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  • Rain water collection system: Blue Mountain National Park 

    Dear friends, I posted another article about rain water harvesting at derwinirawan.wordpress.com. It’s about rain water collection system in Blue Mountain National Park, Australia. Happy reading. Cheers, Erwin 

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (2)

    (cover of a slide, presented at SD Regina Pacis, 2003, private collection) I am a lecturer, and try to devote my life to that so called profession, but I am still want to be a teacher. Kata orang “bisa jadi pengajar belum tentu bisa jadi guru”. Pak Awang Satyana, in my point of view, has…

  • Roundabout to save water

    “Water is the driver of nature” (Leonardo da Vinci) Dear friends Have you ever been to Blue Mountain Sydney? You must have seen this roundabout. But you may have missed this information. If you did see the roundabout, you may not think that it is actually a water tank down below. It collects rain water…

  • Awang Satyana: Publish or Perish (1)

    (image: a snapshot of a paper by Awang Satyana, private collection)   It’s all about digital foot print. Nowadays scientists are valued from their digital foot print. It’s not real until you make it online. Web crawlers like Google (google.com or scholar.google.com) has their own methodology to identify new scientific entries and add them to their…

  • Do you use any software to teach #statistics?

    (image from: www.statisticsviews.com) This was a question popped by one of my friend at Research Gate. The question then harvests so many responses. So I thought it would be useful if I make a summary out of that. There are arguments that we should teach statistics, not only using manual calculation but also by using software…

  • Awang Satyana: Books, the world he can’t live without

    (Image: stack of published paper, private collection) Dear friends, Selamat berlibur Lebaran. Mohon maaf lahir dan batin. Di tengah kehikmatan Idul Fitri tahun ini, saya coba merenung. Di usia saya yang menjelang 40 tahun, saya sudah berbuat apa. Post di wall Facebook Awang Satyana, membuat saya merenung lebih keras, sudah menghasilkan apa saya ini. Berikut…

  • Tribute to Awang Satyana

    Hopefully, Next week I will finish and post a tribute to Awang Satyana, one of the prominent Indonesian geologist. The post will verbatimly linked to his post at his Facebook Wall. There will be three posts: Books: the world he can’t live without Publish or perish: more than 20 years of writing history The geology…

  • Example of LaTeX presentation

    (image from: www.imdb.com) This post is actually a short tutorial on how to make a simple geoscience presentation. I made it for my undergraduate and master students. I posted the pdf at onlinewaterbook.wordpress.com. The following is the LaTeX code of the slides. I am borrowing the template from Sascha Frank from University Freiburg. % % %…

  • How to build a geoscience presentation (part 1)

      (image from: www.imdb.com) Geoscience has been placed as a rocket science, due to its complexity. The audience is considered to be very specific. I mad these slides for my undergrad (and also my master students) in Bahasa Indonesia. It contains a few notes on how to make a worthy geoscience presentation. I made it with LaTeX by…

  • Blog updates

      I posted two articles on my blogs: Pentingnya menampung air hujan (Rain harvesting): blog.fitb.itb.ac.id/derwinirawan Minimal LaTeX packages: onlinewaterbook.wordpress.com View on Path

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