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Travelling with your children
…Malaysian airspace. It will not leave me for a while but doesn’t spoil the signature dish of Singaporian spicy crab offered in a restaurant on the sea front with a…
Christmas Wishes
…and a hole punch by way of Christmas gifts. Tennessee helpfully informs Santa to discuss her Christmas gift selection with her father via text. Elisha, would like to be turned…
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….
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…
Sediment sampling gets scientific!
…be controlled by grain size (given that in the Sundarbans cores examined, grain size has been found to control the provenance signature). Larger grain size material means that sedimentation rate…
We shall not cease from exploration
…the underlying features, the relict patterns of sedimentation. These sedimentary units (i.e. the alternating series of black and grey lines) reflect what may be considered to be a tidal signature,…
Of Data Collection and Procrastination
…the then manager as a business colleague of Vincent van Walt and somehow managed to open a joint bank account. That same day he transferred £60,000 from both our business…
Coming of Age
…course but also because we’ve been gifted with loyal colleagues. They work hard and combine that with an element of fun and a feeling of proprietorship. They share some traits…
Multnomah Falls
…full moon. The next morning the sickness left the village and above where she had fallen, the spirits gave tribute to her sacrifice by gifting the falls to the village….
Clay Cliffs and Ice Crystals
…sun. At its lowest it was eight degrees below zero, wind-still with a low mist. A photographer’s dream. Nature aims to gift us wonders. Vincent van Walt, Wanaka, May 2018…
What’s cooler than a Enzo Ferrari?
…cores were transported down to School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin for ITRAXTM core scanning. The ITRAXTM core scanner takes high resolution radiographic and optical images…
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…