More photos are now online from my latest adventures.
These include my trip to Vienna .
I went for the European Geosciences Union General Assembly, a scarily big general science conference where I gave a talk on mercury and a poster on metals over the sea . I also ran away for a bit to go see the big wheel and eat nice cake, and go on a tram ride in a circle as recommended by Howard.

A day or so after that it was off to Taipei for another conference, this one was the International Conference on Evolution, Transfer and Release of Magmas and Volcanic Gases. It was two days of talks then three days of sightseeing. We had dinner at Taipei 101 which was/is the world's tallest building.
Sadly we ate on the 5th floor not at the top, but we did go to the top which took about 40 seconds and was a very cool journey.


The field trip meant we got to see geologists getting excited over rocks which is always good.


We also went to a tea town which involved several hours of being fed very nice green and oolong tea almost continually. Even I had to turn it down by the end of the day.


A few of us stayed on and did some fieldwork, measuring Hg and other gases coming out of the fumaroles at Tatun in Yangmingshan National Park.


After this me and Jane went onto the Philippines to do some more field work there with Mahar Lagmay.

It seems to have gone well and now I have many many graphs to plot and ponder.