Summer is an ideal time to learn new things and explore new ideas. This week we discuss what we want to learn over the summer and how we are going to accomplish these goals. What’s your summer manifesto? Also we get showered by cosmic rays and lightning as part of #FunPaperFriday.
John’s Summer Manifesto
Learn Swift programming language for mobile computing development
Develop classroom materials to go with some demonstrations and videos I have collected
- Using screen flow to capture computer screen with voice overs
- Use Python notebooks to capture data analysis
- Host materials on GitHub for free and open access
Setup more effective task automation to free mind space for work
Submit one manuscript and have another draft ready with all data processing in reproducible notebooks
- Editorial for writing on the mobile
- LaTex for writing the final paper (try Lyx)
- KaleidaGraph
Shannon’s Summer Manifesto
Working on my first proposal
- Setting up my research paperwork so I can start looking into grants
Getting the first chapter of my dissertation ready for submission
- Hone my figure making skills
- Learn to talk/write less!!
Actually review what I did right and wrong in my classes
- Try to keep a doc of these things so I can revisit them.
- Use more Evernote
Prep for Fall
- Teaching a new grad class - catastrophic sedimentation (if anyone has ideas, please send them to me!)
FunPaperFriday
This week we read a paper about how cosmic rays could give us new insight into how lighting works. Lots of places have been experiencing storms recently with severe weather and flooding. Lighting can do lots of strange things like explode trees and make glass. It has incredible power in each strike.
Contact us:
Show - www.dontpanicgeocast.com - @dontpanicgeo - show@dontpanicgeocast.com
John Leeman - www.johnrleeman.com - @geo_leeman
Shannon Dulin - @ShannonDulin