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Errata: Figure 19.1

December 7, 2009   Filed under Blog, Excerpts, News, Resources  

Please replace Fig. 19.1 on p. 227 with the correct version below. I had inadvertently used an earlier version of the figure that Dave Whiteman supplied, and this error slipped past both his and my readings of the page proofs.

American versus British English

November 6, 2009   Filed under Articles, Blog, Resources, Writing  

[DMS: This was a sidebar that I cut from the book.  Even before I met and married my British–Australian wife, I had this sidebar in mind very early in the planning of the book.] Over 300 years of separation has led to discernible differences between English as practiced in the United States and English as […]

Excerpt: Three Items of Essential Reading

August 22, 2009   Filed under Excerpts, Popular, Resources  

This is an excerpt from the For Further Reading section at the end of the book.

Powerful Poster Presentations

August 22, 2009   Filed under Posters, Resources  

This entry was written by Sabine Göke, head of the radar group at the University of Helsinki in Finland. She was awarded the Spiros G. Geotis Prize for her first poster presentation at the 28th American Meteorological Society Conference on Radar Meteorology, Austin, Texas, USA.

PowerPoint Tricks You May Not Have Heard About

August 20, 2009   Filed under Featured, Presentations, Resources  

Microsoft PowerPoint is so pervasive, yet discovering little tricks to assist your presentation are out there. Here is a list of the ones I find most useful or have great potential to be put to use by speakers.

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