I am currently in San Francisco attending the AGU Fall meeting. And it is pretty amazing. 11,500 Earth Scientists coming together for a meeting. This is not only utterly overwhelming, but also a good opportunity for me to have a look outside my field and engage in discussions with other scientists. All provided that you are well prepared or you will find yourself staring helplessly into the 540 page program.<\/p>\n
And I was quite well prepared – time on the plane helps \ud83d\ude09 I have already presented my poster and I am very satisfied with the discussions. I have received some good feedback and was encouraged by several people to make measurements that are part of a larger campaign in order to put my data into perspective (… and I am working on that …). I have also participated in an OASIS meeting – a project that would like to be part of, one way or the other (http:\/\/www.oasishome.net\/). There were quite a few sessions on atmosphere-snow interactions and I think that my research fits in well here.<\/p>\n
Apart from research related sessions (I have mostly attended atmospheric, aerosol and cryosphere sessions) I have also attended sessions that deal with communication of scientists with the media and the general public, which I found quite interesting and partly somewhat controversial. Objectivity, translation of scientific results and communicating uncertainties (e.g. in models or measurements) – who should do the translating – scientists or policy advisors, were the core of this discussion. Furthermore, I am pretty busy writing up some stuff, which I didn’t have time for in the past weeks. Lot’s of work, but interesting and fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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