UBC

I thought I'd share with you a little about the my place of work. UBC is found to the far west of Vancouver (any further and you'd fall in the sea...) The campus is surrounded by woodland and parks (Pacific Spirit Regional Park and the University Endowment Lands) which makes the journey there quite picturesque - especially if one takes the route along NW Marine Drive which takes in the north shore mountains (to the north) and the mouth of the Burrard Inlet (...to the north...)

Campus itself is rather pretty, and the department where I work has just moved in to a new building. From the fifth floor, one can look out over to Vancouver Island (when the weather is good...)

Seen on campus

My boss, Mark, is currently away on Sabbatical in Boulder, Colorado. Whilst he's away, his PhD student Kathi and I are squatting in his office.

However, the majority of my time is spent in the lab - a new facility in the newly completed earth science building. It's the most massive space in which I've ever worked - 6 m high and about 8 by 20 m. We've even got a crane to move things around, should the need arise. It's a great place in which to do experiments, especially water based ones as there are trench drains running along both sides of the room: if ever we spill something on the floor, we just get the hoses out and wash it away!

The aftermath of one of my experiments.