Let's introduce ourselves

[Nereo Preto]

Ciao everybody.
I'd like to start this forum and see who's around, I'll do it by introducing myself briefly.
My name is Nereo Preto, I am an Italian geologist. I am employed as a researcher at the University of Padova, and I am specialized in stratigraphy.
In CZ, I am an editor, but I also wrote some articles on stratigraphic topics.

Is there anybody out there who could join the Earth Sciences Workgroup? I'd like to know I'm not alone!

[Ron Cram]

Hey Nereo,

I'm Ron Cram.  I am an executive in the health care industry in California.  But my main interest here is in earth sciences and issues related to climate change.  I just wrote the first draft of an article on "Ocean heat content" here.  Please take a look.  Also, how do you get the article linked to the Earth Sciences category? 

I am interested in joining the Earth Sciences Workgroup and look forward to working with you.

[Hayford Peirce]

Hi, Ron,

Welcome aboard!

To link it to the Earth Sciences workgroup you have to go to the Metadata page (which can be found, with a little investigating) on the Talk page area, and type Earth Sciences into the Category area. At first it seems like Rocket Science (or sheer stupidity) but eventually it gets easy....

And to conform to our rules for participants in these Forums, would you kindly go to the little tab in the middle of the page that says Profile, then scroll on down to the bottom of the screen and where it says Signature, put in something more or less like:

My CZ user page: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/User:Your_CZName

This will enable your profile to be easily viewed by anyone who reads one of your messages here in the Forums. And thereby enables us, up to a point, at least, to make some sort of initial judgment about how much credence/deference/respect/belief/etc./etc. to give to anything you happen to post....

Thanks!

Hayford

[Howard C. Berkowitz]

Welcome! I'm not generally involved with Earth Sciences, but, while it doesn't exactly fit a workgroup, I have real-world background with the science and engineering supporting commercial fishing. Oddly, that ties into some of my work in the national intelligence areas, because remote multispectral scanning and such is very important in [[measurement and signature intelligence]]. Under my Military Workgroup hat, that leads into [[littoral warfare]] and other issues.

If we stay mutually aware and cross-link, we may well find a lot of synergies.

Howard

[Milton Beychok]

Ron Cram:

The reason your "Ocean heat content" article did not show the that it was in the Category:Earth Sciences Workgroup was that you had not completed filling in the required material on the Metadate Template.

I have now done so for you ... and you will now see (at the bottom of the Main Article subpage that the article is now in the Category:Earth Science Workgroup.

Milt Beychok

P.S. Also, please do as suggested by Hayford Pierce above. After you have provided you r user page here as he has shown you how to do, then we can all  go from any  of your postings in this forum directly to your user page.