@CSUMB: Capstone Day 2: Meeting with Doug
At 1:30 this afternoon I met with Dr. Doug Smith, my geology professor and the primary coordinator of my capstone, and showed him the key maps I completed some weeks ago. After looking over them and going over how I sectioned, mapped, and keyed the front of the library, Doug and I went on a tour of the fossilstone facade.
I showed him how and why and in what ways I decided to map the facade and how the ordering was as user friendly as I could make. He kept on giving me the thumbs up as we wondered around for over an hour, investigating the various tiles. I showed him the Oro 1, the sand dollar, the ammonites, and the shells that I mistook for leaves on both the front and the back.
I told him I was open to any changes he thought would be easier, and so we altered some things, chuck some others, and kept the majority. When I asked him the overall impression of my work so far, his reply was "Good trajectory." which in Doug-speak I think means "Impressive work!" but I don't want to push my luck this early in the game and toot my own horn!
Next step is photo-mapping tomorrow with on-photo annotations to follow! In the interim, I will be hard at work identifying specimens by their appropriate scientific name and reading up on carbonate petrology. I need to be able to refer to the samples in the appropriate lingo, so as to not sound like a n00b anymore!
(It was really a good thing I dropped those classes, or I would not be sleeping!)
I have also thought of a more meaningful way to bring in the geomyth aspects then the comic, which will serve now as an appendix to the overall project. Accordingly, I will need to tap by geomyth contacts to see about literature involving ammonites. And this is why I love Facebook.
I showed him how and why and in what ways I decided to map the facade and how the ordering was as user friendly as I could make. He kept on giving me the thumbs up as we wondered around for over an hour, investigating the various tiles. I showed him the Oro 1, the sand dollar, the ammonites, and the shells that I mistook for leaves on both the front and the back.
I told him I was open to any changes he thought would be easier, and so we altered some things, chuck some others, and kept the majority. When I asked him the overall impression of my work so far, his reply was "Good trajectory." which in Doug-speak I think means "Impressive work!" but I don't want to push my luck this early in the game and toot my own horn!
Next step is photo-mapping tomorrow with on-photo annotations to follow! In the interim, I will be hard at work identifying specimens by their appropriate scientific name and reading up on carbonate petrology. I need to be able to refer to the samples in the appropriate lingo, so as to not sound like a n00b anymore!
(It was really a good thing I dropped those classes, or I would not be sleeping!)
I have also thought of a more meaningful way to bring in the geomyth aspects then the comic, which will serve now as an appendix to the overall project. Accordingly, I will need to tap by geomyth contacts to see about literature involving ammonites. And this is why I love Facebook.