Nick On The Rocks - Season 3 Premiere
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2019
- CWU geology professor Nick Zentner hosts the debut of 'Nick On The Rocks - Season 3'. All six new episodes (5 minutes each) are featured. Q & A with the crowd is featured. Taped on January 24, 2019 in CWU's Student Union Theater. Executive Producer Linda Schactler and Video Producer/Editor/Director Chris Smart make the episodes possible. Nick On The Rocks - a geology video series - airs on PBS television stations throughout the Pacific Northwest.
It's September 2022, I'm watching this from West Lothian, Scotland.
Did you ever imagine your lectures would become so popular, so far across the world?
My interest was peaked because by our Great Glen Fault, here in Scotland, we have the 'parallel roads' of Glen Roy, and the remnants of the super volacanoes of Glencoe and the Isle of Skye, from when Western Scotland broke away from the eastern edge of the North American continent.
We have ancient volcanic plugs dotting our landscape, pretty much like you have your 'Yellowstone hotspots', and classic post glacial topography, but no obvious natural scablands.
This guy is a heckuva speaker and instructor. One of the best I've seen.
A new geology presentation by Nick Zentner brightened my whole day!
This one's a little unusual...but thanks! Four new lectures with chalkboards coming in April, 2019.
@@Ellensburg44 I thought it was great, the video and production quality on those segments is outstanding!
Don't get too carried away, he has a conviction for kid fiddling
My friends and family from out of state must think I'm strange when I get excited to tell them all about our interesting geology in Washington. Thanks!
Zentner is the Eddie Woo of Geology. _Orderly, Concise, Complete, and Excellent!_
Ha! Thank you.
Who needs Bohemian Rhapsody when Nick will, Nick will, Rock you! ?
This retired geologist (M.S. 1975) loves what you are doing to fire the interest in young folks into our wonderful science. Thank YOU and major cudos!!
Richard Mourdock he’s definitely someone who has found his niche and is a great story teller.
Not just young people R.Mourdock. Carl Sagan got me interested in Science with his series "Cosmos" in the early 80's. Now many years later I'm glad I've found Nick's YT videos, I find geology non stop interesting.
Each of these episodes was extremely well done. You Rock Nick
Thank you!
I see what you did there. Very clever.
duh duh tss
I waited for what seemed like an eternity for this. Nick, you are a teacher down to your DNA. As a Science teacher of 20 years, I salute you. You make me proud of the teaching profession. Always leave them wanting more buddy.
How does this guy not have a TV show on Discovery Channel or something? He could singlehandedly revive them from the doldrums of vacuous trash that dominate the network now. Greatly appreciate these lectures and I'm kicking myself for not attending CWU after being accepted 15 years ago!
You have been watching his 127+ lectures he has taught on youtube last year and this year…?
He's been featured in a few documentaries I've seen on Netflix, Amazon, etc. But I don't think he has his own show besides what is on YT.
Beciase discovery and nat geo and history Channel all stopped showing actual educational material about a decade ago
He has hundreds of videos.. why would he want to participate in the Chinese corrupted discovery channel...he's way smarter than that..wake up idiot....
He's a college professor and hopes to get students to become geologists
Japanese records are how we know the exact time of the super quake, I finally understand how it's so precise!
Oh my gosh my favorite UA-cam professor is back !!!♥️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Hi Lynn!
👏🏼👏🏼hi professor👍🏼great presentation 👍🏼♥️are we going to get more ?
@@lynnmitzy1643 Four new chalkboard lectures in April, 2019.
@@Ellensburg44 I'd drive up from Salem!
@@Ellensburg44 I wish you would repeat the questions so we could hear them when watching the video.
I moved to Washington, from Georgia, about six years ago. I keep coming back to learn more about the state from you, Nick. Thanks!
This guy is an international treasure. I'd love to be able to attend one of his seminars or classes, but it's a little too far for me to travel... I'm in Scotland.
Hello from America, Fiona. Thanks for your super nice comment. I'd like to visit your country some day...
I visited Scotland in my youth. Its geology is fascinating, e.g. - the lochs. Please post any UA-cam links on same if you have them.
@@Ellensburg44 , You'd have fun with the geology of the Cuillins on the Isle of Skye, formed when Britain tore away from the US coast and basaltic lava flows erupted from the fissures formed. The Black Cuillin are the the remains of a magma chamber, composed mainly of gabbro. Maybe you could wrangle a research field trip, lol.
One of the reasons I began watching your lectures was your use of chalk boards. "At last," thought I, "someone who understands how drawing diagrams in stages conveys information better than any slide or animation". I've taught molecular biology and a chalk board is the most valuable tool you can use when trying to explain complex processes. So let's hear it for chalk boards!!!
I am in the US Fiona, but I am about as far from Nick as I am from you! I too would love to attend some of these lectures, but 3000 miles is a bit much...
