I want to quickly share a couple of snapshots from my trip to Halifax last week.
The main purpose of the trip was a day with Brooke Ocean / Odim / Rolls-Royce -- the maker of our LOPC (that's LASER optical plankton counter; see previous posts). Our instrument was under repair/upgrading. I had a very nice visit, and a productive day. They greeted me with Timbits and showed me around the facility. Then we went to work on the LOPC. Here is a picture of the guts of one:
Ours was opened up like a surgery patient. By the end of the day, we got everything smoothly working. Let's hope we have the same luck when we're bobbing at sea. Hijinks to follow later this summer.
While I was in Halifax, I stopped by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. I had a very productive day there as well--some great jam sessions with other scientists. It's good to get out of my bubble and add some new sparks to ideas that are starting to go into dormancy. One of the best parts of visiting a DFO building is touring the labs. Here are a couple of snapshots.
The main purpose of the trip was a day with Brooke Ocean / Odim / Rolls-Royce -- the maker of our LOPC (that's LASER optical plankton counter; see previous posts). Our instrument was under repair/upgrading. I had a very nice visit, and a productive day. They greeted me with Timbits and showed me around the facility. Then we went to work on the LOPC. Here is a picture of the guts of one:
Ours was opened up like a surgery patient. By the end of the day, we got everything smoothly working. Let's hope we have the same luck when we're bobbing at sea. Hijinks to follow later this summer.
While I was in Halifax, I stopped by the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. I had a very productive day there as well--some great jam sessions with other scientists. It's good to get out of my bubble and add some new sparks to ideas that are starting to go into dormancy. One of the best parts of visiting a DFO building is touring the labs. Here are a couple of snapshots.
Tubes of delicious phytoplankton cultures.
A big blue lobster donating its life to science.
Yeah, science is all about meeting stimulating people and having fun conjecturing about fun ideas. Dismembering expensive gears is also a fun part of the scientific experience...
BTW, the Timbits greeting is soon to be as American as Canadian: the company wants to add 300 more restaurants by 2013 in New England !