About this web site

This site is maintained on an old server in a semi-private lab in the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. The address duff.geology.washington.edu reflects the old department name. Now that the Department of Geological Sciences has merged with Geophysics, we are also known as duff.ess.washington.edu. This site is mostly the [part-time] work of the web curator, who frequently lapses into the first person. I have been maintaining web servers and content since about 1993--I forget exactly when, but it was in the days before anyone had heard of netscape. In that time, I have fallen far behind the times. I write most of my pages in vi, though I am most proud of unix shell commands with 10-component pipes that automatically produce html. They include ls2html, which builds an index.html on any directory. I have finally figured out how to use aml to make clickable maps, and they are beginning to permeate the site.

As a staff member working for one professor (Dave Montgomery), my primary mission is to publicize and share the work of Dave and his grad students. This task is proceeding very slowly, as everyone is busy with other tasks.
A second goal is the build web links to anything interesting that I happen to have on my disk. This includes gigs of digital elevation and orthophoto data and various documents of various ages.
I am also charged with the promotion of GIS, particularly within the department, and try to provide materials for people who want to get started. I also aid with the distribution of GIS software on campus.

This site is up most of the time, but I may interrupt operations at any time with absolutely no warning. We lost some uptime when our mail server was hacked, and will lose more as we work on security issues. If you find the server down for more than an hour, feel free to ask me if I know what's up. I have installed a UPS, so the server will continue to run at least 10 minutes after Armegeddon

Small pieces of this site are maintained by grad students. The URL http://www.pugetsoundlidar.org is aliased to http://rocky2.ess.washington.edu/data/raster/lidar/, and is separately maintained. The url http://riverhistory.ess.washington.edu is aliased to http://rocky2.ess.washington.edu/riverhistory, is maintained mostly by David Biggs and Amir Sheikh.

I resolve (again) to frequently check my error log and fix broken links. Robots are excluded from the document and software distribution directories.

Web Curator: Harvey Greenberg

Last updated : Sat, 05 Jun 2004 01:52:27 GMT