In Paris

Ack is visiting Paris, at a conference on three satellite missions, CALIPSO and CloudSat being two of them - we sponsored that meeting back in 2009.  A couple of photos of the conference...

The reception was held Monday at the Universite Peirre et Marie Curie - on the 24th floor. That is a view of Notre Dame.

This view shows the Tower

The conference is being held at the Institut Océanographique. The lecture room has murals dating 1910. Yes, they are harpooning a whale, I guess that is how they studied marine animals then.

And this is in the front of the lecture all, so if you get bored you can inspect the painting. Check out what is happening on the left of the painting.