This speech was prepared for the first meeting of the Columbia University Amnesty group, where I served as webmaster for one year. It was intended as an introduction to the world of Amnesty International including some of the history behind the organization. Hi everyone and welcome to the first meeting. First of all, can...
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I recently completed a paid internship at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, which is based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in the City of New York. It involved being the official photographer for the 2008 Summer Institute. What does that mean? I hear you ask… well, I constructed...
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New York Tonight saw the launch of “Consilience: The Journal of Sustainable Development”. It is the first student-run interdisciplinary journal of sustainable development… ever. That’s pretty cool. It will be an annual publication and the first issue consists of 12 articles. Now here’s the kicker – one of those articles was penned by me!...
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I weathered the storm of the previous year and in some good company I was here found to welcome January without a fear My feet finally returned to solid ground from abstract worlds to which my maths had taken me aloft and in many equations drowned Relaxed anew, my mind it hath awakened and...
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This poem was sent to the members of the cuai-board email listserv as a christmas card and may have been influenced by the alcohol that inevitably accompanies christmas gatherings. To all my friends in amnesty I write to you with festive cheer for from semester, we are free so closer still to your degree...
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This poem was emailed to all the students in W4400 Dynamics of Climate Variability and Climate Change in the fall of 2007 during a particularly frustrating late night of pre-exam study. To all my friends who with me share The burden of this final act I call you now, to come, to dare And...
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Photo Essay. A typical week in the life a a Columbia University graduate student.
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I finally have some time to update all of my beloved fans of my progress. Actually, I’m siting in class right now and I’m very bored. The class is on probability. It makes sense to educate climate science grad students on probability, however, owing to our diverse backgrounds, it is also necessary to begin...
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This one one of a series of travel emails I sent to friends and family who wished to follow my travels through Latin America in the first half of 2007 Nothing really prepares you for the Iguazu falls. They’re big. Very big. They are the second most voluminous waterfalls in the world after Victoria...
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Asuncion Do you like apples? Well… I’m going to one, a big one! How do you like them apples? Fine print: After a long and nail-biting wait, I have been admitted to the M.A. in Climate and Society at Columbia University in the City of New York. I still can’t quite believe it. Some...
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