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I JUST SUBMITTED MY THESIS!!

Matt Herod August 13, 2015 Miscellany 5 Comments

As you may have gathered from my enthusiastic title I just submitted my thesis! After 6 years of hard work it’s been passed in. To celebrate I decided to make this really cool word cloud showing the most frequently occurring words in the thesis, which currently contains a total of 55,713 words. The bigger the font the more common the word. As you may notice 129I occurs a lot, 1,220 times to be exact, since it is the topic of the entire thing.

Here is a pic of the whole thing ready to turn in to the grad studies office. Now that this thing is done hopefully I’ll be able to get back to blogging a little more frequently. Actually, I have ideas for several posts saved up including summaries of a few of my thesis chapters.

By the way, I lied above. I’m going to get a beer to celebrate. Cheers!

By Matt Herod

Matt Herod is a Ph.D Candidate in the Department of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa in Ontario, Canada. His research focuses on the geochemistry of iodine and the radioactive isotope iodine-129. His work involves characterizing the cycle and sources of 129I in the Canadian Arctic and applying this to long term radioactive waste disposal and the effect of Fukushima fallout. His project includes field work and lab work at the André E. Lalonde 3MV AMS Laboratory. Matt blogs about any topic in geology that interests him, and attempts to make these topics understandable to everyone. Tweets as @GeoHerod.

5 Comments

Sam Morton August 13, 2015, 5:18 pm

Awesome! Congrats Matt!!
Barbara Ferreira August 18, 2015, 2:08 pm

Congratulations Matt! Well done. Love the word cloud!
- Matt Herod August 24, 2015, 3:14 pm
  
  Thanks Barbara!
Amel Barich August 21, 2015, 6:24 pm

Congratulations Matt! I’m depositing in a couple of months too. Awesome word cloud!
- Matt Herod August 24, 2015, 3:14 pm
  
  Thanks! Good luck on the final stretch!

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The term geosphere is an all-encompassing word that incorporates just about every aspect of the earth sciences. This means that topics ranging from geophysics to geochemistry to geobiology are part of the geosphere. The blog Geosphere honours its namesake by covering any and every topic in the geosciences. The principal goal of Geosphere and its author, Matt Herod, is to make science clear for anyone that should stumble in and enhance awareness of the geosphere for all. With this in mind I encourage any who have questions to post, comment or email me.