Hi Chris,

Thanks for the details. I absolutely love the astronomy information as that was my first love in science. I am always amazed at the new toys and adventures that are being created. They don't seem to have the same budget shortfalls that geo-scientists are enduring.

Then my next port of call is Technophysics. I've found that very interesting, then followed by seismology and paleoseismology. But it takes a rigorous schedule to fit in all of the things you want to see and of course there is always a conflict as to what you want to see and the timing issue. Don and I faced that several times at the Fall AGU convention. So we had to go from room to room in the middle of lectures to catch the people and topics we wanted to learn about.

I hope you had a wonderful time. I'm so jealous.

Petra