DTM Postdoc Blog

Welcome,  Willkommen, Welkom, Willkumm, Velkommen, Bene bennios, Sansofe, Yang shok, Irashaimasu, Bienvenue, Bienvenido, Benvenuto, Marhaba, 欢迎, Khosh Aamadid, hoşgeldin!, Здравствуйте…. to the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism of the Carnegie Institution of Washington!

DTM welcomes Predoctoral Fellow Sabrina Ferrari, who will be visiting our campus for seven weeks.  Sabrina is pursuing her Ph.D. in the Dept. of Geosciences at the University of Padua and will work with  Paul Byrne and Christian Klimczak.

Welcome Kelsey Druken!  Kelsey comes to us from Rhode Island, where she received her undergraduate degree in Physics and her PhD in Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography.  At DTM, Kelsey will be working with David James on the High Lava Plains experiment.

Welcome Deep Carbon Observatory Postdoctoral Fellow Marion Le Voyer!!  Bienvenue! Marion completed her Ph.D. in igneous petrology petrology from the CNRS at Clermont-Ferrand in 2009 and spent the last two years as a postdoctoral associate at Caltech.

Held a farewell party for Eloise Gallou (moving to the Museum of Natural History, LA), Chin-Wu Chen (National Taiwan University), and Daoyuan Sun (University of Southern California).  We will miss them for sure!

Congratulations to former DTM Postdoctoral Fellow Natalia Gomez-Perez and former GL Postdoctoral Fellow (now Visiting Investigator) Stewart McWilliams on the birth of their son Mateo Arthur McWilliams Gomez, born in Bogata, Colombia, on 7 November 2011!

Thanks go to Lindy Elkins-Tanton for inviting NASA’s Curt Niebur who conducted a very valuable NASA Proposal-Writing workshop!!

On Friday we said goodbye to Guillem Anglada-Escudé, who will be going to the University of Göttingen.  We will certainly miss Guillem and wish him and his family all the best!

 

The Caloris Waltz by Larry Nittler and guest violinist Paul Byrne at the 17 October Reception in Honor of Sean C. Solomon.    Piano solo by Larry Nittler of his Caloris Waltz.

DTM Women Postdoctoral Fellows:  Please see Position Openings link on this blog!  Other openings are also listed courtesy Dr. Elkins-Tanton, Paul Butler, Alycia Weinberger, and others.  Click on Housing/Nearby Hotels/Childcare/Preschool for info on local and nearby full-day care centers, provided by Alycia Weinberger.

*********************Upcoming Events:*********************

Posters can be printed using the titian poster printer in the map room (R162) on the first floor of the Research Building.  A new large format printer is now also available for use.  It is a Canon iPF8300S and is named asimov, and is located in R169.  Please follow Michael Acierno’s instructions to visit the Canon web site to download the appropriate driver for your operating system.

Practice job talk discussion, led by Lindy Elkins-Tanton, and practice talk by Brian Jackson beginning at 2:00 pm, Tuesday, 31 January.

Next Postdoc Practice Talk:  Monday, 27 February, Joleen Carlberg.

Mark your calendar: Teaching seminar by Diana Roman scheduled for 11:00 a.m., Tuesday, 27 March, Greenewalt Lecture Hall.

Mark your calendars! The 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival will take place in Washington, DC, on 27-29 April 2011.  Think about how you would like to participate!  Contact Toby Horn (thorn@carnegiescience.edu) or Julie Edmonds (jedmonds@carnegiescience.edu) at P Street if you are interested. Last year we hosted “Dig for Fossils,” “Discover Diamonds in the Dust,” and “Touch Mars on Earth.”

(See Places to Visit link for National Gallery Music schedule).

We welcome our new postdocs:  Joleen Carlberg (astronomy), Brian Jackson (astronomy), and Liyan Tian (geochemistry).

For a trip back to DTM memory lane, click here.  All photos from the past are welcomed!