@@philbuglass4857 Maybe we can convince him to do a world tour, rock star style. I was involved, many years ago, in being a demonstrator in a week long workshop on molecular biology techniques for PhD students and academics who hadn't had to tackle this before, but wanted a better understanding of the sorcery involved. It ran during the summer recess and was the most fun I've ever had. If Nick ran one of those I'd make the effort to attend.
Greetings from Victoria, Australia. I am watching this with my mother who was originally from Washington State.
So glad Nick is back - The best geology videos by a great presenter. Enjoying all the way from Western Australia
Hello from America! Thanks for watching.
Found this, and without intending to, in an empty house, I barked out loud: "COOL!" SO happy for more Nick!!
Amazing work everybody. Thankyou for showing us the beauty of Washington and explaining how it got there.
Truly admire your work Nick, I love Washington State's landscape. Recently got to cross one off of my bucket list and visit Mount St Helens. You've given me a few more to put on that list. Take care from Kansas.
Enjoy your next visit up here, AJ! Thanks for the comment.
lucky me. I came upon this site a month ago. Nick is a gem. Until now, a rock was a rock more or less. He is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about geology. Like i said, lucky me. Thank you Nick for giving this old geezer a new and exciting gift to ponder. My life is richer because of this.
I studied the Ice Age floods in college (I went to Central Washington University, got a BA in physical geography) but Nick has taught me so many new things in his videos. It's fantastic! Thanks Nick.
I love watching these lectures. They really help pass the time while I am deployed overseas!
Thank you for your service !
Good to see you back Nick.
Non geologist rockhound here. Though I live down in Texas hill country, I find myself applying what I learn from these videos to what I see when I go to Big Bend or some such place. Thanks much for doing these. They are invaluable to me!
NYer here that is planning a trip out there to see first hand these things you are showing.
Thank you for making these videos.
Absolutely love CWU and now I love it even more. Such great faculty, staff and students. Only did a short summer session there but it was a blast I’ll always treasure!
A picture is worth a 1000 words. I really enjoy my lessons Dr Nick. Scott in CO
Nice comment, Scott. Thanks.
This is so interesting and so well done, so way to go, Nick Zentner! Even though I will be 73 years old this year, watching these videos makes me want to go back to school and study geology!
Finally! About Time!!! OMG I was jonesing for new content! It's going to be a good night! Whoo hooo.... gawd I'm a dork but I love Uncle Nick!
Ha! Enjoy Punky.
@@Ellensburg44I certainly will, been waiting to watch this all day. Now I've got my jammies on and ready for bed, so it's time for the world's greatest professor!
Thanks for sharing your lectures with us. Maybe one day I'll drive out there and attend. I live in Michigan though so that would be a long cold drive.
I know just how you fell! I thought I had seen the last of his lectures!
I know the feeling
Dr. Zentner Rules!!! I absolutely love his videos and lectures. Geology rocks!
Thanks Nick and company for enriching our minds with these amazing geologic facts! Born in Kennewick many moons ago, if only I had known back then what you have taught me.
I suspect that the Carolina basins and the Nebraska rain water basins are connected to some of these catastrophic flood events!
Nick I have just started to watch the video and am extremely glad to see you are back. The torment is over :)
Ha! Happy to hear that your suffering is over.
It was tough let me tell you. I thought all common decency of education and enlightenment of the particulars of the world around us was gone. It was like cereal without milk. Doable but.....
Been to the area but never understood the magnificence of it all. Thank you Nick!
This is so fascinating. I love it❤💯
I'm watching from Knoxville Tn, the foothills to The Smoky Mountains ❤
One of the finest lecturers I've ever seen/heard. So pleased to come upon this. Nick you've inspired me to buy a rock hammer and pack up the kids and take them on little impromptu field trips on the weekends. Thanks man, great work.
Nice! Thank you.
Can't get enough of Professor Nick Zentner! He explains things in such a way that even the average viewer with little to no geology can truly begin to comprehend the enormity and wonder of the Pacific Northwest in a way they never could have imagined.
I have lived all over the Pacific Northwest including Ellensburg. I absolutely love every minute of these programs. I have learned so much from Nick and have enjoyed the educational content. I presently live in Southern Idaho. Please keep it coming!!!!
Try qs i might, I just can't get over to attend one of these lectures and presentations because i no longer drive a car. : ( But, these videos are so wonderful. Nick, you help keep me a little saner and more content with your humor and ability to distill down the basic yet "nourishing" factoids and demonstrations of the textures and sounds of our beloved WA geologic history.
