Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Last week was very busy for us here. I volunteered to help out one of the people at the University who was in charge of organizing and putting on the NSA conference and the Benthic Ecology Meeting which were held back to back in Providence. Ostensibly I was supposed to be there primarily for IT [...]
It looks like both Dad and I have some new digital real estate.
My father is a professional photographer and now has a web site to show some of his works. I love his bear series of photographs and hope you will too. The cool thing is that he is also providing some facts and conservation [...]
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I discovered that Johann loves solving code puzzles as much as I do, so I’ve been using that to make repeating the multiplication tables and studying spelling words more interesting. I did several puzzles using addition problems to provide the numbers in the legend, which, when used, could translate the spelling words. When he expressed [...]
Monday, February 18, 2008
Ok…if you want to find out what a Caprellid is without the family spin skip to the bottom.
One of the family’s big presents this year was a nice zoom dissecting microscope with a set of 50 metazoan and 50 plant biology classroom slides. Johann and Tammy have been going through a few prepared slides per [...]
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Also tagged amphipod, crustacean, Mystic, photo, Science, Shanti-School, UCONN, Wildlife
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The Alvin on deployment — one of the submersibles used on the Sea Mounts along with the Hercules and Argustandem ROV system.Image from mpi-bremen.de
From Deep Sea News comes a post that is right on time for me. Deep Sea News is a science blog run by a Post-Doc from MBARI, a research assistant from [...]
Chapter 3 of Johann’s Physics book covers the basic concepts of potential and kinetic energy. The teacher’s manual gives examples to get kids thinking about kinetic energy (the energy of motion) in a way they can relate to: a fast moving car, a basketball sitting still on the floor, a fast moving toddler versus a [...]
Since Johann is officially in second grade, we have been practicing penmanship. He’s been asking me to teach him cursive, but first he needs to refine his printing. One thing everyone needs to learn is not to put the letters that hang down above the line. I’ve told Johann many times to let the tails [...]
Saturday, October 13, 2007
One of the classes for this semester is a one credit class that will end with me being approved for and certified as an AAUS diver. I’m fortunate that the instructor is a very accomplished diver and the incoming president of the AAUS. While it’s only a one credit class, it has been in many [...]
Sunday, September 23, 2007
When I began commuting by bike this summer it had little impact on my schedule. I had to leave earlier to get to work, but since my work hours are very flexible even that was of minor consequence.
Now that school has started and has been going for almost a month things are a bit, shall [...]
