Share Your Work

Promoting or “plugging” your own creations can be difficult, especially in academia and science. In this video, I share a recent project I completed for my PhD and offer a few personal philosophical views on communicating your own contributions. Long story short, I think you should.
I hope you find the geology I describe here interesting. Generally speaking, I describe a few of the steps I took to get from a kernel of an idea to a finished peer-reviewed article. We investigated the timing of rock uplift and exhumation in the Little Belt Mountains of central Montana and considered our results in the context of a regional tectonic synthesis. Geology is beautiful.
You can find the online publication here:
www.researchga...
doi.org/10.113...
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:44 Self-promotion in academia
3:12 PhD chapter 1
13:25 Coulomb wedge theory
14:40 Contemplating life and science
Check out @cadenhowlett on IG. There, I share short essays on topics in geology, philosophy, astronomy, and general science. The platform has about 100k followers.
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[@cleverfoxgaming1970]

I'm from india and still in my semi last year of highschool, my dream is to be a geologist cz i think working on field n traveling to such places would make me really happy, and I've been watching ur videos recently a lot which also made me realise that just watching u do what i want to be doing someday in the future motivates n excites me even more so i just start my day with ur videos... Keep uploading them n thanks

[@cadenhowlett]

Thanks for the comment and I believe in you to make ur dreams a reality! Be patient and curious and follow your heart. Geology is a beautiful science and lifestyle

[@footballct14]

“i think that sharing this may help some people including me” that is a great perspective! good video, thanks for sharing!

[@chanceronemus7634]

Nice work buddy! God damn contribution to MT/ID thrust belt geology.

[@cadenhowlett]

thanks homie, means a lot. conversations w u helped me a lot. I

[@larter_larter]

Congrats on your paper! As you pointed out, academic research ends up behind a paywall, where only a restricted group of people can read it. That's why I think it is extremely important to share your work like this and make it accessible! Spreading knowledge where is available to society at large benefits everyone and promotes more equal opportunities in science. Otherwise, people without a direct link to science will never even consider a scientific career, which is such a loss! Thanks for sharing, Caden!

[@cadenhowlett]

always appreciate your input - thanks for the comment

[@SociotechnicalSystems]

No need to excuse yourself for speaking about your research. My PhD is in sociology of autonomous systems and I've been learning about geology through your videos, which is probably something I would not do otherwise. I liked how you said "fixed a few things that I think were incorrect on previous maps." That's indeed pushing the boundaries of knowledge. Well done!

[@cadenhowlett]

Thanks amigo that means a lot. Press on

[@austinriley6496]

Inspiring as always. Congrats, man! I’ll be starting my masters in GIST at UArizona come January. I’d be lying if I said your videos weren’t an inspiration.

[@cadenhowlett]

Austin that is great to hear homie! Thanks for the support as always

[@ashleytorres2298]

This is truly a great accomplishment! I can't imagine how much work goes into making something like that. Your work and curiosity is mega inspiring.

[@ashleytorres2298]

I'm incredibly curious about GIS and what I could do with it as a career too! Good to hear how fun it can be in different fields.

[@cadenhowlett]

Thank Ashley, I appreciate it. Are you in school and do you have the ability to take an Intro to GIS course?

[@ashleytorres2298]

@@cadenhowlett Yes! I’m in my final year of undergrad studying Anthropology at Cal State Long Beach. Im sure they do! I’m looking into it for my last semester hopefully. I was also looking to start a Coursera course in the meantime.

[@jacobgardner5149]

Dude, congrats on the new paper! So stoked! The process of writing and publishing scientific research is intense, but it’s rewarding to dig deep into a single question or topic and then ultimately contribute to our understanding of it. Keep it up! It’s worth it.

[@jacobgardner5149]

It’s also cool to see you publish with Kurt! In undergrad, I had the pleasure of fossil hunting with him in the Kishenehn Formation (Eocene, northwestern Montana). He explained all the geology to us while we rafted down the Flathead River. It was amazing!

[@cadenhowlett]

Thanks for everything Jacob. So cool you got to do fieldwork with Kurt. He knows ALOT about Montana geology and really was one of the first people to crack those rocks and explain Paleogene extension in the northern cordillera. Hope you’re doing well my friend.

[@juliahowlett1008]

Congratulations on your paper. Many more to come💪🏻 Love your articulation and honesty❤ Keep sharing. Wait, what do you mean by "not genetically predisposed"? 😂 love, mom

[@dylanqxc]

Good morning all the way from spain, finally another video letsgo, glad to see you are doing good, keep up the good work! Hope to see more soon

[@cadenhowlett]

good morning amigo! it's the middle of the night here so I'm going to sleep ! Haha what a world we live in. Thanks for being patient w the content - this science stuff takes up most of my time! more soon, I have lots of ideas.

