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=Arrival and around campus= [[Image:airport.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|The first thing we saw after landing in China and getting off the plane; the Beijing international airport, which was amazing.]] [[Image:hotel.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Our accommodations while in Beijing, the Jingshi Hotel, right on the corner of the BNU campus. A welcome sight after the long trip over.]] [[Image:bnublng.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|The most impressive building on campus. It looked strangely [http://www.modelermagic.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/front_c4.jpg familiar] to us ...]] [[Image:otheruniv.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|A neighboring university to BNU, which had an impressive statue of Chairman Mao.]] [[Image:lunch.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We had great food at every meal. Here, a fancy lunch out with some other faculty members and the dean.]] =Scenes from the meeting= [[Image:lecture1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|There were lots of lectures...]] [[Image:martina.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Martina lays out the basics of glaciology and modeling.]] [[Image:thomas2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Thomas takes it to another level with an introduction to ELMER.]] [[Image:bill.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Steve muddies the waters a bit more by introducing CISM.]] [[Image:steve.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Bill plays anchorman and brings it home with an intro to CESM.]] [[Image:internet.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Not again! We got used to the network falling down at crucial moments.]] [[Image:plugins.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We were sometimes short on plugins for all the laptops ...]] [[Image:tea.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...especially around tea time. Watch out for electric shocks and steam burns everyone! Remember what John says; "China is always trying to ..."]] [[Image:pingpong.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|There was an Olympic class ping pong table, which unfortunately we did not use often enough.]] [[Image:students1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Back to work everyone.]] [[Image:students2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Students working hard on the side of the room ...]] [[Image:students3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...and at the back of the room.]] =Night life= [[Image:hutong1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|We were busy every night seeing different parts of the city.]] [[Image:hutong2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Usually we found ourselves struggling to keep up with "Hutong John" as he hurried through the maze of alleys. Quick! Don't loose sight of that red fleece jacket!]] [[Image:brewery1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Hidden away somewhere in the middle of it all, an amazing discovery ...]] [[Image:brewery2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...a [http://www.greatleapbrewing.com/ real microbrewery]...]] [[Image:brewery3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...with good beer...]] [[Image:brewery4.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...and access to great takeout (here, flat bread and roast lamb skewers).]] =The last day= [[Image:billandji.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Bill and Ji struggle to get CESM working on "Pink Bunny"; BNU's (unofficially named) climate modeling supercomputer.]] [[Image:ensemble.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|And it works! The group completes it's first ice-sheet / climate change ensemble simulation; suprisingly (not really), we find that Greenland's surface mass balance becomes increasingly negative (blue) as the climate warms (from left to right).]] [[Image:cake.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|To celebrate our minor victory, cake! Our host John does the honors.]] [[Image:guwei.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|A rare siting of (the highly essential) Gu Wei (in pink), without who the meeting would have been an utter failure.]] [[Image:group.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Group photo in front of the big screen.]] [[Image:johnji.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|It's over. Ji (also essential!) and John heave a tremendous sigh of relief...]] [[Image:front.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|...as do the rest of the organizers and instructors.]] =Tourists= [[Image:subway|thumb|center|600 px|We managed to be tourists too. Each outing usually started on the subway, which ran very often and was always very full.]] [[Image:tian1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.]] [[Image:tian2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Entrance to the Forbidden City.]] [[Image:forbiddencity1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Bronze lion and palace.]] [[Image:forbiddencity2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Palace detail.]] [[Image:forbiddencity3.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Rooftop detail in the Forbidden City.]] [[Image:summerpalace1.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Temple in the Summer Palace.]] [[Image:summerpalace2.jpg|thumb|center|600 px|Summer Palace detail.]]

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