Oceanographic Cruises
This is a place holder – it will be an index to descriptions and photos from some past cruises I’ve been on.
Author: Peter Taylor
Past Holidays
This is a place holder – it will be an index to descriptions and photos from some past holidays I’ve been on.
1974: GATE
(place holder only) GATE was the GARP1 Tropical Atlantic Experiment and took place off the west coast of tropical Africa in summer 1974. Blurb Temporary...
1975: Seattle Summer
My first visit to the USA was for a summer school at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington State. I was sponsored by a NATO air-sea interaction scholarship.
1979: Skiing at Albiez-le-Vieux
Having lived in France, Nicky had French friends who lived in Paris and had access to a chalet in the little village of Albiez-le-Vieux. When...
December 1979: Australia (IUGG)
In 1979 the General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics was held at the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra. It was...
Jan. 1980: Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, and Claremont
The 1980 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California.
March 1980: Pasadena… SeaSat-JASIN
During 18-26 March 1980 the Jet Propulsion Laboratory hosted the SeaSat-JASIN workshop at what was then the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena, California. The first...
Sept. 1982: Monterey, California
I had a meeting at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and took the opportunity to visit Cannery Row.
January 1983: Marrakech
I’m not sure why we decided to go to Marrakech in January 1983. Apart from using a package trip to Crete to get the flight...