Speaker tips
April 28, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Presentations
Liveblog (Vienna, Austria): We’re four talks into the European Geosciences Union General Assembly (#EGU2014). Already we have seen how some speakers could improve their presentations. 1. Too many graphs on one slide that are spoken about too quickly, if they are spoken about at all. 2. Font sizes too small to be seen, even when […]
I’ll be blogging the European Geosciences Union General Assembly
We’ll be blogging and tweeting (@EloquentScience) away at the 2014 European Geosciences Union General Assembly next week in Vienna, Austria. Get tips on how to improve your presentation. Find out who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. đ You can follow me and all the other bloggers and tweeters at http://geolog.egu.eu/general-assembly-blogroll/.
Thoughts on the impact factors and other metrics: Royal Meteorological Society journals
March 31, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Publishing
Recently, I’ve been having some discussions with people about the impact factors for the Royal Meteorological Society journals (Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, Weather, Meteorological Applications, Atmospheric Science Letters, and International Journal of Climatology). The issues of how to raise impact factors for journals are not simple. The impact factors of nearly all […]
“Over” versus “more than”
Reader Russ Schumacher pointed out to me that the Associated Press has now accepted both “over” and “more than” as in “over 500 people attended” and “more than 500 people attended”. The outrage from the community is described here. Where do you stand?
My response to 3monththesis’s “Why some perfectionism is a good thing”
The original post is here, and the post starts: One of the most common pieces of writing advice is to âjust get words down on the page; donât worry about detail, and donât think too muchâ. This is often given as a way of overcoming writers block, or the âfear of the blank pageâ. Perfectionism […]
Oh…snap! 1895-style.
March 6, 2014 Filed under Blog, Featured, Humor, Publishing, Uncategorized
From the mini-Annals of Improbable Research (“mini-AIR”) “Pitted Pebbles in the Bunter Conglomerate of Cannock Chase.” T. Mellard Reade, Geological Magazine, vol. 2, no. 8, August 1895, pp. 341-5. LINK: The author instructs: “Mr. W. S. Gresley criticizes the summing-up of my views… It would have been more satisfactory if Mr. Gresley could have read […]
Polarimetric radar terminology
My colleague Joey Picca from the Upton NWS Forecast Office tells me that the term “dual-polarimetric” is redundant because “polarimetric” already implies the use of a radar with multiple polarizations. Thus, “polarimetric” or “dual-polarization” are more proper. Image from http://www.cimms.ou.edu/~schuur/radar.html
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Dan Keyser’s Edward Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award Speech: Words of Wisdom for Teachers
Daniel Keyserâs Acceptance Speech for the 2014 Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award I never expected to receive an award for teaching, let alone an award named after Ed Lorenz. I offer my heartfelt thanks to my former and current students who nominated me for the Lorenz Award and to the Selection Committee for conferring […]
A tribute to the teacher without whom Eloquent Science would not have been written
Yesterday I found out that Professor Dan Keyser of the State University of New York at Albany won the 2014 Edward N. Lorenz Teaching Excellence Award, given by the American Meteorological Society. The citation stipulates: “For meticulous and inspiring lectures, for a demanding yet compassionate demeanor, for his individualized mentoring and unwavering commitment to his […]
