I took this photo in the Strait of Luzon in 2013 looking at the Island of Bataan and the wake of clouds generated from it. Flows over topography are known to generate turbulence. Thankfully, these clouds allowed us to visualize the turbulence that nature can generate. For size comparison, try to see if you can...
On 18th July, I had the opportunity to spend 10 days with other oceanographers on the Research Platform FLIP (https://scripps.ucsd.edu/ships/flip) for a test cruise to study the Langmuir circulation and the near-surface processes. Spending time on FLIP is like living in a large tree house in the middle of the ocean. Even though there were large...
Walking through the some neighborhood of Chennai, India, I have learned that the freshest source of water is delivered by trucks because the ground water there is mildly salty. It seemed like the people here are strongly dependent on the fresh water delivered by these trucks.
Walking through a neighborhood of Chennai, I could find similarity to that of walking through a neighborhood in Vietnam. There was a vendor using his bicycle to transport his tea and snack around to sell to people. A man was delivering tanks of propane on this bicycle. People sit around in front of a scrap...
I could not have been happier to have arrived in India and walked around along the streets and the neighborhoods of Chennai to have met so many kind and happy people. I know that many of these people are not economically well, but they have a wealth of smiles and happiness that made them so...
On the side of the street, one could find small shops selling every items and snacks. You can also find a shop milling grains into flour, or an ironsmith beating and bending bars of iron to make leaf of suspension assembly for trucks. The street of Chennai in the morning was filled with people busy...
Walking on the streets of Chennai, I felt a familiarity to that of walking on the streets of Vietnam. The familiarity began with the street vendors to the mode of transportation as well as to the trash collecting vehicle pulled by a bicycle. Like Vietnam, Chennai has textile shops and tailor shops. The difference was...
In August, 2015, I was in Chennai, India for work. Time was limited but I had the opportunity to walk around the city, through different neighborhoods. I observed the colorful cultures of the people here, their daily lives, and living conditions. I start part 1 with street vendors and guards to show how colorful India is...
