Lunamuse is updated

I have not had much time at all but I know that I have had lunamuse up for a while lacking in several components that make it usable. I have added photos from New Zealand and Antarctica and added titles for the cubes when you rollover them. I will keep working on this on a very slow basis.

Getting near to the end of my masters degree

I guess I should get this story moving along… I took off to Mobile Alabama with Dave (my professor) where we started in on trying to measure Methane coming out of the water from Mobile bay. This is of great interest to the Carbon cycle because so much detritus material is built up there from a very large watershed landmass. Why this is of interest is because a lot of material is washing into the ocean but tectonics is not fast enough to keep up with erosion. So this means that eventually erosion would eliminate the land and the ocean would become a nasty soup. Of course this is a little extreme but without the chemistry of the sun and the water, it could possibly happen. What we are trying to find here is how much carbon detritus material is transformed into methane and transferred to the atmosphere to eventually be rained back down on the continents. This is a very basic way of looking at a very small portion of a very large project. The carbon cycle is extremely complex and ever changing as our planet and our sun are changing. Well I thought that I was going to conclude this story but there is a couple more places that I went before settling on a final project idea.

I just want to make a short note about these scientific findings and information. What I have been telling you about this research and these hypothesis is all true, just simplified. There is much information on all of these things if you want to know more. Try Google Scholar , better yet Answers.com.

More... Long Road to a Thesis!

I headed back to the school that I finished my Bachelors degree in (SUNY ESF) and asked my professor if he would like to have me back in the lab. He accepted me with open arms and I got to work right away. I started in on project #1 that involved me involved in lots of travel once again. This first trip was a cruise into the Atlantic Ocean on the RV Endeavor. We were stationed in the Sargasso Sea in the vicinity of Bermuda, yes within the Bermuda triangle. There is no real Bermuda triangle affects observed anymore. Boats don’t get lost, planes don’t go down but scientists do research DMS photolysis. These eutrophic waters are unique and important to investigate the organic sulfur cycle and fill in missing sections of the biogeochemical sulfur cycle. What this means is we are trying to help discover how the Earth helps repair itself. This research is very important to help us try and gain a hold on the destruction we have caused to the earth already. Discovering the key to natural replenishment of Ozone and reduction of greenhouse gases is the key to rejuvenating our planet.

After returning from this cruise and adding greatly to our knowledge base, I was placed on a new project, which would take me to a new place…