Anne Thompson in Chile, November 21-28 2004

Thanks to FONDECYT international we had the estimulating and enchanting visit of Dr. Anne Thompson from NASA/Goddard Flight Center.

• Nov 21-22. Anne participated in a workshop in which we reviewed the research we are involved in, particularly that related to ozone in the Southern Subtropics, but also about inverse modeling, radiative transfer, parallel computing.... During that workshop she gave a couple of detailed presentations about SHADOZ and the art of measuring ozone in our atmosphere.
• Nov 23. We visited the station at Tololo and the astronomic observatory of Cerro Pachón (amazing too!!). After lunch under the sun, Anne gave an open lecture at the University of La Serena.
• Nov 24. Anne and the Santiago team flew back to the south, i.e., from 30S to 33.5S...we started discussing the data collected over the years at Rapa Nui and Tololo
• Nov. 25. We kept discussing the data ...what to write about? How to combine Rapanui and Shadoz?...In the afternoon, Anne gave a talk at the Center for Mathematical Modeling
• Nov. 26. We defined our common papers...analyzed the data, including the first complete ozone sounding that meanwhile had been collected at Vicuña by Ana María, Martin et al.
• Nov. 27-28...We discussed, in addition to science, the meaning of life and the sense of Nerudian poetry..."El océano Pacífico es tan grande, tan grande que no supieron dónde meterlo y lo dejaron frente a mi ventana...habría dicho Neruda en La Sebastiana".

Talks

• La Serena
• Santiago

Interview

Happy Anne at Cerro Tololo