If you live in the Poteau/Monroe area or have driven through here in the last couple of years, you have probably noticed the landslides on the west side of Sugarloaf Mountain. I submitted some of the photos Donna had taken to the Oklahoma Geological Survey office at OU. The geologist who studies landslides, Netra Regmi, PhD, emailed me back and asked for additional photos.
Donna contacted Steve Humphries, who is from the Monroe area, about submitting some of the pictures he had posted of the landslide on Facebook. His photos were taken on the mountain at the landslide area. Steve gave her permission to submit them to Dr. Regmi.
After several emails, Dr. Regmi asked for Steve’s and my permission to use the photos in an article about the landslide in Science Direct, which provides access to scholarly journals used by researchers in many fields of study including geology. Once again, Donna contacted Steve who gave permission for his photos to be used. I contacted Dr. Regmi and gave him permission to use our photos in the article.
In June, Dr. Regmi emailed me and said the article had been accepted for publication and sent me a link to the unpublished document. I tried to read it, but it has a lot of scientific jargon so didn’t hold my attention well. I just scrolled through it until I saw our photos.
Last week, I received another email from Dr. Regmi with the link to the published article. If you’d like to read the abstract and see a thumbnail image of our photos, here is the link. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169555X19301965. Look at the photo thumbnails on the left side of the abstract. Find the top row, third picture with the smaller inset. Steve’s is the right side inset. Both Steve and I are listed in the acknowledgements as the photographers of our respective photos.
It’s exciting to know that our photos were included in the article and that my name is listed as the one who submitted them. Who know how many researchers will see those pictures!
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