I am in New York (Long Island) tonight staying at Brookhaven National Lab. They have dormitories within the campus. I haven’t stayed in a communal shower/bathroom since Ben and I went to Yosemite two years ago. I didn’t bring shower shoes or shampoo so I may be roughing it until Sunday (when I leave to go to Waterville Valley, New Hampshire).
This is my schedule for the ACCESS (http://www.bnl.gov/accessx/default.asp) conference.
Friday, Breakfast at 7:30 am.
Talks start at 8:30 until 5:30 pm. People from EPA, NASA, DOE, and NOAA will be talking about funding opportunities and all the students/postdocs attending are giving 15 minute talks. My talk isn’t until Saturday morning because we’re going in alphabetical order. There are about 25 students/postdocs. They call us “emerging senior scientists.”
Tomorrow night, they are taking us to Lotus II East for dinner tomorrow night in Long Island. (http://www.yelp.com/biz/lotus-east-ii-restrnt-mount-sinai)
Saturday, breakfast at 7:30 am, talks (me sometime between 8:30 am and 10 am) until noon. Then we’re supposed to take a bus into New York city and eat dinner at the Roxy Deli on Broadway. They don’t pick us up till 10:45 pm so I’m not sure how long it takes to eat at this deli. NYC will probably be scary and crazy on a Saturday night but I will stick with the group, for my own safety.
Sunday, I’m supposed to take a bus at 8:30 am to Paumanok Vinyards at Aqueboque, NY (I don’t think I can drink wine at 9 am) and then take a ferry from Orient Point to New London, Connecticut. From there, we will drive to Waterville Valley, where hopefully they don’t have communal showers. The rooms are nice here–very simple and old, but relatively clean. A few bugs but not any worse than my apartment in Baltimore. Nothing to complain about though because all my meals and travel expenses were paid for. It’s like a free vacation (where they feed me propaganda about becoming an atmospheric scientist).
