Welcome to Mrs. Sippi's SmarterScience web site

Who is Welcome to Mrs. Sippi's SmarterScience web site?

I, Mrs. Armadilla Sippi, am a nine-banded armadillo from the United States. I have been working as a logo for SmarterScience - a consultancy specialized in earth and life sciences - since 1997.

Like all nine-banded armadillos, I am tenacious and a very good digger with a great nose (a.k.a. olfactory system). I dig up scientific information and do my best to summarize it in no-nonsense language. I mainly do that in her spare time, so it's a slow process. Cut me some slack!

Mariana Trench

I started the Mariana Trench pages years ago because I noticed that this topic - the deepest location on the planet - fascinates many people.

In fact, blame my boss! It was all triggered by an AGU conference session convened by my boss. Dr. Hideto Takami of JAMSTEC was one of the contributors to that session. The Kaiko pictures are his!

My boss created some pages that had also interesting stuff for scientists, but she discovered that a lot of other people liked these pages. We often got e-mails about them, too. (Especially when there was a silly virus around, we would get lots of mails, ha ha!)

Donations

Donations to support this site are welcome. The button below is for donations in Euros:

This one is for dollars:

British pounds would be welcome too:

Black Sea

The Black Sea pages used to be at savetheblacksea.org. My boss started those pages on 1 October 2002, after a conversation with Ties van Kempen of TACIS (technical assistance to the Black Sea Environment Programme BSEP).

Blog and stuff

I also have a blog. YOU are welcome to leave your thoughts there! I wandered around in Second Life for a while, but discovered that it took up too much time. I was Armadilla Latte there. I likes lattes, so... My boss is more into cappuccinos and espressos, in case you wonder.

A few boring facts

My boss is a Dutch earth and life science specialist who used to live in the States. She is currently based in England, but works for people all over the world. Sounds pretty dull but the gal used to work in tourism and yakyak in all sorts of languages, so she is not that bad, frankly.

When my boss discovered that the search engine saw the business site as a site about the Mariana Trench, she started smarterscience.net.

She wanted to direct the right visitor group to the right web site and not for example have people looking for general information about the Mariana Trench or the Black Sea get lost in detailed discussions of cyanide biogeochemistry.

The other site - smarterscience.com - contains articles and gems and may also be of interest to some visitors.