Who is Mrs. Sippi?

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

Like all nine-banded armadillos, she is tenacious and a very good digger with a great nose (a.k.a. olfactory system). Mrs. Sippi digs up scientific information and does her best to summarize it in no-nonsense language. She mainly does that in her spare time.

Mrs. Sippi started the Mariana Trench pages years ago because she noticed that this topic - the deepest location on the planet - fascinates many people. For her, it was all triggered by an AGU session convened by her boss. Dr. Hideto Takami of JAMSTEC was one of the contributors to that session. The Kaiko pictures are his!

The Black Sea pages used to be at savetheblacksea.org. Mrs. Sippi's 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).

Mrs. Sippi also wants to have a blog or guestbook on which YOU are invited to leave your thoughts. Oh, and she's also in Second Life. She's Armadilla Latte there. She likes lattes, so.

A few facts

Mrs. Sippi's boss is a Dutch earth and life science specialist who used to live in the States. She is currently based in England, but operates globally.

VAT registration number: GB 860 7699 81

SmarterScience holds bank accounts in The Netherlands and the U.K.

For more information about SmarterScience and Mrs. Sippi's boss, Angelina Souren (the real author of the content on this site, of course), see SmarterScience's business site.

When Mrs. Sippi's boss discovered that the business site was considered a site about the Mariana Trench by the search engines, she started smarterscience.net with the intention of being able to direct the right visitor group to the right web site and not for example have them get lost in discussions of cyanide biogeochemistry and what not.

Curiously enough, as a result, the Mariana Trench pages now appear to be dropping out of google! I think that is because so many sites still have not updated their Mariana Trench links. However, the number of pages viewed per visit has gone up on both sites and is higher on this site, so my boss did do the right thing.

The site marterscience.com - which contains articles and gems - may also be of interest to some visitors of the site you are looking a, however.

This is a SmarterScience web site.

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Most recent update: April 30, 2008