Patrick Lam

Thoughts and travels of Patrick Lam

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.