He was studying mesons (quark-antiquark pairs)! He built a meson telescope in the Bartol Research Foundation building (now Papazian) the (northern hemisphere) summer after he graduated, and then took it to Antarctica for a (southern hemisphere) winter. And then stopped doing physics and went to grad school for math. :-)
I can see how winter in Antarctica might convince one that math was a better profession...
My dad's cruise is part of an ongoing program of global ocean measurement, measuring stuff like salinity, temperature, etc. Questions like "are the oceans getting warmer and what's up with dissolved CO2 levels", if they're giving the elevator pitch, or "is this current of water at x depth over here in fact turning into this other mass of water down here", if you want my suspicion of what they geek out about.
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Date: 2011-02-15 08:53 pm (UTC)What was your dad doing?
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Date: 2011-02-15 09:32 pm (UTC)What's your dad's research cruise about?
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Date: 2011-02-16 03:39 am (UTC)My dad's cruise is part of an ongoing program of global ocean measurement, measuring stuff like salinity, temperature, etc. Questions like "are the oceans getting warmer and what's up with dissolved CO2 levels", if they're giving the elevator pitch, or "is this current of water at x depth over here in fact turning into this other mass of water down here", if you want my suspicion of what they geek out about.