Many years ago I wrote The Motley View, a column of occasional pieces for the Newsletter of the long-extinct, but recently revived, Berkeley Geoengineering Alumni Association (BGAA) hosted by the GeoEngineer.org website. Why Motley View? I wrote the first article, so I got to name the column. I thought the word Motley was appropriate for several…
Author: Ed Medley
Ed Medley has been on a random walk for over 50 years. Many scribbles and snapshots at this site are from his vagabond transits; others are from his decades of international experience in geological and geotechnical engineering, academia, and mineral exploration prospecting.
Are YOU Ed Medley?
Silly question? Not if you are one of the few Ed Medleys in the world. So the question is intended for Edna Medley, Edgar Medley, Eddlestone Medley and of course, Edmund Medley. I am an Edmund William Medley. There are not too many of those. My name “Ed Medley“, is shorthand for my whole life,…
MS and PhD: What is the Difference?
A recent question on Quora was: “What Does a PhD student know that a MS student doesn’t”? I started to write my opinion and realized that it was going to take a while so stopped. But after some reflection, this what I think – blurbed out here instead of Quora.
Lost in Migration/Translation
Posted on October 24, 2020 by Ed Medley A couple of weeks ago, a colleague in Iran suggested gently that my bimrocks.com site needed some overhaul. He had found it useful when starting his research a few years ago but now thinks it should be improved. He is right, I realized abashedly. After far too many years of…