Past Holidays
This is a place holder – it will be an index to descriptions and photos from some past holidays I’ve been on.
Category: Past Times
In 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic has kept me ashore for the season and, prompted by the discovery that it was now easier to scan old slides and photos, I decided to add some descriptions of past times for which I have photos (mainly travels and cruises) – for my own enjoyment!
MEDOC 1970: a Cruise Diary
MEDOC 1970 looked at Mediterranean bottom water formation and outflow into the Atlantic. I’ve reproduced my Diary from this, my first cruise, and added footnotes.
JASIN 1970: OWS Juliet 52.5°N 20°W
No sooner had I returned from the MEDOC cruise in March, 1970, than Prof. Charnock asked me to accompany him on the next RRS Discovery...
1974: GATE
(place holder only) GATE was the GARP1 Atlantic Tropical Experiment and took place off the west coast of tropical Africa in summer 1974. It was...
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)
Attending the IUGG General Assembly in Canberra with a car trip to the Blue Mountains and a visit to Sydney
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
Collaboration with JPL in a workshop at the Huntington Sheraton Hotel in Pasadena to evaluate the first oceanographic satellite, Seasat. Then visiting friends at Claremont.
Sept. 1982: Monterey, California
I had a meeting at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and took the opportunity to visit Cannery Row.