The next leg of the adventure

[rebeccmeister]

So, life in Postdoc-Limbo is going to continue for another year and a half, at least. I just got my official offer letter from UC Berkeley, so I can make the announcement more public. I'm extremely excited to be working with a top-notch evolutionary physiologist there, on a project that will continue from the work I've been doing with these wing-dimorphic crickets. It looks like I'll be moving out there in October.

The thing is, to some extent, California is wasted on me. I'm a Pacific Northwest girl. At least it's not permanent. I am also coming to grips with what it's like to live as a postdoc. I'm still learning new things, which is great, even if the life-in-limbo aspect absolutely SUCKS.

But I should give you something science-themed to ogle, in addition to this announcement.

Here's a snapshot of what I've been working on, recently:


I've written out a more detailed description of the current research within this photo album - click through to see that and several other photos.

Edit: This photo sends you to my photostream, not the album, arg. The album is here, with my most recent work featured towards the very end.

Comments

[rebeccmeister.livejournal.com]

Well!

I learned to row at Pocock, right when it opened (almost 20 years ago!), and in that era, I don't think we had any *requirements* for winter rowing, other than nautical and traffic pattern requirements, and specific lighting for rowing after dark. So I suspect this has come about as a result of incidents that have happened over the years, plus improved availability of a lot of safety gear, plus liability fears. I think they've established pretty good safety standards for when small boats can or cannot go out on the water.

Regarding technical fabrics, though - as someone who has spent a lot of time on PNW waterways, I can tell you that wool is still supreme. The high-vis stuff for rowing falls into the same category as the high-vis stuff for cycling. Maybe helpful, but not a substitute for being aware of one's surroundings, especially when the sun is in blinding positions.

[ivy]

Heh, yeah, we didn't have lights, wool, technical fabric, or high vis anything. (We were also rowing on a not very busy small river that fed into the Chesapeake. Most days we were the only moving vessels on it... there were anchored or docked sailboats, but at 6 AM they weren't going anywhere.) We showed up in Spandex and cotton (I would not discover technical fabrics for another 15 years or so) and sneakers. We had windbreakers for an outer layer and to look like we had something that matched when we raced, and by my junior year we'd all pitched in so we had matching tank tops as well. I described this to maramaye and she was *completely horrified*, heh.