Day 81 - Flights & Seminar

I finally bought all of my plane tickets for my grand finale trip on 25-30 October. London to Oslo (Norway) on the 25th. Oslo to Frankfurt (Germany) on the 26th. Frankfurt to Reus (near Barcelona, Spain) on the 27th. Szczecia (Poland) to London on the 30th. I'm not entirely sure which train routes I'm gonna take to get from Spain to Poland, but at the moment I'm planning to go through Geneva, Bern, Zurich, Munich (maybe), Stuttgart, Hamburg, and Berlin. I might try to find a way to go through Liechtenstein and Austria as well, which would make this a 9 country trip. But I'll probably have to settle for 7 (5 being new to me).

As for smaller trips, I'm planning to go to Belper & the Nottingham area tomorrow, Devon & Cornwall (maybe as far as Land's End) on Monday, and a class field trip to Dorset next Friday-Sunday. I leave for Oslo two days after that. I'm trying to get all my traveling in before my rail passes expire and my nasty class schedule begins (both of which will happen around the beginning of November).

Earlier today I presented a seminar about my Ph.D. research for the Univ. of Reading's Boundary Layer (meteorology) Group. The seminar went VERY well. The observation & analysis parts were accepted surprisingly well despite my invention of new terms, unique way of looking at the boundary layer, and virtual ignoring of some of the factors they usually look at. On the modeling side, they gave very good suggestions and I see some excellent opportunities for collaboration. They're working on a model here that could be great for driving my model. I see loads of possibilities. And I think my research/model could be very useful for forecasting temperatures and fog in certain parts of England.

posted by Matt @ 11:25 PM