Josh Ritter

I am so excited about having found the music of Josh Ritter that it gets a posting front and center. I heard him first on NPR (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7064853 - click on the "Related NPR links" for even more streaming music from Ritter on NPR) and I knew immediately that I was interested in his music. Here is his webpage (http://www.joshritter.com/news.php) and at the bottom left of that page you can download two of his songs for free. They're amazing.

Here, I'm going to link directly to them:
Girl in the War
Thin Blue Flame

another test post - and my yellowstone album

Click on the Yellowstone picture below to be taken to Picasa web albums (no account necessary to view my pictures. Dave (my advisor), Shikha (who runs the isotope lab for Dave), Jessie (a post-doc), and myself went to Yellowstone to sample CO2 coming out of the hydrothermal vents. Click here (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16392871/) to read what MSNBC had to say about it.

Yellowstone 2006

My first blogger post (well, no longer)

This used to be my first blogger post, but I have co-opted this once rambly entry to add pictures from Tahoe, Mojave, Baja California, and Hawaii.

Tahoe, Mojave, Baja, the big island