Alright Sherlock, deduce.

Well, now that I have the majority of my results it is time for me to interpret what they mean! So essentially I am stretching those lean detective muscles I’ve gained through watching so many crime shows in my 23 years. Deerstalker hat, magnifying glass and pipe at the ready; its time to get to ...

Proper Legend Bai

An essential part of scientific writing is to produce figures and tables that can be plucked out of your research and still make sense. With figures like maps that means you need to include a good legend to show the reader what’s what! In an ideal world this is easy. But when my computer and ...

Out of the fire, into Japan

Out of the fire, into Japan
Its no surprise to anyone that knows me for more than a few hours that it is a dream of mine to go to Japan. Naturally, if you plonk me within a five hour flight to the country I’m going to pounce on the chance to go. So I went a little AWOL this weekend! ...

Rice and shine!

Vietnam has three distinct growth seasons for rice (Kontgis et al., 2019): Đông xuân — Winter/Spring — Planting occurs in November and the rice is harvested in February. Hè thu — Summer/Autumn — Planting occurs in March and the rice is harvested in June/July. Mùa thu — Autumn/Winter — This is considered the main season. ...

You’ve arrived at Panic Station

Welcome aboard, I will be your conductor today! Two things have recently occurred to me: I have four weeks left. I have a colossal mountain of work to do. This is the point where I fly or fall. So I am really going to have to dig my heels in acquiring the rest of the ...

Released into the Wild

Released into the Wild
This week marks the week I was finally set free from the office for a few days to visit some AWD sites! While tipping away at the data I have been given so far I began to think it was a bit daft of me to come in an talk about rice while never having ...