jueves, 31 de enero de 2013

NESSF

Today I finished and submitted a NASA Earth Science Fellowship Grant. I'm not holding my breath, but I feel good about having accomplished the proposal. Thinking critically about research, why it matters and how you can contribute to a larger body of knowledge is... rewarding. I think this is why I decided to come back to school, to do research. To learn and to teach others about that knowledge so that they too can contribute.

Greenland Glacier Calving Event

"The only way that you can really try to put it into scale with human reference is if you imagine Manhattan, and all of a sudden, all of those buildings just start to rumble, and quake, and peel off, fall over, and roll around. This whole massive city just breaking apart in front of your eyes,"