What is a typical day like?
- Get up...get dressed...eat
- Get my daughters dressed, ready for school, and walk them to school
- Drive to the lab
- Check my email, phone messages
- Answer questions at Ask the Space Scientist
- Work on writing a grant proposal to get money for next-years research, or write observing proposals to get new data at a telescope
- Have lunch...usually at my desk or outside in the sun
- Work on a current research project. Usually this means working on one of several hundred different steps in going from raw data, to something my colleagues and I can interpret
- and/or...consult with collaborators on the current research
- and/or...Attend meetings and lab-sponsored colloquia where I get to hear about other people's research projects
- and/or...write or edit an article or paper
- and/or...respond to a Referee's comments about a paper my colleagues and I had submitted to a professional journal
- Thinking or daydreaming about research I would much rather be doing than what I am actually doing
- Drive home
- Help with dinner, homework, clean up the house
- Get my daughters ready for bed
- Sleep
- Dream