longer to download the page, but once you do, everything is there. Nothing is more infuriating to me than to burrow six levels deep into a site only to find out that what I need isn't there.
• Links. I know where my own stuff is. I have enough to do keeping track of my own pages without worrying if somebody else paid his Compuserve bill. I have had enough experiences chasing from one site to another, only to reach a dead end or have a crash, to conclude that links to remote sites are often useless. If I use them, they will go as directly as possible to the item of interest. Unless it's a stable site, like a government agency, I won't link to it. (Even some agency sites have shut down, and sites are being reorganized all the time.) In most cases, if I am aware of sites of interest, I will mention them so you can look them up with a search engine. For this reason, I don't cross-link.

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Created 15 December 1996 Last Update 13 October 2009

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