{"id":1167,"date":"2025-08-11T09:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/?p=1167"},"modified":"2025-08-11T09:37:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:37:58","slug":"transition-to-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2025\/08\/11\/transition-to-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Transition to Retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>As of Fall, 2025, I&#8217;m officially beginning my transition to retirement.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transition? Temple allows faculty members to work half time their final three years while receiving full benefits &#8212; sweet! &#8212; so I will be teaching only the fall semester until I&#8217;m fully retired as of July 1st, 2028. I plan remain research active in retirement, just without all of the administrative headaches. I won&#8217;t be taking any new graduate students, but I&#8217;m open to mentoring undergraduate student research. I hope to become more involved at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ambler.temple.edu\/fieldstation\">Temple Ambler Field Station<\/a>, adding geophysical investigations to the <a href=\"https:\/\/ambler.temple.edu\/field-station\/research\/research-highlights\">growing list<\/a> of ecological research projects. The best part? I can do as little or as much as I feel like.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Having time to experiment with AI<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s also fun to have time to experiment with all of the new AI tools that I find totally fascinating. This summer I ran a day-long AI workshop for faculty in my department, covering everything from the basics of using large language models, to designing AI resistant assignments. At the start of the workshop, I asked faculty to share three words the describe AI. The resulting word cloud illustrates the mixture of fear and excitement AI elicits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"343\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/image.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/image.png 980w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/image-300x105.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/image-768x269.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn\u2019t it be ironic if it\u2019s the emeritus faculty who chart a path through all the disruption?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Did I mention more time to travel?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just back from hiking in the Dolomites, the Italian Alps that are the type section for this rock type. Including a visit to the site of the plaque commemorating Deodat de Dolomieu, <br>French geologist and mineralogist best known for giving his name to <em>dolomite<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/composite_side_by_side.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/composite_side_by_side.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/composite_side_by_side.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/composite_side_by_side-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/files\/2025\/08\/composite_side_by_side-768x288.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of Fall, 2025, I&#8217;m officially beginning my transition to retirement. Transition? Temple allows faculty members to work half time their final three years while receiving full benefits &#8212; sweet! &#8212; so I will be teaching only the fall semester &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/2025\/08\/11\/transition-to-retirement\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1167\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.temple.edu\/geophysics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}