Teaching Assistant Award

I received the Gene Adams Endowed Scholarship Award for Outstanding Graduate Student TA today. Quite a surprise since I just went to support our undergraduate students and get some free sandwich's. But I'll take it any time :) With it came a check for $350. Pretty good :)

Daddy's little helper

Sharks even the series

Nice weekend. It has been sunny and dry. Got the lawn mower up running and mowed the the lawnn, raked leafs and cleaned up a little. Have also played more with the dogs...they are having such a good time and Soren likes being out with them.

The sharks even the series against the predators and are now heading back to the shark tank for 2 games. Hopefully they will sweep the predators.

Second bore paper published

Allright! Bob's first bore paper (and the second bore paper) was published today in Geophysical Research Letter. The two papers might appear in the same issue after all (both are published on-line, but the hard-copy issue is not out yet). The citation is

Stockwell, R. G., M. J. Taylor, K. Nielsen, and M. J. Jarvis (2006), A novel joint space-wavenumber analysis of an unusual Antarctic gravity wave event, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L08805, doi:10.1029/2005GL025660.

Life is good

I passed my candidacy exam and had alot of great comments from the faculty members. It is nice to have that hurdle out of the way. The presentation lasted ~43 minutes...perfect timing (should be between 40-45 min). Then it was followed by 30 min question time by the faculty.

And to top it off...HOCKEY PLAY-OFF starts this weekend. GO SHARKS or DUCKS. Thornton has been impressive this season.

Poor Bert

Poor Bert. I gave the dogs some bones the other night for treats. When I came home yesterday Melissa came running out and said that Bert had something stucked in his mouth. He had tried to get it off with his paws and had scraped his muzzle so much that it bled. It was also swollen pretty good. I looked inside his mouth and he had a huge piece of bone stucked in the upper mouth, which prevented him from eating, drinking, and even swallowing. But he is such a good boy. He let me stick my hands in a mess around with it. Not many dogs would let you do that. I was afraid to grab it too hard in case I would tear something in his mouth, so we took him to the wet. She just used a screwdriver to drive it out. Boy, was he happy. When we came home he had a bucket of water and some food.

GRL Bore paper highlighted

GRL editors have selected my bore paper as an AGU Journal Highlight. Guess it paid off to not rush it out. We spent a long time writing it and thinking about what we exactly wanted in this paper (after all, there will be a total of 4-5 papers on this event in the end). We were happy about the result when we submitted it. The referees came back with very little comments and it was published very fast after the submission. Hopefully the highlight can spark some interest in the paper and our research.

Added link

Finally it made sense to add the page of my publications. Since I now officially have a paper published. There are a few more paper either accepted or under review. I also added those papers. I hope to be able to add a few more papers soon. I am hoping to submit a NLC paper in the end of April and Bob is getting ready to submit another bore paper to JGR.

More papers are under way, but they will need some more work. There is possibly another NLC paper which Rich is writing where he use radar wind data for the NLC events we saw. I need to write a GRL paper regarding gravity wave motion/climatology over Halley and another comparison paper with Rothera. Then my major paper will be the propagation nature of these waves. I am currently working on those results. When these papers are done I will hopefully also be done since they will constitute my dissertation. After that we might do a comparison with all the bores we have seen at high latitude. It would be a nice paper to compare to Fechine's paper regarding the same subject just at equatorial latitudes.

Bore paper published

The bore paper was published today, April 5, 2006 in GRL. Its citation is

Nielsen, K., M. J. Taylor, R. G. Stockwell, and M. J. Jarvis (2006), An unusual mesospheric bore event observed at high latitudes over Antarctica, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L07803, doi:10.1029/2005GL025649.