March: more bad professional news from 2023 efforts, Canada trip, Wānaka climbing, and start of the Whanganui River Journey
10 Apr 2024
In from Sydney, out to Vancouver, with a hike in the middle, and some research and service.
Trip report: Whanganui Journey—five days canoeing on the Whanganui river
8 Apr 2024
Great Walk #9: not a walk at all, but a 145km canoe trip down the Whanganui River, with gentle rapids. We got there using public transit.
February: Travers-Sabine; and, entering NZ at the start and leaving NZ at the end
11 Mar 2024
In from Sydney, out to Vancouver, with a hike in the middle, and some research and service.
Trip report: refereeing in Abbotsford, Edmonton, and a quick trip to Toronto/Waterloo
10 Mar 2024
March has two Canadian circuit judo tournaments: Pacific International and Edmonton International. I also stopped by Waterloo for two days and took care of some business.
January: Nelson, Wellington, other Nelson, and Sydney
14 Feb 2024
I’m really not experiencing large blocks of unstructured time right now, particularly with all the reviewing I’m doing. But it is true that I don’t have any teaching to prepare, at least.
In any case, I haven’t had time to write the January report, or a report on all of 2023, having been in Sydney and then almost immediately onto the Travers-Sabine Circuit in early February. Well, February is only half over! Though at this rate I should start the March report.
Review: On Cold Iron by Dan Levert
11 Feb 2024
About the history of engineering: the Canadian Iron Ring Ceremony and the Quebec Bridge disaster.
December: taking all the courses
4 Jan 2024
Travel month with Wilderness First Responder and Avalanche Skills Training 2, and Christmas in Montreal.
November: almost entirely staying put in Wellington
7 Dec 2023
PLDI submission and trip to New Caledonia. Just the routine.
Review: The Last Front Line by Brendan O'Dwyer
14 Nov 2023
How the sausage is made: Brendan O’Dwyer writes about building the Paparoa Great Walk on NZ’s West Coast.
October: NSERC Discovery Grant writing, and refereeing in Canada
5 Nov 2023
Mostly working on a NSERC Discovery Grant application and travelling to referee in Winnipeg and Scarborough, with a stop in Waterloo.
