![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Workshop Fin
Jul. 4th, 2009 05:29 amWe finished the workshop. Reviews were very very good. It was gratifying. I got super duper sick for the last half of the workshop and missed a day. That was disappointing, but not a disaster. I did do a bit o' good networking, so I have a new contact. Hooray. I'm going to arrange for him to come and do a colloquium talk in Fall at UNC.
I am going to miss France, but not having the stress of driving and herding academics for a week. It'll be good to go home. I miss my sweetie.
I got some ideas for my forest survey. I'm going to have to get up to speed on the ecologists statistics. And I now have notion of how to do it. "Gradients" are going to be important, so I have to pay attention to slope and aspect in my sampling. Given how crazy hilly this area is, and the size of the patches I'm working with (small) this is going to be interesting. I do hope I can get some proxy data via tax records for harvesting information. We'll see. Its a big project and I really wish we had a field ecologist for a collaborator.
Had a discussion with my adviser C regarding career stuff. She agrees with W that I need to improve my French to keep working here. She also said it would be a good idea to email I.R. to see if he had datasets that I could work on. He does CRM stuff in Europe, so it is likely that he'll have materials.
Today we are going to go out and look at some crop marks. Its our last day, so we are taking it a bit easy. We are going to have dinner at the Uxeau cafe, which is nice. Less work there and good cheap food to boot. We'll need to pack (oooh, this is going to be haaard) and clean a bit. Tomorrow we drive to Paris and depart. I kind of hate the A6, but that's the fastest road so that's what we are doing. Ugh.
I am going to miss France, but not having the stress of driving and herding academics for a week. It'll be good to go home. I miss my sweetie.
I got some ideas for my forest survey. I'm going to have to get up to speed on the ecologists statistics. And I now have notion of how to do it. "Gradients" are going to be important, so I have to pay attention to slope and aspect in my sampling. Given how crazy hilly this area is, and the size of the patches I'm working with (small) this is going to be interesting. I do hope I can get some proxy data via tax records for harvesting information. We'll see. Its a big project and I really wish we had a field ecologist for a collaborator.
Had a discussion with my adviser C regarding career stuff. She agrees with W that I need to improve my French to keep working here. She also said it would be a good idea to email I.R. to see if he had datasets that I could work on. He does CRM stuff in Europe, so it is likely that he'll have materials.
Today we are going to go out and look at some crop marks. Its our last day, so we are taking it a bit easy. We are going to have dinner at the Uxeau cafe, which is nice. Less work there and good cheap food to boot. We'll need to pack (oooh, this is going to be haaard) and clean a bit. Tomorrow we drive to Paris and depart. I kind of hate the A6, but that's the fastest road so that's what we are doing. Ugh.
