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.
In 2020 the Covid-19 pandemic has kept me ashore for the season and I decided to add some descriptions of past times for which I have photos – mainly for my own enjoyment! On some of my trips abroad for work conferences and committee meetings I took time off before or after to do some travelling. This is a record of some of those trips; I’m adding more as I find the photos.
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.
Attending the IUGG General Assembly in Canberra with a car trip to the Blue Mountains and a visit to Sydney
The 1980 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting was held at the historic Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles, California.
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.
I had a meeting at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, and took the opportunity to visit Cannery Row.
Travelling via Pisa and the Leaning Tower to an international workshop on Satellite Altimetry and Ocean Circulation held at San Miniato, a Tuscan hill top village.
A week long NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Corsica, France, with a boat trip to one of the islands between Corsica and Sardinia.
Attending the Joint IAMAP/IAPSO Assembly in Hawaii in August 1985 and a couple of days driving around the island of Oahu with Nicky.
Staying at the Imperial Hotel in New Delhi to attend a meeting at the India Meteorology Department, and then, with Nicky, visiting Agra and Jaipur by train, and flying to Kathmandu in Nepal for a few days.
Work Trips / Past Times / Japan 1991
by Peter Taylor · Published 12/04/1991 · Last modified 04/01/2021
A three week trip to Japan with Nicky for an IGOSS Seminar and Workshop followed by a visit to Sendai as a guest at Tohoku University, a sightseeing stay in Kyoto, and a visit to Nicky’s friends in Nagano.