Chapter 24: Accessible Oral Presentations: Free to download
September 11, 2019 Filed under Blog, Excerpts, Featured, Presentations
“Most of the time at conferences is spent listening to others talk. Given the over- whelming challenge for the audience to sit through, absorb, and remember mate- rial from all these presentations, a speaker must be memorable to connect with the audience. As the previous chapters focused on scientific writing, this chapter starts by distinguishing […]
Please don’t pass a review invitation onto your student or colleague
From time to time, I get reviewers who need to decline a review invitation, but instead tell me that they’ve passed on their review invitation to a student or colleague. The invitee may think that they are helping out the editor (in some cases, they are), but there are good reasons why they should not […]
How to download a reference from AMS Journals Online
. 1. Go to an article, say http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-16-0460.1 2. On the red bar, click on the download button (third icon from left). 3. This screen appears: http://journals.ametsoc.org/action/showCitFormats?doi=10.1175%2FMWR-D-16-0460.1 4. At the bottom, you can copy the text for the reference list, including the doi. Steenburgh, W.J. and L.S. Campbell, 2017: The OWLeS IOP2b Lake-Effect Snowstorm: Shoreline […]
How Bill Paxton Helped Us Understand Tornadoes in Europe
Today I learned that Bill Paxton died at the age of 61. I never met him, although I knew people who had met him during the filming of Twister. He was said to be friendly and curious about the science on set. Many meteorologists of a certain age group are likely in this career because […]
Goodreads loves Eloquent Science
December 22, 2016 Filed under Blog
The Goodread visitors who have read Eloquent Science rate us quite highly: 4.15 out of 5. Thank you to everyone! UPDATE (30 July 2022): 4.48 now. Thank you! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7391723-eloquent-science
