Prioritizing goes hand in hand with efficiency and productivity whether it’s extreme (like triage) or the mundane (like paying bills), but how often do we actually stop and think about the process? While at the bar yesterday my friend asked me a question about how I deal with my data. In particular the question was […]
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Daily Dose: Correlations in a Warmer Ocean
A recent project, which is still in the very early stages, is looking for changes in patterns in the surface ocean due to el Nino. El Nino is a decadal mode of variability in the atmospheric forcings on the Pacific Ocean leading to anomalously warmer ocean temperatures throughout the eastern Pacific. This water, like a […]
Daily Dose: Unity in Science
Although all around us, there are few things as universally spectacular as natural phenomena. Whether it is a volcano, the changing of the leaves or, most recently, a solar eclipse; people love spectacles and nature sure can be spectacular at times. So why is this called “Unity in Science” and not “Unity in Nature”? Well, […]
Daily Dose: Installing solar panels
With the cost of solar panels coming down and with the rise in energy consciousness, I thought it might be time to try out solar panels myself. Just starting out, it seemed to be prudent to get a small, trial size panel kit to see how it works. I opted for a simple 100W monocrystalline […]
Daily Dose: Radiation Trouble
Update: See update section following the article for the latest. I recently described in general terms a new method that I’m developing which uses Yttrium to estimate the carbon export from the ocean’s photic zone, so today I saw it fitting to rant about an issue I’m currently facing. Assuming that you have either read […]
Introducing the Daily Dose
Over the course of a day, my overactive mind shuffles around to a surprising variety of topics and articles, and most of these finds are lost to the wayside simply because I have nowhere to put them. The Daily Dose is my solution for this. By providing a dedicated stream and forum for these otherwise […]