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Dave in Suomi: July 2007
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Dave's adventures in Finland. Tuesday, July 31, 2007. Forecasters: Finland versus the US. As I learn more about forecasting and meteorological education in Finland, I am increasingly surprised at the differences between forecasters between the two countries. If you talk to meteorology undergraduates in the US, you will run into a significant fraction of them who are dying to get jobs in the US National Weather Service (NWS). That is their career goal: they just want to forecast for the NWS. Days are gett...
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Dave in Suomi: September 2007
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Dave's adventures in Finland. Wednesday, September 26, 2007. Finland catching up with USA in productivity. INTERNATIONAL EDITION - BUSINESS and FINANCE. The productivity of Finnish labour is among the best in Europe. According to the International Labour Organisation, Finland has managed to significantly improve its productivity, bringing it closer to that of the United States. The high productivity figures in the USA are largely explained by long working days and short holidays. The change in the produc...
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Dave in Suomi: February 2007
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Dave's adventures in Finland. Monday, February 26, 2007. This weekend's musuem was the Postal Museum of Finland. A museum of the history of mail delivery and stamps. For those who didn't know, I was an avid stamp collector as a child. The collection still resides in my childhood home, untouched for the last five or six years when I ran out of stamp hinges. Fortunately, the Postal Museum of Finland Gift Shop had the solution to my dilemma! So, I will regain the fun of my youth next time I'm home. In all, ...
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Dave in Suomi: April 2007
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Dave's adventures in Finland. Thursday, April 26, 2007. European Geosciences Union meeting in Vienna. I did attend some really well-presented and interesting sessions, especially the Dynamical Meteorology session organized by Conny Schwierz and the session on communicating natural hazards. I was even surprised by a nice session on gravity waves late on Friday afternoon. The conference ended late on Friday, afterwhich I changed hotels and started my vacation. Posted by David Schultz @ 5:17 PM. Finland is ...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: June 2008
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Sunday, June 15, 2008. How the Internet is changing reading habits of researchers. An article in the July/August issue of. Entitled, "Is Google making us stupid? The report Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. Based on longitudinal studies in the UK and the US, the CIBER research team at Un...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: February 2008
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Friday, February 29, 2008. A new PAC: the Period And Comma manifesto. It's based on "The Internationale", of course! I placed a comma after a final quotation mark! You, too, can be bold! Arise, ye writers from your slumbers. Arise, ye prisoners of type. For reason in revolt now thunders. Tyrants of type we'l...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: May 2008
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Wednesday, May 14, 2008. Microsoft provides free access to new WorldWide Telescope. Microsoft has given us a great gift, the WorldWide Telescope. The mission of the WWT is twofold:. By connecting to the same source materials that scientists at NASA and Caltech are using for their research, WWT is a powerful ...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: Quantifying the Volunteer Effort of Scientific Peer Reviewing
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Sunday, September 23, 2012. Quantifying the Volunteer Effort of Scientific Peer Reviewing. After a two-year study of reviewers of Monthly Weather Review. My co-author David M. Schultz. Here is the abstract:. A survey of 310 reviewers for Monthly Weather Review. Addresses how much time and effort goes into th...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: Common Challenges for ESL Authors - Q & A
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Monday, September 24, 2012. Common Challenges for ESL Authors - Q and A. The purpose of this post is to solicit questions and excerpts from your writing that confound you. Some aspects of English writing are difficult for many native English speakers as well, e.g., choosing between its. The influx of papers ...
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Excellence in Scientific Writing: November 2007
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Excellence in Scientific Writing. This site welcomes science writers and editors who are passionate about improving the quality of information, education, and support for the peaceful use of science. Friday, November 30, 2007. Entrepreneurship and public policy. Http:/ sciencecareers.sciencemag.org/career development/previous issues/articles/. 2007 11 23/science opms r0700032. Posted by Mary Golden. Links to this post. Thursday, November 29, 2007. By David D. Zhang, Peter Brecke, Harry F. Lee, Yu...To be...
