The fourth time's the charm
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notmattYay. I finally heard back from Icarus, and they will publish my Mars Polar Wander paper. Well, pending some revisions the reveiwers asked for, but it doesn't look like anything I can't handle. Having read the reviews I now understand why I had so much trouble before. I really needed to explain things a lot more than I had. The original paper was necessarily short in order to be an acceptable length for Nature, but it seems it's very easy for people to draw wrong conclusions and misinterpret what I was saying. Most of the comments I received were requests for elaboration on various topics.
I'm in Rohnert Park right now at the Early Planetary Differentiation workshop before AGU. It's been mostly good. The community here is split between geochemists and geophysicist (with the occasional "other" thrown in). My colleagues and I have been understanding all the physics-based talks and almost nothing about the chemistry-related ones. There have been a few good chem talks, but I'm sick of isotope fractionation at this point. I imagine the geochemists feel the same way about the dyanamical talks. I've noticed the physicists are much better at sticking to their allotted time than the chemists.
My boss wins Stephen Colbert's Big Brass Balls award. After his talk, the questions devolved into an argument between geochemists about the interpretation of the Hf-W fractionation, and eventually he said "I'm sure this is all very interesting . . . to geochemists." to a room full of them.
Hal Levison and Kevin Zahnle are each a riot by themselves. Get them together for even more fun.
I observed that the handicapped stall in the Men's room at the conference center is bigger than my office.
Went to a nice Malaysian restaurant in Santa Rosa for dinner today. It was (to me) indistinguishable from Indian cuisine. Found out that other planetary scientists read "Cook's Illustrated" as well.
Should probably sleep now. Decided not to get up in time for the first few talks tomorrow; more isotope stuff. I'll save my brain for the more interesting stuff later on. Off to AGU in San Francisco tomorrow. Don't know how I'll survive that; my brain is already full.
I'm in Rohnert Park right now at the Early Planetary Differentiation workshop before AGU. It's been mostly good. The community here is split between geochemists and geophysicist (with the occasional "other" thrown in). My colleagues and I have been understanding all the physics-based talks and almost nothing about the chemistry-related ones. There have been a few good chem talks, but I'm sick of isotope fractionation at this point. I imagine the geochemists feel the same way about the dyanamical talks. I've noticed the physicists are much better at sticking to their allotted time than the chemists.
My boss wins Stephen Colbert's Big Brass Balls award. After his talk, the questions devolved into an argument between geochemists about the interpretation of the Hf-W fractionation, and eventually he said "I'm sure this is all very interesting . . . to geochemists." to a room full of them.
Hal Levison and Kevin Zahnle are each a riot by themselves. Get them together for even more fun.
I observed that the handicapped stall in the Men's room at the conference center is bigger than my office.
Went to a nice Malaysian restaurant in Santa Rosa for dinner today. It was (to me) indistinguishable from Indian cuisine. Found out that other planetary scientists read "Cook's Illustrated" as well.
Should probably sleep now. Decided not to get up in time for the first few talks tomorrow; more isotope stuff. I'll save my brain for the more interesting stuff later on. Off to AGU in San Francisco tomorrow. Don't know how I'll survive that; my brain is already full.
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Date: 2006-12-10 12:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-10 02:21 pm (UTC)I totally understand what you're saying about isotope fractionation getting a bit tedious. I'm working on a paper on early life and the Snowball Earth hypothesis, so an awful lot of the evidence is in the form of isotope fractionation. It really seems like geochemistry is where a lot of stuff is headed these days. Heard a really cool talk a couple months ago about using oxygen fractionation to determine paleoaltitude.
Your boss sounds awesome.
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Date: 2006-12-10 05:10 pm (UTC)