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kareinaAfter 12 days of working (ok, with some breaks to work on the stuff for the job application about which I've also been posting) on the expansion and revision to the section of chapter two dealing with the pressure-temperature estimates using the "GB-GBPQ" technique, I have *finally* finished it! There was much rejoicing! The expanded version meant doing lots of extra calculations--anywhere from 9 to 32 per sample. Originally I'd chosen the "best" set of minerals by selecting those which are in close proximity to one another and with reasonably representative compositions and did one set of calculation for each sample. This time I went through and did the calculations for each analysis point (typically three of them) on the mineral, and did as many combinations of minerals as were available in that sample. Fortunately the calculations themselves are easy to do, simply copy-paste the composition from one spreadsheet into the correct cells of another spreadsheet and then change the "input" temperature to match that calculated based upon the "input" pressure, and change the "input" pressure to match that calculated by the "input temperature. Repeat those adjustments until the calculated pressure matches the input pressure and the calculated temperature matches the input temperature. However, the process is tedious enough, and also required creating figures showing just which spots on which minerals are used for the calculations, that 10 samples took 12 days to complete! Each day didn't yield many extra words--today's total, including the summary paragraph for all of them, is only an additional 286 words and another three figures.
However, with this out of the way, I'm hopeful that the rest of the revisions to chapter two suggested by my advisor go quickly. Tomorrow I have my "annual review" wherin I meet with my advisor and the "graduate research coordinator" for the department to fill out paperwork explaining to the Uni how I intend to be done by year's end, and what steps are still left to complete, and how long we think each of them will take. Then I use the super-fancy camera/microscope set up to take really high-resolution photos of the zircons I mounted last week so that on Monday I can make marks on the photos showing which ones I analyse with the laser.
Yesterday I discovered that the "Tectonics" e-mail list I'm on is one wherein replies go to the list. I meant to send my CV to just the person to whom I was replying, but it went to everyone. Being an academic list, attachments are permitted! So I sent a follow up note apologizing to the list, and commenting that since they all have my CV, if anyone happens to know of a post-doc position I might be interested in, please let me know. I got three replies to that with leads to potential post doc positions! Today someone else sent an abstract for an upcoming conference to the list rather than the individual to whom he thought he was replying, so I'm not the only one. I didn't mean to spam the list, but it may have been a good thing, I'll keep you posted.
However, with this out of the way, I'm hopeful that the rest of the revisions to chapter two suggested by my advisor go quickly. Tomorrow I have my "annual review" wherin I meet with my advisor and the "graduate research coordinator" for the department to fill out paperwork explaining to the Uni how I intend to be done by year's end, and what steps are still left to complete, and how long we think each of them will take. Then I use the super-fancy camera/microscope set up to take really high-resolution photos of the zircons I mounted last week so that on Monday I can make marks on the photos showing which ones I analyse with the laser.
Yesterday I discovered that the "Tectonics" e-mail list I'm on is one wherein replies go to the list. I meant to send my CV to just the person to whom I was replying, but it went to everyone. Being an academic list, attachments are permitted! So I sent a follow up note apologizing to the list, and commenting that since they all have my CV, if anyone happens to know of a post-doc position I might be interested in, please let me know. I got three replies to that with leads to potential post doc positions! Today someone else sent an abstract for an upcoming conference to the list rather than the individual to whom he thought he was replying, so I'm not the only one. I didn't mean to spam the list, but it may have been a good thing, I'll keep you posted.