[@dylanqxc]

Have a proper well deserved rest then, must say you and your work keep inspiring me to pursue my own scientific path as well, thanks for that, hope to keep in touch!

[@dylanqxc]

@@cadenhowlett also congrats on the published journal!

[@kmatejovsky]

Good job, Cade. Good grief. It’s midnight 30 and I am wide awake; perusing these fold thrust models on KZbin university.

[@cadenhowlett]

@@kmatejovskyyo thanks Kev. Your natural curiosity and breadth of knowledge has always inspired me. Hope to see you in the desert again soon ❤

[@JeremyHansPatrick]

Congrats! I've always wondered where ideas for research are born from, especially in this field. At the end of the year having to write my bachelor's thesis about something but I have no idea about what.

[@cadenhowlett]

Yo yo good luck on the thesis. You will find something !

[@willderby-hoffman5193]

Congrats on publishing my man! I’m a first year masters student here at Victoria university of Wellington in New Zealand. My research is looking more at physical geography processes but my background is in both physical geo and geology. Anyway, I’m current writing an essay/literature review about the uplift history of the Central Andes. I was wondering if there are any papers you recommend checking out? Great video btw, keep ‘em comming

[@cadenhowlett]

Thnx for the words! Awesome to hear that you're pursuing a Masters! re central Andes, a good starting point would be the excellent review by Garzione et al. (2017) (Tectonic Evolution of the Central Andean Plateau and Implications for the Growth of Plateaus). Older foundational papers from Cornell will be helpful: Isacks (1988) "Uplift of the Central Andean Plateau and bending of the Bolivian orocline" and Allmendinger et al (1997) "The evolution of the Altiplano-Puna plateau of the central Andes". Have you read these yet? I can provide more modern studies as well but this is the place to start. Enjoy.

[@willderby-hoffman5193]

@@cadenhowlett Thanks! I’ve read a couple of Garzione’s earlier papers. No doubt these will be a big help, cheers mate

[@cadenhowlett]

@@willderby-hoffman5193 she’s an excellent scientist. Did her PhD here at UArizona Geos and is now the dean of the college of science here

[@willderby-hoffman5193]

@@cadenhowlett Yeah cool. Simon Lamb is my lecturer for this particular course (you may be familiar with his work). From what I can tell, they have slightly differing opinions on uplift rates post 25Ma!! Although they both are in favour of lithospheric detachment as the main mechanism driving uplift.

[@cadenhowlett]

@@willderby-hoffman5193 oh that is awesome you get to learn from him. Of course I know his work. Lamb & Davis 2003 - what a classic.

[@footballct14]

by the way, that low arizona sun looks nice. a little golden hour for ya

[@cadenhowlett]

chasing the golden hour :)

[@atlas7097]

Congrats!

[@majdsinjar6984]

My man, your videos are great. And writing papers pushes the geosciences forward. As an undergrad, seeing your videos inspires many students to pursue the academic side of geology instead of industry. Congrats on the paper! I hope you keep making videos in the future

[@cadenhowlett]

Yo yo thanks so much. Your words mean more than you know

[@jazmynejack]

Congratulations on being published ☺☺ but I've just been enjoying my summer since graduating in May. Just being able to recover overall for the last few months has been nice and exactly what I needed but I'm in the process of getting back into school mode because I'm starting U Arizona in January and I'm so excited to learn something new.

[@cadenhowlett]

YO that is so cool that you're starting at UA! Maybe I'll see you around the hallways :)

[@jazmynejack]

@@cadenhowlett unfortunately I’m a online student but maybe ☺️

[@zacharyschmidt3187]

Congrats on the getting the paper to print brotha. Always inspired by your words. I enjoy taking your perspectives and applying them to my sports medicine background. I love how you can describe distal consequences of a proximal process in the geology sense and I can directly apply it to human movement and injury evaluation, treatment, or prevention. Much love homie. Keep crushing ❤

[@cadenhowlett]

Love that comparison. We're doing our things buddy - proud of you.

[@THeking_th08]

Thank you so much bruh. Watching your videos is helping me a lot to get me inspired for my Master's dissertation (It's about Grenvillan anorthosites) . Love from india ❤

[@cadenhowlett]

Love it. So glad it has helped you. U keep me going

[@meetugarejiya7697]

Did I just hear Walter Weed? 😂

[@cadenhowlett]

Walter Harvey Weed. Legendary figure lol

[@cadenhowlett]

😂

[@betopatino8284]

Are you going to be at GSA next week?

[@cadenhowlett]

Yaaa! You have a presentation? I'll try to stop by

[@betopatino8284]

Yeah man!! My booth number is 97 at Hall B (2, David L Lawrence Convention Center). Hope to meet you there!