I've been the (name of employer)-side mentor for a student working on her PhD. Yesterday, she successfully defended her PhD thesis. Not sure she wants to be named, so I won't for now. But it's a lot of work to get to where she is, and I'll congratulate her. She knows who she is :-) Good job!
Update:
Jamese Sims successfully defended her thesis at Howard University on Monday. She'll be writing up something about her experiences for the blog one of these days.
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Please see the comment policy for details. And the link policy for details about that. The latter is more open than you might expect.
I expect it to be fun for all, however, as you really can get quite far in understanding the world, even climate, by understanding this sort of fundamental. If I get too much less fundamental, let me know where I went astray.
* Ok, I concede that not many middle school students will get everything. Even a fair number of adults will find some parts hard to follow. Still, some middle school kids will have fun. And almost everyone will follow a number of posts just fine.
Please see the comment policy for details. And the link policy for details about that. The latter is more open than you might expect.
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- Robert Grumbine
- In my day job I work on the oceanography, meteorology, climatology, glaciology end of my science interests, but I'm interested in everything, science or not. So I've also been on stage in a production of Comedy of Errors, run an ultramarathon, and been to Epidaurus, Greece, to see a production of Euripides' Iphigenia among the Taurians Prior to starting the current job, I was a post-doc in oceanography in the UCAR ocean modelling program, and earned my doctorate from the Department of the Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago (1989). My undergraduate degree involved Applied Math, Engineering, Astrophysics, and Glaciology. Of course I don't speak for my employer, whoever that may be.
5 comments:
Congrats! (in case she reads it)
What was it about?
Cheers!
who was attacking it?
She was studying the role of surface heat fluxes in driving hurricane intensity. I was amazed by a couple of the results, but as I learn more it looks to fit in to a pattern that is already developing from others. Yet another part of a story already in progress, which is normal science.
Inferno:
:-)
Or, in case you're serious, it's the examining committee. The end process is that one writes a dissertation, presents it to an audience (in this case, the examining committee plus whoever responded to the public announcement of the defense), and answers questions. Two rounds of questions -- one from all, and then a private session with the examining committee. By the end of it, you certainly feel like you've been playing some serious defense.
Actually, from the name, I always thought the examinee should walk in with a sword or some such. Something more in the vein of the examinations for advancing a belt in martial arts.
Cheers!!!
About 15 years ago I attended a defense at which the candidate did indeed carry a sword, although she didn't walk in with it - her student colleagues presented her with it after she finished. (It was an imitation katana with no real edge to speak of, but it looked impressive, particularly since she was wearing black jeans and motorcycle boots.)
Robert P.
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