I like Progress in Oceanography , as you can tell from my earlier Blog: Introducing Progress in Oceanography (IF: 3.582) . I noticed some progress, such as the Just-in-time de ...
My first English paper was published in Progress in Oceanography in 1992, as a co-author. My adviser chose the journal because: 1) our paper was long, and 2) there was no page charge. I still remember the calls from England, with strong British accent: Miss. Y(o)u? And pages ...
I was at a Tenfu teashop in Qingdao, and tasted some inexpensive product of Tie Guanyin Tea (Iron Goddess). I liked it enough to bring some samplers back for my colleagues and friends in Hawaii. One colleague was serious enough about tea and asked me how it sho ...
Japan always impresses me, a short-term visitor. We know that Japan is small, compared to US or China. Space is clearly an issue. Many Japanese use public transportation routinely. When my girlfriend came to the Narita Airport to pick me up many years ago, I immediately noticed how empty the ex ...
According to NOAA, the seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is still safe to eat, where the oil spill has been ongoing since April 20, 2010. The news link is at NOAA: Gulf seafood tested so far is safe to eat It says: NOAA and the Food and Drug Administration began catching seafoo ...
I like to eat fish, but I hate to clean fish. To look back at my childhood, cleaning fish in winter would top my most-hated-things to do. After not cooking for three weeks due to travel, I decided to grill some salted fish. The akule at downtown Costco looked like th ...