I am not someone who normally goes around expressing pride in public... but this time I take an exception and would like to share with the community the news that I have successfully defended my doctoral dissertation in Atmospheric Sciences at MIT titled, "The Diurnal Cycle of Air Pollution in the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal". Through intensive field measurements in Nepal and three-dimensional computer simulations, I have come to learn some really interesting things about the processes that control the accumulation and ventilation of air pollution in the Kathmandu Valley. I hope to share these with policymakers, the Kathmandu public, and in sajha very soon.

I would like to thank all of you, friends and well wishers in sajha, who have provided me with companionship, humor and thought provoking discussions over the years. And I would also like to announce that I am emerging from the self-imposed hibernation and after some rest will be returning to active participation in the forum here.

Arnico.

It's only nepalese people who can understand if you came up with good conclusions.. you can always fool Khaire Professors of MIT or whatever, by manipulating your numbers, charts or so on. Modeling is specially taht one where you can manipulate a lot. Hooina ta?

Arnico!

Congratulation.

.Arnico,
Congratulations !

Seems, Karma is ustaad in manupulating the simulation results. The NeW Definition of MODELING. Cite it guys !!

Congratulations Dr. Arnico Pandey. Besides your academic accomplishment, I also celebrate your dream to make Nepal a center of world education you had shared in with us a long time ago.

Congratulations.

Dr. Arnico,
Congratulations and best wishes for everything in years ahead of you.
Eagerly waiting to go through the summary of your findings, I remain.

congrats 4 your achievement.

Congratulations! Dr. Pandey.
I will be looking forward to your participation in Sajha and learning more about your work once you are in the field.
I am proud of you and wish to meet you in person some day.
-Shiv

Hey Doc :),

Looking at the thread, I had to (really really.. ;)) extend my congratulations to you. I know you worked really hard for this, and here you are an exemplary figure for the rest of us :). PS: when are u declaring your doctorate in photography? ;) Dont forget our deal..haha :)

La badhai cha. Good luck for your future endeavors too.

Friends. Thank you for your good wishes.

Let me write some short replies to people who asked questions or made specific comments:

Oys, Rbaral and Shiv: I too look forward to actively participating here again.

Isolated Freak: It is hard to know where life will take me. To qualify for a professorship I would need to work hard in one field for many more years...

Sarbasadharan: That is my intention... and the reason I chose to jump through all kinds of hoops to be able to do research in Nepal on a topic that I hoped would be relevant and useful.

Kalekrishna, Karmarana,Vantagepoint and Shiv: It is the policy of my program to make PDF versions of dissertations available online. So... yes, soon you will be able to read it online. Perhaps even before that I plan to write some newspaper articles summarizing key findings. First though, I have to make some minor revisions and double-check some modeling results before turning in the "library" version of the dissertation next week.

lootekukur: that is indeed good news! I have never taken an HIV test...

lonely1: I shall stay at MIT for a year doing a post-doc (OPT) while I wait for my wife to finish her studies. Hopefully that year will provide an opportunity not just for writing journal papers, but also for catching up on my interests and skills beyond the narrow field of my graduate study (including a better understanding of Nepali history and politics) and for building the networks needed for work i hope to do in Nepal in the future.

Ashu, thanks for your kind words; you do know that I don't share your assessment of me...

Kalankisthan (will you call yourself loktantrasthan now?): yes let's meet for a beer or a cup of tea next time we're in the same town!

paradoxnemesis: I agree that the nation has bigger problems; I don't pretend to be better than others... I just wanted to share some good news with my friends here.

Karmarana: I did not mean to be bragging, but I appreciate your concern, and I will be more careful of my wording in the future. I mentioned that I learned interesting things... I will wait for papers to pass the peer review process before declaring any findings to be fact. I especially appreciate feedback from people who do understand the meteorology, geography, and traffic patterns in Nepal.

Nepe: the events in Nepal of the past week have given me hope again that things are possible.

Brilliant Brunette... I will be sorting through my photo files soon and hope to upload some interesting pictures soon, although none of them of are pro caliber...

Thank you everyone.

-Arnico.

arnico - congrats! :) :)

PS: i don't know how good of memory you have but hmm...how's your hand doing that you burnt while you were cooking? :) :)

BRAVO

Yeah, hope your findings can induce some good policy and undertakings in Kathamndu Valley to make the air clearner....

Arnico ji,
Congrats for your achievment! I still remember the beautiful pictures from Nepal you used to post in sajha some three years ago.

Congrats Arnico dada,
Way to go!!!!

~Meera~

Arnico Ji,
Congratulations for your achivement. Please keep it up.
I am not sure if you still remember but it was great to meet you in Boston few years back.

Congratulations, Arnico dai!

So how is the air doing right now? :)

hurry... pdf file be posted at the earliest.

ARNICO THAT WAS MEANT TO BE IN JEST

I HONESTLY AND SINCERELY APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORT AND SUCCESS.

MAY GOD BLESS YOU WITH WHAT YOU ARE ASPIRING FOR TO BE IN FUTURE.

NEPAL NEEDS PEOPLE LIKE YOU, NOT ME ...



LOOTEKUKUR