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2011 Blogging Scholarship Update- New voting, new rules!

Last night, I received an e-mail that there had been some irregularity in the voting of the blogging challenge, and so the voting script had to be rewritten. The good news is that the new voting mechanisms is more secure, you can now vote once per day, and voting has been […]

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How to pack for a conference

I’m in Bern, Switzerland, attending the International Quaternary Association’s 18th Congress. INQUA convenes every four years, and this will be my first time attending. It’s the largest meeting for those of us who study the Quaternary Period, and includes paleoecologists, archaeologists, paleoclimatologists, geologists, and geomorphologists– I believe there are about […]

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