mánudagur, desember 22, 2008
sunnudagur, desember 21, 2008
föstudagur, desember 12, 2008
fimmtudagur, desember 11, 2008
Conference call
I'm going to a BIG conference on Sunday, all the way over in San Francisco. That's one of my favorite cities, so I'm duly excited.
More importantly, though, I'm all excited about my poster presentation. As always I'm preparing the poster pretty much last minute and it's so exciting!! I'm presenting the data from Philippine streams I acquired in Boston earlier this fall and as I am writing this, the first Sr isotope value is coming in on the TIMS. I hope to have at least 8 of those before printing the poster and heading for the airport. Those will be the first river water Sr isotope values to come out of the Philippines for over 20 years, that's longer than my sister Lara has existed!!! All this is rendered even more exciting by the fact that a big name in my field just wrapped up her own fieldwork in the Philippines and given how fast she works (she must have an army of gnomes working for her...) I'll need to really push hard to get my stuff published before she publishes hers! Maybe that's why I've been putting in 10 to 12-hour days recently.
Another impetus to get work done is my fellow student Jacob. He and I both started our PhD's in fall 2003 and he is defending today. Starting in about 10 minutes. That leaves Louise and I as the two ABD (all but dissertation) from our PhD-cohort of five. One threw in the towel after getting a masters, one defended about a year ago and today it's Jacob's turn. Gotta go see it now!
More importantly, though, I'm all excited about my poster presentation. As always I'm preparing the poster pretty much last minute and it's so exciting!! I'm presenting the data from Philippine streams I acquired in Boston earlier this fall and as I am writing this, the first Sr isotope value is coming in on the TIMS. I hope to have at least 8 of those before printing the poster and heading for the airport. Those will be the first river water Sr isotope values to come out of the Philippines for over 20 years, that's longer than my sister Lara has existed!!! All this is rendered even more exciting by the fact that a big name in my field just wrapped up her own fieldwork in the Philippines and given how fast she works (she must have an army of gnomes working for her...) I'll need to really push hard to get my stuff published before she publishes hers! Maybe that's why I've been putting in 10 to 12-hour days recently.
Another impetus to get work done is my fellow student Jacob. He and I both started our PhD's in fall 2003 and he is defending today. Starting in about 10 minutes. That leaves Louise and I as the two ABD (all but dissertation) from our PhD-cohort of five. One threw in the towel after getting a masters, one defended about a year ago and today it's Jacob's turn. Gotta go see it now!
þriðjudagur, desember 02, 2008
Kreppa, here I come!
Update: I got that award ticket!! Am flying home to Iceland on the 23rd, arriving in Iceland early on aðfangadagur, the 24th. The earliest available flight back is on the 8th, so that's when I'm going back. Luvely, I have to say.
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