After five months here, it feels as though we are finally finding our feet. My job is starting to feel like mine, not something that I am pretending to do until someone catches me out (classic imposter syndrome). Our apartment seems more like home that is has before. And we are even making friends! InContinue reading “The week we were hop ons”
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The week of La Diada de Sant Jordi
For most of this week I have felt like Harry Potter, in the last movie when he is asked about the Tale of the Three Brothers. “You know, the tale of Sant Jordi?”, people say expectedly. “Ummm…” The tale, told to me several times in the past week, goes that once upon a time, aContinue reading “The week of La Diada de Sant Jordi”
The week of our first journal club
With apologies to Tyler Durden… The research group at C3 is a small but dedicated bunch. There are only 15 of us, working in a range of fields from climate model downscaling to data homogenisation, from temperature extremes to model downscaling. The majority are women (including our director), and we are a mixture of localContinue reading “The week of our first journal club”
The week of the three towers
How good is spring?! The days are lengthening, the sun is shining and the flowers are blooming. Tortosa feels alive, like a new town. After a two winters in a row, we are really appreciating all of this, and the promise of warmer days ahead. Yesterday we got out and enjoyed the sunshine by ridingContinue reading “The week of the three towers”
The week I figured out the wattles
We’ve just returned from a frolic around Malta, Sicily and Rome, catching up with some dear friends, learning more about the amazing history of the Mediterranean, and eating our body weight in pizza/pasta/chocolate-filled croissants. There were so many things to do and see and smell, but one particular feature kept catching my eye… The wattles!Continue reading “The week I figured out the wattles”
Extending the temperature record of southeastern Australia
This is a guest post that I was kindly invited to write for climanrecon.wordpress.com. Climanrecon is currently looking at the non-climatic features of the Bureau of Meteorology’s raw historical temperature observations, which are freely available online. As Neville Nicholls recently discussed in The Conversation, the more the merrier! Southeastern Australia is the most highly populatedContinue reading “Extending the temperature record of southeastern Australia”
The week of my first lecture
This week I filled in for a professor and gave my first ever lecture as a professional scientist to undergraduate students. Two hours of talking at second-year geography students about the climate of Australia. I now officially feel like an academic! Although I get nervous (who doesn’t), I usually like giving public presentations. After some training inContinue reading “The week of my first lecture”
The week of English
Maybe it was because of St Patrick’s Day, but this past week has had a tinge of the UK about it. Not only did a bar down the road start serving Guinness for the first time (you just can’t escape those ludicrous hats!), but a couple of events this week have reminded me of theContinue reading “The week of English”
The week of #CLIMATEES2015
This week around 100 climate scientists, meteorologists, oceanographers and modellers descended on Tortosa for CLIMATE-ES 2015, an International Symposium (capslock intended) about climate change research across the Iberian Peninsula.
The week we tried to learn Spanish
‘What?’ I hear you say! ‘Haven’t you been living in Spain for three months now? Haven’t you been trying to learn Spanish for, I don’t know, the whole time?!’ The truth is, it’s actually been quite hard to for us to find a structured way to learn Castellano. The main reason for this is that,Continue reading “The week we tried to learn Spanish”
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