Congratulations, Luis!!

Luis defended his Master's thesis yesterday morning, and did a great job. He's now just finishing up with the formatting so that he can submit it to the graduate school for binding. His half hour lecture generated some interesting discussion afterwards, including how box cores and different acoustic frequencies might be combined in the future to come up with better estimates of the bottom type for classification. I think everyone hopes that they can deliver their thesis topics so clearly and calmly. Congratulations!

Stephan's Thesis

Stephan is finishing up his thesis really soon and has been getting people to try out his software. It's very cool, you put on some special glasses and you can see an ocean current visualization in 3-D on the screen. There's a 3-D mouse/pen for moving around on the screen. The software includes 5 different types of virtual sensors (such as dye pots and streamers) to choose from to help you see and understand the flow speed and volume at different depths. And as a bonus, the glasses are very flattering, as you can see from the photo.

Subversionland

It is kind of lame and more than a little bit dorky to write about this in my blog, but it's so exciting I just can't help it. I have finally got a Subversion folder of my very own set up on the CCOM server - woo hoo! It's better than a backup system (hold on to your hats folks) - it will save every single revision that I ever do on my thesis, even if I make 700 revisions! Holy moley.

I haven't quite got the commands or structure sorted out in my head though, so I'm a little bit dangerous to myself right now. I need to make sure I don't inadvertantly overwrite something that's on my computer, yikes. Okay, if any of my CCOM friends are interested in learning how, I will show you whatever I know (which is not much right now, I'll admit). You should definitely get Nathan to set up a subversion account for you, you won't regret it.

Here's the book, it's online and it's totally free, and in a variety of formats (namely pdf and html): Subversion book .

And yes, I said holy moley. There's just no better way to describe it.

Thesis defense

Kim's thesis defense is today, it's on estuary current modelling - cool. I bet she's going to feel pretty good after about 5 o'clock. I'll find out what it's like a short year and a half from now. I got a sneak preview of her presentation and it's very neat. She kept the scary equations down to a minimum and she explained things well. I hope that I can manage to do that when my turn comes. Good luck, Kim!