Winter

It snows a lot here (normally). Naturally, the people here take advantage of that. The University has a Winter Carnival every year. Snow sculptures, beard competitions, ice fishing contests... A few years ago, a couple of artists decided they wanted to participate in Winter Carnival by freezing a Chevy Nova into a big block of ice. They called it the Frozen Car Project. Easy, right? It gets cold here after all.

Turns out freezing water isn't as easy as getting it cold... (See Research, above). They revised the plan to use some already frozen blocks cut from a local pond.

String Theory


A picture of my favorite string theorist.
We adopted Mason on Sept. 10, 2001. He passed away on Sept. 10, 2016.


Alaska and the Indian Ocean

I went to graduate school at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. While there, I lived in a one-room cabin with no running water for a couple years, which was not unusual for grad students. (You don't have to be very far out of town to make running water unfeasible.) I also participated in the Indian Ocean Experiment (INDOEX).

View from a trail off the Denali Highway                                    Cumulus cloud and rainshaft coming through the InterTropical Convergence Zone