Hi Paul
Actually I did not do too bad. Got half for the first 2 years and a quarter
for the last. The maximum you could ever get is 2/3. I told you I would get
it. It was only you guys who doubted. Will be quite flush if I can find PhDs
to do it. Cam was not interested cos money too low and time too short. I
intend to apply for another next year with Cees Passchier. I thought getting
the 2 opponents on what porphs did together might sell well, the way ARC is
refereed these days. He is is interested. If that one comes off and the
salary is suitable, would you be interested? You would travel back and forth
a few times.
I will be ready indeed in about 1 month to work on the dating foliations
paper. I am writing a structural paper comparing the PT- paths from Pomfret
to Chester in VT. Mind blowingly different and I will present it at the
Peach & Horne Conference in Scotland next May. I would like to have it in
press by then as well. Half the data comes from Mark Rieuwers (the Pomfret
side) and he will use the paper in his PhD. I do not want to hold him up and
he should be submitting around Dec 1 as will Matt Bruce. So I need to get it
finished in about 3 - 4 weeks. Indeed I attach the latest galleys from a
paper I wrote on millipedes with Matt. It has a few galley errors in it but
the guts stays the same. The paper in Geol Soc Am Spec Papers should be out
any day and I am looking forward to seeing peoples reaction to it. I have
started 3 PhDs this year with another arrived (who is doing English for 5
weeks before he starts) and another due any day. So Samri is getting back to
its normal numbers. Samris new quarters are actually pretty good. I think we
did the best of anyone out of the move apart from Nick O. Many of the rest
of the staff got short shrift. Of course it turns out that the ground floor
was not wanted by any one for a very good reason - the fucking
airconditioners outside our window make an appalling racket.
Our central SAMRI tea room area is much much better than we used to have
though. Shifting the SAMRI rock lab was a night mare. Needs a few more days
organizing by me still but are nearly there with it. Our microscope room
needs sorting as well. The ground floor is convenient for all sorts of other
reasons though., I can have my music going full blast (My daughter gave me
an IPOD - 60 GB) I now have 9.5 days of music on it and yet still 4/5 of my
music to rip!
Will let this do for now.
Cheers
Tim
> G'day Tim,
> Good to see you got something back from the ARC ... although I fear not as
> much as hoped, but hell its better than nothin'.
>
> I just got back from the Musgraves. Man is that place remote! Fly into Alice
> Springs, then two days drive southwest along a very restricted aboriginal
> track. Nice rocks, but I couldn't hammer most of them because the aboriginal
> elders who tagged along (and were paid more than me) wouldn't let us. Lots of
> tea to drink since alcohol is forbidden anywhere within 100 miles of the
> place. Nothing like a hard days field work topped off by a nice .... cup of
> tea. You get used to it.
>
> The rocks were excellent. Extremely high grade, dry granulites. Nice mylonites
> as you predicted. I collected some for dating and may show up over there to do
> it on the probe. Also pseudotachylites galore (I suppose more up Tom's alley).
> I swear I found a 20 metre wide one! That quake would've have topped N.
> Korea's.
>
> How are things going over there? Settled in under the new regime? In the next
> few months I may be able to have some input into the foliations paper if you
> want to give it a go.
>
> Paul
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