Presentations All Week; China Visit
Sep. 29th, 2023 04:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tcpipFor the past five days in succession, I have been involved in presentations in some manner. Today I attended the seminars for our paleoclimatology paper at the University of Wellington and I presented on "The Younger Dryas and The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation" at Wellington University. The YD is clearly a topic of great interest as one other researcher gave a paper on the "impact hypothesis" as a critical review (it's almost certainly not true) and another in the context of volcanism (a contributing factor, but probably insufficient). Other seminar presentations included the idea of microplastics as a marker for the Anthropocene (I rate animal population extinctions and habitat change a little higher, but plastics can certainly be an "indicator species"), along with one on animal and plant population changes in the New Zealand Southern alpine regions due to climate change.
In addition to this, yesterday I chaired the presentation by Dr Matthew Burns and Tom Wilkins from the University's Waterway Ecosystem Research Group, who spoke about the implementation of "backyard catchments" and invertebrate populations. Preceding this was three days of Spartan Upgrade workshops that I conducted; the second day was probably the most interesting with the most relevant questions on the new software stack. Next week there is another presentation at Wellington University, but that is a group project (climate change mitigation in the Te Tairawhiti region - fortunately someone else has stepped up to do the actual presentation, so I'll just be making contributions to that.
It is probably opportune to mention in this context that I'll be visiting China is a couple of weeks, specifically Wuxi for the "International Conference on Green and Innovation-driven Development in Cities and Towns". I attended the first conference last year (online) and was quite impressed by the emphasis on presentations from an engineering, town-planning, and ecological background, and of course, the city itself has been part of a low-emissions pilot program for some years. This will be my first visit to said country and, as can be expected, the visa application was quite a hefty form, but all processed quite efficiently.
In addition to this, yesterday I chaired the presentation by Dr Matthew Burns and Tom Wilkins from the University's Waterway Ecosystem Research Group, who spoke about the implementation of "backyard catchments" and invertebrate populations. Preceding this was three days of Spartan Upgrade workshops that I conducted; the second day was probably the most interesting with the most relevant questions on the new software stack. Next week there is another presentation at Wellington University, but that is a group project (climate change mitigation in the Te Tairawhiti region - fortunately someone else has stepped up to do the actual presentation, so I'll just be making contributions to that.
It is probably opportune to mention in this context that I'll be visiting China is a couple of weeks, specifically Wuxi for the "International Conference on Green and Innovation-driven Development in Cities and Towns". I attended the first conference last year (online) and was quite impressed by the emphasis on presentations from an engineering, town-planning, and ecological background, and of course, the city itself has been part of a low-emissions pilot program for some years. This will be my first visit to said country and, as can be expected, the visa application was quite a hefty form, but all processed quite efficiently.
