Oh Vienna, home to so many dessert options. No sooner did I get off the plane and drop my bags in the hotel, did I find myself in the hotel bar enjoying the first of many cakes for the week.
The reason I found myself in Vienna was of course for the annual European Geological Union meeting. We Americans can't usually spend the funds to attend this meeting with any regularity. So those few times when we are invited to attend for a special session, it is a real treat. In this case, there was a session on Microstructures and Deformation Mechanisms in Ice, which received a little bit of funding from Micro-DICE in order to bring together researchers from around the world to compare notes and talk about what we are doing.
After the "madness", we all stood in front of big touch screens to navigate and host our interactive poster. Although the content for an interactive poster involves many, many interlinking powerpoint pages (mine had 30 pages; the "sample" they sent us had 60!!) and was incredibly time-consuming to prepare, I kind of liked it. It was challenging to come up with this new, non-linear way of presenting data. I think it is probably going to be the wave of the future, with posters able to be navigated in our absence, so it was fun to be an early user. And since the session was on Monday, that left me time to enjoy the rest of the meeting and even sneak out a bit to see some of Vienna. Of course, that included a bit (read: heaping mounds) of the local cuisine.
And did I mention the desserts? So many desserts.
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