Did you see this item ? Well, I've been quite excited and have been spending an hour or so per day squinting at amateur telescopic images of Mars. "That's the dust cloud? Well, that or this thing over here." Tomorrow, one of my colleagues promises me we'll try to find it from observations taken a little closer to the planet. Nor is this idle curiosity. For the first time in my life, the development of a significant weather system is not a distraction from my real work but relevant to my real work. My officemate and I are trying to develop something that might be described as [ redacted ], and the first test is scheduled late in the week.
If I'm not cruising Martian weather sites (very few exist at this point), I'm usually writing. My goal is to submit three papers this summer. I still have a way to go to being a clear scientific writer, no matter what one of my advisors might say. So every once in a while, one of my senior colleagues comes by and says, "I really didn't understand this..." and I turn into a blithering idiot. Sweat more in local peer review, bleed less in actual peer review. Well, that's what Sun Tzu would say if he were a scholar.
And if I'm not writing, I am trying to get a climate model to do my fiendish bidding. It just blew up again. Oh well. Back to work.
4 comments:
Sounds interesting.
Me, I'm cruising more sci-fi than sci...Alistair Reynolds just came out with another book. Good stuff.
Smart to have others review before sending off. Smart scholars do just that.
Out of curiosity, what happens when a climate model blows up?
*Christopher-- I just read his first novel this week. I guess our tastes are similar.
bls--Mainly, it just produces computer errors. I haven't yet really tried to blow a computer model up. "NaN" is the bane of my existence.
Oh, "NaN." Everybody's least favorite announcement.....
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