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Day 51: In Which There is a Conference
It’s another rainy day in our nation’s capitol. What a lovely day to go to a Polar Law Symposium (yesterday) or the Arctic Circle Conference (today, tomorrow, and Saturday, because all sensible conferences run Thursday-Sunday, right?). The Polar Law Symposium was surprisingly fun, for all that I really don’t have enough international law background to…
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Day 44: In Which There is Another Maritime Museum
But first, the weather. It’s been raining heavily for the last few days (like, 16mm or 0.63inches per Day. For two and a half days), and also getting slightly colder. When I got out of the house this morning, I noticed that there was snow in the mountains again: In the staggering amount of rain,…
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Day 37: In Which There is a Fieldtrip (of a kind)
So this class is Coastal Zone Management, where we think how to chunk up space efficiently for management and how to talk to people about ecology without resorting to shrieking or beating people with sticks. (perhaps I don’t have the right temperament for government. I just want to grab people by the lapels and shake…
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Day 33: In Which Alice Makes Some Cider
So yesterday was cold, rainy, blowing like snot, and I’ve been low-key pining for apple cider since last fall, so I went out into the weather and bought some apples. Turns out cider is very boring to make – throw apples and tiny chunk of orange in pot covered in water, with misc spices, simmer…
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Day 30: In Which holy shit it’s been a month
I’m very good at the linear progression of time, really, truly. Happy Equinox! We did a very haphazard poster session this morning. Everybody had put their data from their 5ish fish they each dissected about a week and a half ago in a spreadsheet so we all had a reasonable sample set to work with,…
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Day 23: In Which There Are Whales
so technically the whales were on Wednesday, and this post was supposed to go up yesterday (I was working on a project this week backwriting an abstract given a paper we read, hence the delay), but due to mysterious technical issues, I guess it’s going up today. Our professor for Marine Ecology is a whale…
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Day 17: In Which the First True Night Occurs
This one is mostly going to be astronomy and graphs. I’m not at such a latitude (or such a time of year) that the sun hasn’t been setting; the sun has dipped below the horizon once every 24 hours I’ve been here, but there’s a wrinkle in how ‘night’ is defined, in part because there…
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iron in the ocean
email excerpt: I can only relay one of the coolest things that happened in class on Wednesday: there are chunks of the ocean that have roughly the right proportion of the major nutrients for life except for iron, and there’s a theory that as there used to be many more whales, the whales used to…
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Day 10: In Which There is a Stupid Amount of Wind
(this is a couple days post hoc, but I had to write a paper about soil erosion and sheep farming in the meantime) I went to bed kinda late on Thursday, and as I was walking from the main hotel (the only bit with wifi) to the separate buildings that had our rooms in them,…
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Day 9: In Which There Is a Great Deal of Water
Rabbit Rabbit! I’m in a slightly different middle of nowhere part of the Westfjords today. We had a field trip to get tours of two businesses that we have been talking about for the last couples days in class; a sustainable fish farming place and misc diving and fish farming support place. But first we…
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