Acronyms in Science

This week, a SGO¹ delegation has been spending a couple of days in Oulu. Objectives: sort out study requirement issues for PhD students, discuss about optical measurements, visit the mathematics department, spend a day to brainstorm ideas for the ongoing science projects and even take a course. 

Waiting for the green light

In the process, we inherited an old instrument which will certainly make a blog post on its own in the near future and we visited the SGO Oulu group.

STILL TIME FOR SCIENCE

We dedicated the whole yesterday to discuss Derek's and my PhD projects, as all three involved supervisors were present. Many burning issues – such as ECTS² credits harvesting, follow-up group meetings, DTP³ and PSP⁴ submission – have been clarified, and still, we had time to discuss about science. I dare say that it was quite a fruitful day.

Among the science topics, Derek presented very exciting results about riometer interferometry using the LBA⁵ array of KAIRA⁶, while I introduced the radio-occultation model on which I have been working and about which I am about to submit my first paper (see picture). We also quite extensively discussed about the ongoing study of the high-latitude ionosphere response to solar wind HSSs⁷. More about these studies and results in the coming weeks' posts.

Today, Derek is taking the Introduction to Doctoral Training course, organised by UniOGS⁸. As we will be heading back to Sodankylä in a few hours, he will follow the afternoon session online via Connect-Pro. Provided the 3G connection will be good enough in the car...



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¹Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory
²European Credits Transfer System
³Doctoral Training Plan
⁴Personal Study Plan
⁵Low-Band Antenna
⁶Kilpisjärvi Atmospheric Imaging Receiver Array
⁷High-Speed Streams
⁸University of Oulu Graduate School