I'm starting to get really excited about this summer. I have no idea how I'm goign to get any work done and I have two proposals to write so that I can try to have some income next year but I am going to do some fun stuff!

Out of 150 applicants I was accepted as one of 40 to spend 2 weeks in Iceland for the Nordic NASA summer program: Water, Ice and the Origin of Life in the Universe
This is my last real chance to qualify for these sorts of things as you usually need to be a grad student or in your first two years of a post-doc so I just scraped in. Basically, NASA is paying for me to spend two weeks in Iceland studying life in in extreme environments (read: hot springs). From the schedule it looks as if we will spend a bit of time in the classroom, but quite a bit of time on excursions to springs and geologic phenomena in the region. I was looking at the list of things I'd like to do while there and most of it we do with the field class. The only thin perhaps we don't do that is sort of a must for me is to go north of the Arctic Circle. So I need to figure out how to get a car and do that. This is going to be so cool. I can't wait!

Later in the summer I will be doing some more biogeochem with Everett Shock's group in Yellowstone. I really enjoyed this last summer and am looking forward to it again.

I also have some trips home planned for Anusara Immersion and I am hoping to join Jeff Labor Day weekend for a yoga hike into the Grand Canyon.

Not to mention getting my trip for Australia planned for early October.

I will be busy, but am so looking forward to this!