Can you resist joining the Citation Club?

As always a great 1 April email from the Space Physics & Aeronomy Section of the American Geophysical Union.

Citation Club Membership

Do not break the chain. In your next publication, cite a paper by every one of the authors in the list below. Then remove the top author, add your name to the bottom of the list, and mail this message to ten of your colleagues who are not on the list. One of our colleagues who broke the chain lost the supporting research and technology grant he had previously successfully renewed a dozen times. A colleague who continued the chain soon had a sufficiently high H-index to both become an AGU fellow and be nominated for fellowship in the NAS.

D.N. Baker
P.A. Isenberg
P.J. Chi
R.E. Ergun
J.A. Goldstein
J.E. Borovski
A. Bagenal
(add your name here)

MSIS Atmospheric Model: on your iOS device!

Atmospheric Model on your iOS device

Kudos to Al Hedin, who for several decades now has been the leader of a project to make the most comprehensive model of the atmosphere from the surface to the the exosphere (e.g. 500 km altitude). I never thought pouring over the MSIS FORTRAN code as a grad student that someday I would have (not only!) a phone in my pocket but one that could run that model, which needed a DEC VAX to compile (yup, pre-PC/Mac).

My new favourite iPhone app! This free app will be a useful professional, student and outreach tool.

Ouch! From @theAGU #EOS: #EnvironmentCanada Cuts Threaten the Future of Science & International Agreements #ozone

Top American Atmospheric Scientists conclude:

We are concerned, in light of the Environment Canada budget cuts, that the international community may no longer be able to rely on the exceptional efforts and past leadership role provided by Canada for Arctic research. 

The Harper government is turning it's back on Canada's "True North" stewardship by implementing draconian cuts to ozone science that will not allow Canada to fulfil several international treaties it is party to including the Montreal protocol (how ironic!) and the US-Canada Air Quality agreement.

Download the article from AGU's EOS Transactions Newsletter here (pdf).

Any #agu11 Pranksters out there? inre: Deeply insightful abstract... - Geologic Froth

via geologicfroth.com

Thanks to Kyle House for bringing this to my attention: http://geologicfroth.com/deeply-insightful-abstract#. This kind of behaviour should be encouraged as a trade off for getting an 8 am Monday talk and a 1600 Friday poster in the same meeting!

Crow log supplemental (30 Sept 11):

Show this to Mrs. Sica who just started singing? Is this a mid-west thing, here's Lonzo and Oscar in 1948 (good ol' youtube):

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