Happy late Thanksgiving, all. Hope everyone had a good and safe holiday (the first time I typed that, I wrote "food" rather than "good"... tell you anything about my Thursday?). I didn't get to see my family this year, because I couldn't take the time after being sick last month. Not that I've gotten much schoolwork done, but my apartment is clean, my labmate's cat is fed, and I'm so bored I'll probably be productive tomorrow. Slightly less than 3 weeks until I get to take data on the plane and work from the relatively stress free environment in my parents' house. I. Can't. Wait.
Science-wise: At the conference last month, there were a couple of talks about using passive acoustic monitoring to estimate population densities of marine mammals, especially off the northern coast of Alaska, where it's often very difficult to visually observe whales/walruses/ etc. This article summarizes an attempt to use computer algorithms to do the same thing from bird song, with associated applications to marine mammals. The summary isn't very detailed, and I'll need to read the paper before I can really agree with whether or not it will be useful in my field, but it seems promising.
Saturday, November 28, 2009
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Ooops
Been a while.... shortly after the last post, I took off to go and visit family and friends for the weekend, and went straight from that visit to meeting with a potential collaborator. Well, the morning of the meeting (as Murphy's Law would predict) I was awake at 4 am with the flu. Got through and got through the long drive back okay.
Proceeded to prepare my talk for my department that I was supposed to give that week, until my advisor ordered me to call the Chair, cancel the talk, and go recover. That was a good call - I ended up being knocked on my ass all week. I'm still not entirely caught up with getting back to people after the conference in October.
Bought my ticket home a week or so ago....I can't wait. For some reason this year is simultaneously inching oh-so-slowly towards when I get to see my family again and rocketing through classes and deadlines for grants, etc. Oi. Hopefully I'll be able to do some catching up this coming week, after my in-prep grant proposal goes out the door.
In other news... water on the moon! That's pretty spiffy. :)
Proceeded to prepare my talk for my department that I was supposed to give that week, until my advisor ordered me to call the Chair, cancel the talk, and go recover. That was a good call - I ended up being knocked on my ass all week. I'm still not entirely caught up with getting back to people after the conference in October.
Bought my ticket home a week or so ago....I can't wait. For some reason this year is simultaneously inching oh-so-slowly towards when I get to see my family again and rocketing through classes and deadlines for grants, etc. Oi. Hopefully I'll be able to do some catching up this coming week, after my in-prep grant proposal goes out the door.
In other news... water on the moon! That's pretty spiffy. :)
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