Aaaaannnd after all that last-minute worrying it turned out to be for a written article. Ha! Anyway, it was a great journalist who asked good questions so I'm looking forward to seeing what he writes up!
I even brushed my hair and put on a professor sweater. Headphones or no headphones? Scarf or no scarf? When was I supposed to learn all this stuff about how to present myself on TV?!
A lot of what I've learned about sun dogs (and other super cool rainbowy things you can see in the sky on occasion) comes from this really thorough, beautifully put together website: https://atoptics.co.uk/halo/parhelia.htm
Well, during the podcast interview I got an email asking me to do ANOTHER local news interview. This one is on explaining sun dogs!! My favourite atmospheric optical phenomenon!
Today I have a summer research student starting and I'm going to have to let her in on the (somewhat embarrassing) secret that Fortran is still one of the fastest languages out there for what we need to do, then have her install a fortran compiler. Welcome to the future, student!