Steve Dutch
Natural and Applied Sciences,
University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay
e-mail: dutchs@uwgb.edu
This Home Page: http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs
Active links are indicated. Other items are projected or
under development:
A note of caution about using this site. (Includes
my policy on abusive material.)
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.
General Information
I'm retired so unless I teach a course ad-hoc, no schedule
will be posted.
Course Information (Most Recent Syllabi)
(Sorry, nothing incriminating!)
Research and Personal Scholarly Interest
Geology
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
- Index to State 1:24,000
Topographic Maps Check for current links
- 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
- Ohio 1:24,000
Topographic Map Index
- North Dakota
1:24,000 Topographic Map Index
- Convert Between
Geographic and UTM Coordinates
Other Science Topics
Publications and Presentations
History and Travel
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 thit 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.
Citations
I occasionally get requests from people who want to use
material from this site but who want a formal citation. In
general, works that are integral to the page are cited. If
there is no citation on the page, it's for one of two
principal reasons:
- The content is my original work but not published in a
journal. There is no other reference.
- The content is covered in many sources (for example the
pages on stereonet constructions or structural geology
methods) and any of those standard works are suitable
citations.
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me by e-mail Especially let me know if you have any
problems with my pages or links, or any constructive
suggestions.
Created 15 December 1996 Last Update
27 December 2012
Not an official UW-Green Bay site