Curtis Murphy

NC State qualified for national soil judging last week. I didn’t get to bed until 3 am last Friday, hence the late tweet. We had the #1, 3, and 4 judgers. Congrats to the team!

Day 2, soil judging practice.

Day 1, out here judging soils in Kentucky.

Soil judging is in KY this October. Talked about fragipans (and by extension, loess) for about an hour. Was reminded of this gem students @murphyc1928 ? made after our first contest at WKY.

As of today, I am officially an Associate Professor with tenure. That is all.

NC State placed 5th in National Soil Judging. Go pack!

Out here judging soils in Iowa for the national contest. Go pack.

She thought she could. So she did. Sarah Bailey, just two months into her freshman year, won 1st in the Eastern regional soil judging contest. 🏅 Read what spurred her interest in soil science and how @MuckDragon's entire team is setting records. 🎉🐺 cals.ncsu.edu/crop-and-soil-…

NCSU placed 2nd in the region and punched our ticket to nationals in the spring. #1 individual judger was Sarah Bailey, a true freshman. #8 was @lexii_seal . Go pack! Thanks to WVU for hosting a great contest!

We’re out here judging soils for the Region 2 contest. @CropAndSoil

Last day of practice, it’s fragic. Soil judging contest is tomorrow, good luck to all students involved!

Day 2, in the West Virginia woods for soil judging practice.

Beautiful day to judge some soils in West Virginia…day 1 regional practice.

Practice makes perfect in soil judging. 2 weeks until regional contest in West Virginia.

who needs a plasma cutter when you can just wire 100 car batteries together?

The TT to Stirling castle ends on a big rock plateau with characteristic vertical ‘columns’. This plateau is magmatic, and made from basalt. The columns form parallel to the cooling direction, and are typical for basalt. But the Stirling plateau is not a lava: the magma never reached the surface through a volcano. Instead, the magma intruded between layers of sediment, pumping it up like an air bed. This known as a ‘sill’. Erosion, for instance during the ice ages by glaciers, brought it eventually to the surface, as a nice defendable place to build a castle and to finish a bike race! geo-sports.org/2023/geology-o… #UCIWorldChampionships #GlasgowScotland2023

Buys *nothing* with university purchasing card in a month, gets nasty email regarding lack of receipts for *no purchases*. University requests personal check to reconcile the difference. Sure, let me make out a check for *zero dollars* and mail it to you at a loss of $0.66.

There's a legendary semiconductor engineer called Bob Widlar has an entire section in his Wikipedia article called "personality"

@marissa_digs_it Studying PBR as a new standard reagent?

Science is happening…

Just out here, in a very remote area, using a vibracore to measure blue carbon accumulation in abandoned farm fields... @marissa_digs_it @CheersJacob @NCSS1899