How to Read my Blog

In case it isn't completely obvious, here is a brief guide to the posts I have added to this blog.


We were told to categorise the posts on our blogs but it seems that this isn't easy to do in blogger. Instead, I have opted for pages whose order should be read from left to right. So for example, the following picture illustrates all the posts available on my blog as of today:

The pages are ordered from left to right, so the earliest is Home and the newest is Page 1 - How Oil is formed.

I might change some of the titles slightly so that they are more illustrative of what each post is about.

Blogger Deleted My Posts

There was a slight moment of panic when I managed to delete half of the posts I had made in previous weeks. Fortunately the cache on Google search had copies of them so they aren't gone forever. It seems to be a case of Google giveth and Google taketh away, to paraphrase slightly.

Maria wanted to us to separate our blogs into different categories: coding, research etc, so I am trying to do that before reposting stuff.

It seems that blogger doesn't let you move posts to different pages though which seems completely ridiculous, but anyway...

Welcome!

As part of our web design module we have to produce a blog about our experiences, so here goes nothing!

First off, I shall say welcome to my fellow science communicators and anyone else who may have stumbled across this blog. I hope you enjoy reading what I have to say.

The aim of the web design module is to produce a functional website using the web development program Dreamweaver and the graphical editing program Photoshop. The remit for our websites is pretty wide - the site should speak as a piece of online science communication, but beyond that it can be about anything at all. Therefore, one of my first priorities is to come up with something interesting but also science-y to base my site on.

This blog will discuss the technical issues I encounter as I set up my website but I felt that it would also be a good place to talk about the content of my site. And so to the name of my blog: Shaw Offshore - Life in the Seismic Industry. As many of my class mates are aware, before I quit and joined the Science Communication course at Imperial, I worked offshore on seismic survey vessels for about 3 1/2 years. During that time I worked for 2 different companies on 5 different vessels, visiting countries as diverse as Greenland, India, Namibia and Norway. I think this qualifies as both Science-y and interesting, don't you?

My intention is to produce a brief introduction to the science involved in Seismic Exploration, while also relating some of my experiences of working offshore. To whet your appetite, here's a pic of me looking manly in my PPE (Personal Protective Equipment, for those of you not familiar with the lingo) :