live in Switzerland now
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 16th, 2008
‘um, so i didn’t put that there, did you put that there?’; ‘no, i didn’t put that there, what is that doing there?’; ‘um, i dont know, maybe it climbed up there slit open its belly and broke one of its legs on accident?’; ‘hmm, yah well i guess thats probably it’; ‘so what do [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 14th, 2008
Jan and I were recently back in the old west for a family visit. We saw our folks and siblings, toured new houses and searched for new houses, attended a fun wedding in Tahoe, and ate lots of great food. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures. Here are some pics of us with Ryan and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Sep 12th, 2008
At the end of August I attended three days of a much longer field trip with people from different universities in Austria and Germany. I went to the Turtmental, the Mattertal, and the Saastal; three great valleys of the Vallais. In the Turtmental we looked at permafrost and rock glaciers and talked about geophysics, in [...]