About this web site

This site is maintained in a corner of the Department of Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle. It began as bigdirt.geology.washington.edu, running the NCSA httpd server (version 1.01, if my memory is not failing me too badly) on a SPARC2 with 32 megs (After we upgraded it.) of memory. The Department of Geological Sciences has since merged with Geophysics, to form Earth and Space Sciences, and bigdirt (and duff and rocky2) were retired long ago.

Much of riverhistory and pugetsoundlidar were built by others, but Harvey Greenberg is the last web worker left standing.

We are running five websites:

on the hardware in the ESS Server Room which had been acquired by the defunct Puget Sound LiDAR Consortium. This all will eventually be moved to a virtual machine. If we forget to pay registration renewal fees for pugetsoundlidar.org, look for https://pugetsoundlidar.ess.washington.edu. I have upgraded my website editor form vi to vim, 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.

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 resolve (again) to frequently check my error log and fix broken links. [Note: I have not done it.]
As staff emeritus, the web curator devotes more time to pickleball than to web maintenance.

Web Curator: Harvey Greenberg