Formerly an enthusiastic and hopeful biological oceanographer who worked in the Antarctic, alternately wearing labcoats or extreme weather clothing and hard hats. Has long since swapped survival suits for dress suits and does science management for a living.
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Category Archives: International collaboration
Casual conversations
Last Thursday, I came across a casual conversation in my facebook “news” feed. I’ll call the two participants A and B. It all started with A posting a link about a rather large number of people “fleeing Rome” last Wednesday … Continue reading
Posted in exciting science, International collaboration
Tagged conversations, discoveries, stars
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Planes, trains and meeting rooms
I find myself traveling quite a bit again these days. I used to travel a lot for meetings to discuss and plan research cruises when I worked for the USAP, then not so much during my rather brief stint in … Continue reading
Posted in International collaboration, Silliness
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News from the tower of Babel
This morning, I had a news release from the US National Science Foundation in my inbox: a new ice coring record was set in Greenland this season. That is good news in itself, since it will give climate researchers a … Continue reading
Wait – fire up the neurons first!
Hold on a minute with that laser! This new job comes with an incredible amount of information that needs to be absorbed/internalized/processed: 14 countries are involved, plus the German Electron Synchrotron DESY. To complicate things, the contributions by the different … Continue reading
Posted in career, International collaboration
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Fire up the laser!
So tomorrow is the day – my first day at the European XFEL. There is much to do until the facility is ready for science in 2014 – first, there are contracts to sign by a number of different countries, … Continue reading
Let’s do this together
One of the things about polar research – in the Arctic and the Antarctic – I’ve always found interesting and just plain cool is that it’s pretty international. These environments are remote and harsh enough, and operations and logistics are … Continue reading
Sometimes, really big is just big enough
There’s a new, big building site in my hometown of Hamburg, Germany: the European X-ray Free-Electron Laser, or European XFEL, a mega science facility funded by 16 European countries to be commissioned in 2014. Actually, it’s three building sites, two … Continue reading