My dad and I used to light out with sandwiches and a big thermos of coffee, rock hammers at our sides, maps and sheer cussedness to explore some of the true wonders of our beloved WA State (I'm remembering our day trips from B'ham. As a family, we went much farther afield.). I was the only kid I knew who shared time with her dad that way. We petted those big palm fossils on Chuckanut Dr., drove to Artist's Point at the end of the road towards Mt. Baker and visualized the mud flows that ended up in Baker Lake, gathered rocks in Whatcom County streams to see who could be first to find olivine from Mt. Shasta and scrambled up the Nooksack headwaters to marvel at how a river was born. Now, he's gone and my old bod has betrayed me but I can still tag along with you thanks to You Tube and PBS! I want you to know how precious your contributions are to me. Thank you so much!
Seriously one of the most incredible lecturers of any era! Right up there with Faraday, Feynman, and Walter Lewin! This is wildly inspiring stuff. Almost tempted to switch majors, if I wasn't already so in love with Linguistics!
1/20/2023
I live on the other side of the country. I grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. There I would find rocks that didn't fit the local geology, that being thick beds of clay, shale, sand stone and some limestone. Now I know how the pink colored rock I found (I called gneiss (probably wrong) got there. I now live in northern Georgia where there is a lot of quartz and shist. Since my childhood geology has been an interest to me, this and all of Nicks shows and lectures I really enjoy, Thanks. ;-)
Thanks Nick, as a fellow Wisconson transplant to WA state myself in the 70's, I appreciate all you do and your great geology teaching skills.
I love being able to take your college class right here at home without having to fork out thousands of dollars. Thank You 🙏
Watching and loving it from Australia. Ive been watching for a year. I appreciate your passion for for geology Nick.
Your part of the world contrasts as sharply as it gets from mine. That fact and your outstanding delivery to the layperson, demonstrates that when you dig deep enough into any story it can enlighten, inform, and grow seeds of passion in others. Keep up the good work.
Superb videos and beautifully presented information! Many thanks from Winchester, UK
What I love about Nick is his ability to articulate complex/contentious concepts into a cohesive narrative. To me that indicates someone who really grasps a subject. Keep up the great work!
Fun fact, in Germany "Zentner Nick" as search term using DuckDuckGo renders this video already as the second on the hit list.
And Zentner is a real word in German (50 kg mass)
You are a star. And rightfully so.
Shut the hell up with your fancy worded nonsense and learn something...if you're capable to retain information,you smart asses are a dime a dozen...
@@ericgregory8020 I'm fairly sure I forgot more things in my live than you ever learnt.
Nick Zentner - International Rock Star! The behind-the-scenes stories add to the excellence of the presentations. Now Washington in one more place on my bucket list! Thanks and keep up the good work. :)
I agree. He generates interest that draws the very best kind of attention to the state of Washington.
This is a spin off of his enthusiastic and competent delivery.
It's always now, current events actuality, so knowing how everything changes "all at once in sync" is greatly assisted by studying the records in the rocks in the full context of Science. Great stuff.
i sub this channel just to see his videos i love his work
Thank you!
Me too! Today PAID OFF!!
Same here. Possibly my favorite professor. Gives me an urge to run outside and dig in the snow to find some rocks. :)
@@Ellensburg44 i would love to come over one day for your seminars, and thank you again
Me, too.
I've been watching these on our PBS here and LOVE THEM, thank you so much for making these! Very well done and never fails to interest and inform, and entertain and educate. This is the sort of content I dreamed of when working on web in the way, way back days.
I wish he was around when I lived in Othello and went to high school. All his shows are so interesting.
Great to see you again Nick!
Same here!
Been waiting a long time for this. Thank you, Nick!
Enjoy!
I can only fail to tell you how excited I was to see this new video! Although I am an accounting student (soon professor), I am so passionate about geology! Your lectures help feed my intellectual and childhood curiosity. I cannot wait to see more!!!
Absolutely fascinating, each episode and lecture just makes me want to visit Washington to see the sights first hand. I'd say it's a shame I don't have as many fascinating sites near me, but then remember that Washington is nearly the same size as the UK. But anyway, thanks for the great content.
Hello from America. Come visit!
Wait, wait! If you're from the UK, you've got fascinating geology to study and observe. If nothing else; understatement, you've got great fossil exposures to hunt.
@Nick Zentner, I definitely will have to visit at some time
@destravir, I live in the Midlands, its not very geologically inspiring other than maybe the church stretton fault. Scotland, Wales, Cornwall etc. are all great areas for geology, but unfortunately I'm nowhere near them
Hope this guy is payed well. Probably the beast teacher I have ever seen. Captivating, respectful, clear and entertaining. Could make a bowl of porridge interested in geology. Would like to see him analyse Icelandic geology.
Your porridge comment made me lol!!
Nick is still doing great work teaching the next generation of geologists and recording interviews with the experts.
Oh, and apologizing to Patrick, where appropriate.
Seen it before but enjoyed watching again. Questions and answers are great to add to knowledge thank you all
Wow ! What a great show. Thank you to everybody who was involved in the making of this series. You deserve to be proud.
