I ought to take more photos.

On a late-evening walk about Dover yesterday, I remembered that I often posted photos to my San Francisco blog when words failed me. I feel like, given the regularity of lab work on a daily scale, I should take pictures of something and post them here for the sake of you, my faithful readers.

The deal with research now is finding which events occur during a period in which some of the magnetometer stations are in daylight and some are in darkness. (Actually, when I refer to the stations, what I really mean is the ionosphere above the stations.) Those are the tricky ones for the following reason: sunlight increases the conductivity of the ionosphere, which we believe affects the way that these events lose power on their trip to the pole. When all the stations are lit, we can just say that the event happened in daylight but how to we examine its power loss if it spends part of its time in sunlit ionosphere and part in darkness? That's what I'm working on now.

My friend Jake is going to take over Al's part of the lease for June - August. He finds himself recently homeless and Al has been trying to fund a subletee even since he unofficially moved in with Amy so I arranged the deal earlier this week. For those of you who remember my CCMS days, Jake played sax in the scholarship ensemble with me. I don't remember if he played tenor or alto.

So let's review: My homework is to take pictures of Dover, the ionosphere and fat birds. Your homework is to make it sunny again.