PHD in Poland
Some photos from Planet Head Day in Poland. The event had 50 shaved heads and several hundred participants altogether. As with our PHD in Maine, the event quickly outgrew the science museum and moved to a gymnasium. These are pictures of the start (major VIPs, which includes me).
PHD in Poland
Among the shaved heads is my research colleague Jakub Witkowski, who just lost his mother-in-law to cancer, 2nd from left. The second picture is of students from a local maritime academy. The head-painting is nowhere near as accurate as we do – a tradition of accuracy-in-planet-painting started by Jeanie of course – and then EVERYONE sports a set of Saturn rings, which I guess has become the tradition here.
PHD in Poland
They shaved and painted the heads in sets before the audience, to the accompaniment of a jazz band – maybe a new idea for us.
Mc and Harwood
During the week of PHD, my research colleague Dave Harwood from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln came to Szczecin to work with Jakub and I on our projects. Dave and I have co-authored a host of papers, I count maybe ten altogether with more coming. He is a diatom specialist, but also interested in the early (Cretaceous) history as I am (Dave has always been the one to bring new-and-very-unusual silicoflagellates to my attention.