Monday, November 28, 2011

Billions of years of conference badges

ASI was lucky enough to be the lanyard sponsor at the recent Biennial Geochemical SIMS workshop, held in Hawaii at the beginning of this month. The meeting was fantastic. But rather than do the usual slog of simply plastering our logo on the lanyard, we decided to give it a geological timescale. The scale is one year per angstrom. Various important events are designated by the isotopic system used to define them and/or cartoons. Being very long and skinny, it is hard to display in a blog, but here’s a photo of one curled up (click to enlarge).


We have some extras, so if anyone wants me to bring some to AGU for you guys to wear, let me know and I'll pack some.
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6 comments:

  1. Jessica Ball29 November, 2011 00:07

    Ooh, yes. I'd like one. Very neat!

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  2. Silver Fox29 November, 2011 01:28

    You should bring those as giveaways to other meetings you have a booth at (then maybe I'll get one, too).

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  3. Isotopic29 November, 2011 01:38

    Can you publish a key? I was showing mine to someone here and couldn't figure out what some of the symbols meant.

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  4. C W Magee29 November, 2011 09:17

    A key to the isotopes or the cartoons?
    From youngest to oldest, the cartoons are:
    comet
    dinosaur
    dragonfly
    fern
    trilobyte
    Ediacarian Thingo
    snowball earth
    natural fission reactor
    snowball earth
    iron
    stromatolite
    comet
    moon.

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  5. Mika29 November, 2011 14:10

    ...and now I'm even more sad I won't be at AGU! If I post enough pretty fieldwork photos, can I bribe you into dropping one in the mail? Because that's a very cool concept!

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  6. C W Magee29 November, 2011 21:51

    No booth this year, BTW. I'm just going to give my talk and hob nob.

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