Three atmospheric physics graduate students from the New Mexico Tech physics department and I participated in the Second Split Workshop on Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics on the island of Brac, near Split, Croatia during May 2010. The workshop was organized by New Mexico Tech physics graduate and assistant professor of physics at the University of Split, Zeljka Fuchs. The workshop consisted of lectures by eminent atmospheric and oceanic scientists along with presentations of projects by graduate students working with the attending scientists. The senior scientists were encouraged to present talks on the research currently closest to their heart and the student projects were generally related to this research.
As may be seen below, the site of the workshop, the hotel Pastura in the fishing village of Postira on Brac, was splendid! This is a view from our hotel.
University of Split graduate student Sanda Divanovic and University of Zagreb student Stipo Sentic worked with me on a project having to do with the dependence of atmospheric convection on environmental conditions.
Though everybody at the meeting worked hard, we had a little time to enjoy the locale. Shown below at dinner are Tech physics grad students Mike Herman and Saska Gjorgjievska on the left and Tech student Jorge Cisneros on the far right. Also enjoying the evening are recent PhD Julia Palamarchuk from Odessa, Ukraine and senior lecturer Antonio Parodi from Genoa, Italy.
Mid-week we took an excursion across the sound to the mainland town of Omis, a medieval stronghold on the Adriatic coast at the mouth of the Cetina river.
We all have Zeljka (shown below in front of her husband Jurica and son Martin) to thank for organizing this wonderful workshop and expect that links made here will blossom into full-fledged collaborations. We also acknowledge the generous support from the Croatian government, which made this workshop possible.
Further information on the workshop can be found at its website.
Dave Raymond