Some more leftover photos.

Random photos

Getting back into daily life so some random photos from the break.

The Science Comedian-Brian Malow

This last December I was lucky enough to go to a workshop put on by the AGU and meet with Brian Malow, the Science Comedian. He was hilarious and if you haven't heard of him, check out his website!

Random photos from the flight

After the holidays, I'm trying to get motivated to get back to work. I think I need a vacation from the vacation.

Final Days in Winter Park

So only a few days left in the vacation and I have mixed feelings about that. It will be nice to be back home and alone, I've been visiting people for the last month (quiet literally). But it does mean that I will have to return to focusing on finishing the thesis (which should have been done about 9 months ago if not sooner). It also means leaving Beautiful Colorado and the Rockies, but going back to wonderful Boston. I might not be able to see a moose in Boston, but there is an albino skunk that likes to go through the back yard of our apartment building. I hope that you all have had a great Holiday Season and will have a wonderful new year. 

Happy NewYears Eve

Happy New Years! So these fireworks were from Christmas Eve, but hopefully there will be another wonderful show tonight. I hope this year was a good one for you, and may the next be even better. 

Winter Park at Christmas

This Christmas we got to stay up in the mountains in Fraser CO. Christmas day was spent snowshoeing and we happened upon a moose and it's kid. It was beautiful even if the snow was a bit slushy. 

Some more from the flight

Since both my flights were relatively short, I got some great photos as we didn't have to travel too high. The first photo was on the way from Dallas to San Francisco. The second photo was traveling from LA to Denver. Sunset is always beautiful from above the clouds. The third photo was from San Francisco to LA. It's always amazing to me how much and how easily it is to see the impact of humans on the landscape.

Flying

When ever I fly, I always end up looking at all the geographic features and trying to get some photos from out of the plane's windows.

The last from this trip to San Fran.

Most of these are from nightlife, but then I had to throw in a view from my hotel window. It's such a great skyline. 

Some more from San Fran

There really were way too many fun things to do in San Fran. I need to come back and visit when I'm not at a conference.

At the conference centre there is a great merry-go-round.  Some day I'm actually going to go and see it during the day... 

Oakland hills had some great little hikes and a beautiful botanical garden. Someday I'm going to go back and actually have time to enjoy the walk through instead of jogging most of my way through it. 

Some notes from my time in San Fran

While I was in San Francisco I got to go to the best thing in the world. Nightlife at the California Academy of Sciences. It was all I could have ever hoped for as a kid, and everything I wanted as an adult. The museum was turned into a club for all intents and purposes where you could get all these amazing cocktails and then go see an I-max movie. Here are just a few of the things I got to see 

Here is Claude an albino alligator. Apparently he doesn't normally move, so the fact that we got to see him swim all of 6 feet was pretty impressive.

A bit more fast pace were the sting rays and sharks. Always a lot of fun to watch, but they never seem to want to stay still enough for a photo...

This alligator gar was my favourite, mostly because I had just watched River Monsters where they fished for a whole bunch of them.

AGU Conference in San Fran

Every year I try to go to the AGU conference in San Fran and every year I seem to miss out on taking photo of everything that I would want to... That being said, this year I think I got a few keepers. Let me know what you think. All three of them have the golden gate bridge. The first is from the bay model, the second, well that's obvious, and the third is a painting in a great pizzeria that we went to.

Getting ready for AGU

In about a weeks time I'm going to San Fran (hopefully I'll get some good pics). There is a huge conference for Earth-Space science going on. Today I finally finally finally got some new and interesting results, or at least I hope they are interesting. I really hate coding, especially in a new code (just starting to learn python). Anyway I need a coding break, so I thought I'd put up a few more pics from this fall. I hope you enjoy!

I think once I get this code working and the plots all out, I might have to take a trip to The Thirsty Scholar, because I'll be one scholar in need of a drink. 

I think this is Harvard... but I can't remember

Okay I know it is, but since I haven't been able to walk through Harvard Yard in a while I thought I might post some photos to remember what it is that we're not being allowed to see.