[Data-Mongers] TODAY 3/12 Informatics Talk - Sandy Williams - Antarctica and South Georgia

[Holly Miller]

The next Informal Lunch Talk will be:

When:  TODAY 12:15 pm, Monday, March 12, 2012
Where: WHOI Exhibit Center (Ocean Science Exhibit Center on map). 
Who: Sandy Williams (Albert J. Williams 3rd, Scientist Emeritus WHOI)
Title: Antarctica and South Georgia


About the talk: 

This presentation is a slide show from several trips to Antarctica and a recent trip to South Georgia.  Elephant seals, fur seals, birds in the air and penguins are featured as well as the whaling stations’ remains.  Snow features in many of the images.

About the speaker:
Albert (Sandy) Williams received his AB in Physics from Swarthmore College in 1962 and his Ph.D. in physics from Johns Hopkins University in 1969.  He spent his entire career at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, becoming Scientist Emeritus in 2002.  A Fellow of IEEE, he received the Distinguished Technical Achievement Award of the IEEE/Oceanic Engineering Society in 2000 and is presently VP Technical Activities for OES.  He went to Antarctica in 2001, 2004, and 2006; twice for XBT, CTD, and ADCP surveys across the Drake Passage and in the Bransfield Strait, and twice for scuba diving for salps.  In October 2011 he took a cruise with his wife and many WHOI connected people to South Georgia where wildlife were viewed in this nearly uninhabited sub Antarctic island. 

The Monday Lunch talks are held every other Monday. We have created a wiki page for these and other Informatics events in Woods Hole. Please consider giving a talk, we have lot's of openings in 2012! Let us know if you about any informatics related event and we will add it to this page. Those of you who haven't subscribed to the Informatics discussion list, you might want to. Information on how to subscribe is on the wiki page above.

See you there!

Holly Miller 
hmiller at mbl.edu

Anne Thessen 
athessen at eol.org

Andrew Maffei 
amaffei at whoi.edu


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