#introduction
Hello everyone! I’m a PhD student studying atmospheric physics; Arctic snow, at the moment, to be more specific. Most of my work is of the computational/data analysis variety, though I’m working both with data from remote sensing observations and from models. I spend much of my time wrangling large datasets with Python, but thankfully, I enjoy doing it (most of the time)!
Fun fact: bird guano reflects light uniquely enough (compared to other things on the ground such as rocks) that it can be detected from space! This can help with locating and keeping track of seabird colonies, which can otherwise be challenging to do, especially in locations such as the Antarctic coast that are hard to get to.
Here's a link to a paper on this for reference: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0034425714004192
(To be clear I don’t use text to speech all the time; I mostly use it when I’m having a particularly bad ADHD day or when I need to proofread something.)
Really wish there were an easy way to get text-to-speech to not read parenthetical citations. Contemplated throwing something together myself (extract text from pdf, get rid of things formatted as citations using regex, then pipe to text to speech or something) but didn’t feel like expending the effort.
Though these days I mostly read papers on my tablet, and when I’m using text to speech I use the setting where I select the text I want it to read, so I just avoid selecting citations.
I know weather is an inconvenience to a lot of people but I still enjoy seeing it sometimes.
Another is the TA whom I told that I would need to hand an assignment in late, and he said “I haven’t checked the assignment dropbox yet, so if you drop it off before the end of the day, I won’t mark deduct any marks for lateness.”
By shell mass, the modern giant clams are the largest bivalves that have ever lived. But by area, the largest ever clam was the Cretaceous Platyceramus platinus. Some specimens reached 9 ft (2.7 m) in size! The one in the pic was about 3 ft wide! They evolved their thin broad shells to "raft" on soft bottoms, and may have harbored symbiotic microbes to provide their food. Their family, the inoceramids, is one of my favorites but sadly went extinct with the dinosaurs. #clamfacts
Friends, nemeses, and everyone in between -
Summer/Winter School will be closing our submission for presenters soon!
If you have been on the fence about, now is the time.
We close July 1st
Turns out the broadly quoted human wet bulb thermal maximum of 35C was an overestimate. A new study determined in young healthy people, it's more like 31C. Not like we're going to put this data to the real world test or anything! *laughs nervously, sweats ineffectively* https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/humans-cant-endure-temperatures-and-humidities-high-previously-thought/
Pronouns: he/him or they/them
PhD student in computational atmospheric physics
Also a teaching assistant!
Research interests: Arctic snow, sea ice, climate, remote sensing