Initial review of the AGU conference: awesome. Brain is happy from the learndrophins. More on that Sunday, after I catch up on sleep. The BART ticket machines’ user interface must have intentionally been poorly-designed. Buying a ticket went like this: Look up fare on the list posted to the right of the machine. Put credit […]
He doesn’t bite. The first bloc of today’s presentations were about carbon capture and sequestration. Fascinating stuff. The first presenter, from the Carbon Mitigation Initiative, presented a “stabilization triangle” model. Carbon emissions in 2004 were estimated to be 7 gigatons/year. On the current path, it’s expected to be 14 Gt/y by 2055. Stabilizing output would
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I sat in on only 11 sessions today, down from 24 yesterday and 21 on Monday. (The coolest thing was seeing work on modeling turbidity flow in Monterey Canyon. Mentioned in another session as an example of how boiling water can instantly freeze was this video.) Indeed, most of the day was spent wandering
The high-level observations for today: “Invited” speakers tend to be better than those that are… not invited. I do not have enough data on quality of uninvited talks, but I see an opportunity for a great practical joke. If the invited speaker isn’t working, you can either wait it out or go to the alternate
Love is like Nitrogen Read More »
As soon as I exited BART at the Powell Street stop, I remembered what else San Francisco is famous for: aggressive panhandling. In the two blocks to my hotel, I was hit up eight times. The hotel’s close, but my room is five floors above the edge of the street. All night I can hear
Let’s get geophysical Read More »
The AGU fall conference I’m attending this week has, like, a million posters and talks… enough to keep me busy all week. I’m certain that after sitting in on presentations with weighty titles like “Radiative Forcing of Anthropogenic Coffee” or “Observing Rumor Kinetics in a Temperate Office Ecosystem” or “Magneto-tantric Fluxes in Product Requirements,” I
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For those of you who’ve asked, we have had the gamut of weather: snow, heavy rain showers, sleet, clear, windy… and a huge serving of Pineapple Express. Some of the roads to work (Newport Way, 148th Ave, Coal Creek) were closed from flooding or mudslides, but it was far worse to the southwest where Interstate
Like John and Claire, I rode today to coax myself out of the holiday doldrums. The trip home was Seattle winter crud: 39°F, heavy rain, dark, and windy. I was soaked, but thanks to the wool underlayer, I stayed warm as long as I kept moving. Fortunately I have a lot of hill climbing on