To answer the question a couple of you have asked this morning, yes I did indeed survive the celebratory festivities yesterday just fine. I was out a bit late, and didn’t get ‘to’ work until about 9:30, but it was well worth it. I’m delighted to report that my friend Andrew is now Dr. Andrew, owner of a shiny new PhD. It’s very humbling to see someone defend a thesis that they’ve evolved over years<\/i> rather than months or weeks. The thesis, in this case, was that the acid rock drainage from years of anthropogenic (a big science word meaning: ’caused by humans’) environmental interference in the Snake river watershed – mining activities, principally – has a dramatically negative impact on downstream ecosystems. This thesis was proven out by a raft of data and some experimentation in which trout were stocked in experimental and reference areas and monitored pretty much continuously over a 10 day period. <\/p>\n
While academia is still a very strange world to me, possessed as it is of very different customs to the business environment I’ve occupied since the day I gradutated from school, I can’t help but be pleased at yesterday’s outcome. So I just wanted to say to Andrew: congrats buddy, and now that you have a bit of freetime, get blogging \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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