Science at Work

I wanted a few photos of me in action, to illustrate the more exciting part of the academic part of my daily life. A friend of mine took some pictures, but this isn't quite what I was hoping for:

This is perhaps the most accurate. Over the summer I spent quite a bit of time behind this microscope.

This instrument resides on the other half of the lab. I'm not sure what it does, beside look impressive.

This is a nice chunk of Earth's mantle and me caught off guard.