cool stuff

I am at this moment sitting in a small cabin at a camp ground in Moab, UT. I am here with the kids and my parents while Missy is in Ireland...miss you honey...
This cool camp ground have an excellent wireless connection :)
I am working on my four presentations for the SCAR meeting. I should be getting a temporary permit to travel. What a hazzle to get that. Anyway...we went on a Hummer Safari today. It was soooo COOL..I want a hummer!!!!
Also, I checked google earth...it was cool too...so my old houses and when I saw the old place in Avon, I could see the dog kennel and the race track I made out back. So I guess they are not using up-to-date images :) It was cool though and I will post some of the pics soon. Also got a few pics from Deepak from our CEDAR meeting. Here is a picture of the winning poster and its presenter :)

KVANT arcticle

I got some KVANT magazines today from Cramer. KVANT is a danish physics journal for reserachers and students. I wrote an article about our Stardust mission. It was quite fun and I realized how diffecult it was to write science in danish when you haven't done it for years.

What a week! Hockey and poster award

I am back from one week in Santa Fe, New Mexico, where I attended the CEDAR workshop. The week started out with the Carolina Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup in game seven. It was one of the absolute best hockey games I have ever watched. High tempo, lot of battles for the puck and countless clean hits. Then I gave a talk in the AMISR workshop about the AIM satellite and how AMISR can contribute with science in coordination with AIM. Thursday I presented my poster on propagation nature of gravity waves over Antarctica. It went really well and I had some great discussions. In the end, I won the poster competition. Lot of prestige, but even better, I got the gravity wave bible! Colin Hines collection of papers in "The upper atmospher in motion". The book is from 1974 and can not be bought anywhere.

MaCWAVE paper and dissertation

I got the MaCWAVE paper back for proof-reading. It is a monster paper...17 pages. But it is a pretty cool paper with some good information. Matt pointed out that in dissertation format it would equal about 57 pages and could in principle be a dissertation on its own. Well, it will be one chapter of my dissertation. Another chapter will be my bore paper and those two together will constitute the case studies. I am currently writing two other papers and have a third to write when those two are done. The three papers will be my "major" part of the dissertation and will describe climatology, characteristics, and propagation nature of Antarctic gravity waves. I am excited to see the end :)