On Friday 08/03/2019, Laurie Stephey, a postdoc in NERSC, told us about her home state – Florida. Florida: the Sunshine State, the lightning strike capital of the US, and the shark bite capital of the world.
Welcome to our March new postdocs at Berkeley Lab! Download presentation.
On February 22, Fadji Maina, a postdoc in Energy Geosciences Division, told us about her beautiful home country in the talk “Niger, where the savannah meets the desert”.
Surprisingly close to Berkeley lies the Sibley Volcanic Regional Park, where a group of 21 postdocs hiked along the rugged mountain tops, where lava used to be flowing, still visible by the cooled down rocks, partially eroded and partially intact. We even saw a large group of newts and their …
In the morning we will meet with Startup Sandbox (the Santa Cruz QB3-affiliated incubator), as well as with some Santa Cruz biotech companies. After lunch (which will be provided), there is the possibility to join a hike or a leisure beach trip. Please sign up for this opportunity to learn …
Welcome to our February new postdocs at Berkeley Lab! Download presentation.
A new type of activity for BLPA, is a wildlife viewing activity! Point Reyes is home to an elephant seal population, massive 15-feet, 5000-pound seals with an elephant-like trunk. BLPA visited them in January 2019, where we saw them from a safe 200 feet distance. Massive males were lying on …
Water in frozen form is not only below 0 °C or 32 °F or 272 K, as we as postdocs all know, but also slippery and very solid as we experienced! A group of postdocs went out & experienced the feeling of graciously sliding over this frozen substance on thin …
The October hike took BLPA to Castle Rock State Park. We hiked among the big rocks via the Saratoga Gap Trail. We even climbed a few!