Can't get enough of Nick! The Perfect.Presentation.Professor!!
Absolutely LOVE all your talks Nick! You're a great lecturer and story-teller. I feel very fortunate to have stumbled onto your series of talks. Thank you
Really a great way to finish a night...
Love this teaser pres. Makes you want to dip into the lectures for each topic.
The animations brought life to the narration. I have an impression that the rushing water would have filled the entire river, and then some.
Love these things! Nick is a hoot!
Hi Mac!
He's BAAAAACK!!!
Out of hibernation!
After the third episode, I suddenly flashed on why the opening/closing background music seems so familiar. The series "Firefly" theme music also featured background violin/fiddle melodies, which evoke an old "Wild West-like" feel to to the surrounding scenes, not unlike this music. I wonder if that was deliberate?
Maybe! I'll ask Chris. He picked that music from many choices.
TF Sheahan...Yep, I also immediately thought of Firefly...!!
So excellent, I really appreciate Nick's work. His students are so lucky
so glad to see you Nick. remarkable program as always. have missed your lectures alot. outstanding job to the whole team.
Hey, Nick! Fantastic work you do,watched hours of your lectures, EXACTLY what I need to see.
J
Just discovered Professor Nick, Im hooked! Thanks for the lessons !!
Dang I do not care how many times I see these or how long ago they were made.. I always am enthralled by Nicks teaching..
Thanks. Went to Cerro Pedernal yesterday. Saw where chert/flint has been mined for ever. The professor sure has a good series.
I miss Eastern Wash ,my home town was Walla Walla..and l miss all Idaho Montana Oregon all those places we used to go.I Love this open Land where can see forever and the most Beautiful Sunset's. Wonderful farm land and The Blue mountains,aw I'm homesick.
These videos are so well done. I am a fan of your lectures, podcasts, and work as a geology communicator.
Thanks for putting this together. You really ought to be doing a proper longer format series for a bigger network that can reach more people!
I can’t believe I caught this the day it was put on youtube! My one tiny criticism is that Chris would not repeat the questions so we could all hear them. Otherwise, simply awesome work!
Thanks for watching, Mark!
Nick is back!! Wonderful!
I love how the information is presented, its easy to lose time listening to you explain everything
I saw much of this when I lived in Spokane & Walla Walla. Now I'm in southern Arizona exploring ancient volcanoes in the Chiricahua and Galuiro Mountains 25 million yrs old.
Thanks CWU. Love the drone footage and knowledge.
I'm from Maine and I went to Seattle for about 2 days but didn't get to see much.
I am glad he is a teacher we need more like him he can make rocks fascinating.
I love this program. Thanks!
Thank You Nick On the Rocks for sharing.
Thanks Nick for the awesome work. I wish we had a geologist like you in Arizona on UA-cam, especially southern Arizona. This area was also flooded by I think Lake Bonneville.
I enjoyed the Nick On The Rocks videos but I'll be glad to see more in depth (sorry for the pun) subjects again.
I wished theses episodes were longer. Really enjoyed this.
Been waiting a long time to see some more of your stuff! Great to see you in action again...
Thanks Phil. Four new Downtown lectures with chalkboard in April 2019.
Really Nice work !!!! So great to have all the drone shots !!!! Awesome !
This video should have 300K likes, great man!
Yeah! I don't remember professors like him! I have watched his lectures, w/ only his blackboard for number of years. Glad he's made videos these days!
Whoa so basically it's the youngest dryas and show the repeat impacts with it frozen in time that freaking cool thanks Nick and team.
These new brief videos are very well done. Can't wait to see them all. You are also a great narrator. Not every expert is.
Amazing work Mr. Nick! I live in Kennewick WA and your videos have been life changing.
So glad to see more videos!
Hope you enjoy!
Great story Dr. Z ! Have ever thought of opening a bar or tavern cafe called Nick on the Rocks, imagine the geo displays that could be shown, models, samples, equipment involved in today's geology... have a drinks on chilled rocks, food served in geoids etc
BEST prof ever... keep up the great work Nick!
Thanks Nick....I am a BIG Fan of Yours....I really enjoy your lectures.....You have made Me a Geography enthusiast.....Thanks again....If I ever get out Your way , I will have to try n catch 1 of Your Lectures...
can Nick on the Rocks do a traveling season? The rest of the Country can use You! Utah by it's self, is a season full of interesting talks! Keep up the good work !
Thanks Tim. But I've got my hands full here in the Pacific Northwest!
He is just one man,lost a wonderful friend,knowing this man I cant see him needing that admiration or the stress and distraction of joining the morons that we call T V..stay away Nick...
It really makes you wonder, about the epic activity that makes the landscapes of this planet. It's qute mind boggling!
Great work as usual. I really appreciate it.
Nick keep on putting out more I learn so much from you.