about

Welcome dear visitor: let me briefly summarize what you can find on this website. I don’t necessarily want it to be the final resting place for either a personal ad or a professional resumé (although the latter might well be found here at the appropriate time). But I do feel that certain other resources, perhaps fleetingly mentioned during a conversation, become much more tangible when bound to a URI. For example, we might be telling each other about our most recent vacations; but unless you come for a visit to charming Princeton and decide that you want me to fire up my slide projector, you’ll probably never get to see my photos. Were it not for a corresponding section on this page, of course (which, by the way, still contains only a fraction of my pictures). Another example: sometimes (albeit rarely), I encounter individuals who exhibit a real interest in what I actually do. Given time and leisure I am always happy to explain such things during a mouth-to-mouth conversation, but if I have to type across fiber optics, I might as well point my counterpart to a pre-written and lovely-worded synopsis.

What else? Well, if you haven’t figured it out by clicking through the rest of the pages, I am a grad student in a field called “atmospheric and oceanic sciences“. And, as I point out on my facebook profile, that has next to nothing to do with charismatic megafauna. (“Next to” nothing because William Dewar of FSU thinks that giant squid mix the ocean during their two-times-eight-tentacled procreational activities: Does the marine biosphere mix the ocean?)

But enough. Enjoy the browsing.