I finally got around to
posting pictures of the festivities from August 2002. Valerie
and I drove to San Antonio, Texas for the 21st American Meteorological
Society (AMS) Severe Local Storms (SLS) conference. Valerie presented
a paper and poster titled "Using GIS to Compare the May 3,
1999 Oklahoma City Tornado Damage Path to WSR-88D Signatures",
for which she received an award. I presented a paper titled "Increasing
the Usefulness of a Mesocyclone Climatology" (PDF
document, PowerPoint
presentation). Many of our friends and fellow OU students
were there as well and we had a great time hanging out on the
River Walk.
When the conference ended, many of us headed up to Austin for
Paul Janish's Y2K2 weekend of debauchery. We spent a day tubing
down the Guadalupe River near New Braunfels. For dinner that evening,
we drove to an incredible BBQ joint in the middle of nowhere called
The Salt
Lick. I can't explain how incredible their food is. It was
sort of like a religious experience for me! :-)
Photographs
of the missions in San Antonio can be found here.
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