"MaryL" <stancole1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Howard Lester" <hlester@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "Frieda" wrote
>>
>>> How many days to go before the BIG DAY?
>>
>> TWO, Frieda! :-) Today is a special day, though: I've reached the
>> magic 30 year mark. The next two days are "courtesy" days... fini****ng
>> working out the week. I've already cleaned out and taken home most of
my
>> belongings; I'm almost ready!
>>
>
> I missed the earlier messages, but it looks like we made the same
> life-changing decision...except that mine came later in life. I retired
> at the August after 41 years of teaching at the same university. The
> department chair asked if I would teach a couple of cl***** as an
adjunct,
> and I may do that. He said I could set my own schedule and pick my own
> cl*****..."anything you want, he said." So, that sounds pretty good.
The
> pay isn't very good for an adjunct, but it would be only part-time and
> supplement my retirement income. And I could continue to use my skills
> (such as they are).
>
> MaryL
You could use that as an op****tunity to get the students to start
participating in the bird-related newsgroups.
Also, you might want to tell the students about some of the distributed
computing projects, likely to affect birds, such as:
http://climateprediction.net/
There's also a climate-related project here, but currently inactive:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
This one maintains a database comparing all the proteins they can find
enough information on, including those found in birds, but is typically
active only about a week each month:
http://boinc.bio.wzw.tum.de/boincsimap/
The ones interested in helping medical research may want to look
at these:
http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/
http://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/
http://www.malariacontrol.net/
These allow you to run programs in the background on your computer,
but at a lower priority than what you start yourself. They all use BOINC,
which allows a computer to help more than one of them without
interference.
Many, but not all, of the teams are set up for people at specific
universities, so you may want to mention which of them have a team
for your university, or look for a team meant for birdwatchers in
general.
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