Mrs. Sippi’s Blog

More information about possible ongoing eruption in NE Lau Basin is available on my boss’s blog.

BBC started its new series “Oceans” on BBC 2 at 8pm on November 12. Repeated every Wednesday, eight times.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/oceans/

http://www.bbcshop.com/Science+Nature/Oceans-DVD/invt/bbcdvd2890

You’ll probably enjoy NBC’s Breakfast TV show with Alvin, Chris German and others of 10 November 2008. (Thanks for the tip, Chris.) Alternatively, go to: www.whoi.edu and click on the link “Ann goes to the bottom of the sea”.

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Don’t forget to look at the Black Sea pages! Has gorgeous pictures!!!! (Did you notice the images of the top of this page? Cool, huh?)

They’re a courtesy (and property!) of Alexander Vershinin, a Russian scientist who won a prestigious prize for all the great stuff he does!

A while ago, someone asked me a question about the Mariana Trench that made clear to me that the scale of such features is not clear to any of you who aren’t geologists. I will add some info about scale to the Mariana Trench pages later (within a few weeks’ time).

Btw, New Guinea is more or less part of Indonesia. I think that politically, it is not and I think its official name is Irian Jaya. A friend of my boss did a lot of geological fieldwork there. A good library generally also has atlases in which you can look up all sorts of wonderful and even not so wonderful places.

Someone else asked about life in the Mariana Trench. That is partly covered on the page about the biology of the Mariana Trench. There’s even life on the bottom!

She did it!!!

Took my boss a little while. (She doesn’t know php but does know common sense and has done some programming, a lifetime ago. And she does write her own html. Yes, people, she is one of those who still writes sites in Notepad. Yay!)

Time is NOT 11:11, obviously.

1, 2, 3

Here goes.

Now let’s test if she also fixed the time.