I’m not trying to be mean. It’s as true for journalists as it is for drillers. We’ll get to that in a second. First, I want to talk about a great experience the editors here at National Driller had last month. Columnist Brock Yordy and Stock Drilling invited us to the 5th annual WMU-AIPG Field Day.
The event, put on with help from the Michigan chapter of the American Institute of Professional Geologists, fit into the second of two six-week Hydrogeology Field Courses that Western Michigan University holds each summer. (Yordy wrote about the first one in August’s issue.) It attracted geology and hydrogeology students from all over to actually get an idea of what you, the drillers, do. Stock Drilling had rigs running wire line coring, soil sampling, standard penetration testing and direct-push with imaging. I know I found the experience helpful. I bet the students geeking out on limestone cores and the relative qualities of different soils hit seventh heaven.