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2011 – Expect big things from Van Walt
…and grow. Secondly, it may have been the holiday period but we’ve been busy preparing for 2011 – our plans are ambitious and, because many of the initiatives will affect…
A very organised chaos
…images. His information was plentiful and somewhat overwhelming in quantity but I’m sure he said that there were as many as nine Delhis. In fact, according to the government website…
16th QRA International Postgraduate Symposium Durham 2011
…superb 2011 Postgraduate Symposium, and thank them for all their hard work over the three days. We look forward to seeing everyone again at next year’s QRA Symposium at Aberdeen…
An insatiable demand for data
…were plastered with framed images and yet they ordered more frames, kilometres of them. And throughout my career which now spans almost 40 years I’ve experienced the same about data….
What’s cooler than a Enzo Ferrari?
…another orbit, the see that an electron has been knocked out of a lower orbit and decide to take up that space on the lower orbit). When the electron from…
Why is soil solution sampling important?
…to come across a paper by Steven Falivene, dated November 2008 on Soil Solution monitoring in Australia (http://www.irrigationfutures.org.au/imagesDB/news/SoilSolutionreportIM0408-FINAL.pdf). A lengthy and detailed account of his research on the sustainability of…
Prospecting for gold in the Congo
…images from these and many other locations are always filled with huge drilling rigs, life-sized Tonka trucks and landscapes scrapped bare following the excavation of precious resources. But at the…
Know your customers and competitors too!
…with good competition – usually very short lived! Whatever your field remember – it’s a small world. Images and facts from around the world reach our laptops in seconds so…
Shall we talk about the weather?
…be plenty of snow. How does the weather affect other nations (do they complain as we do)? Well it seems they do and in 2011 they have had a lot…
Installation & Maintenance of the Nitrate Sensor
Why we need to regularly clean and maintain the Nitrate sensor and some of the challenges of successful installation
The Realities of Research (from a PhD student’s perspective)
…giving up job security and a decent wage, and for what? PhDs are unpredictable – research is unpredictable – so enrolling for a PhD does not mean you will necessarily…
Brits and Yanks: Are we separated by more than a common language?
…finances from the driver for the 45 minute duration of the journey to my Hotel in San Diego; the venue of the 2011 North American Environmental Field Conference and exposition….