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I was in a room, eating I think, when I had my last short conversation with my last dissertation advisor, T.N. Krishnamurti. He had come to the Aircraft operations office in Sal, in the Canary Islands, to visit for a few days. I started to apologize to him for not thanking him enough for the support he had given me for the years of my dissertation time in Tallahassee – I was trying to say that I’d not contributed much to his research during my time at FSU. He said that I had does something new on the Mexican Monsoon. I said it was just a baby monsoon, not so important… but he cut me off. He said that he mentioned it in his tropical class and that what makes research important is when it gets into the classroom.

When one’s research gets into the classroom. That is something to remember. Unless research gets into the classroom it will not propagate downstream to the next generation. It becomes buried in the interminable mound of publications that don’t get wide distribution.