Resources to improve your writing. Click the title for their Amazon.com link.

Simple rules for concise scientific writing - Hotaling 2020

free field data app

YouTube channel of introductory videos
application for field data acquisition and storage. record sample locations, georeferenced photos, strike/dip and paleoflow measurements, and draw geologic contacts and faults on basemap imagery.

extract data from figures and pdfS

need to extract data from an old paper that doesn’t provide supplementary information? This free web-based software helps you extract data from ternary plots, histograms, rose diagrams and more. Several tutorial videos walk you through how to use this very intuitive program.

More resources:

Generate Color schemes for color-blind safe figures - includes color codes and downloadable templates for Adobe Illustrator and other programs

Exporting basemap layers from ArcGIS to Adobe Illustrator - video tutorials by @RiverscapesC

MatLab code for plotting and data reduction for single mineral geochronologic data - software by Kurt Sundell and collaborators