Thread: I introduce myself

Hello to all
My name is Francesca, I am a doctor of science and technology for the environment, I'm completing my education with a specialization in environmental certification and impact assessment. I'm also considering to take a course as HSE manager.
The forum asked me to introduce myself, and so I did ...




"The real voyage of discovery consists not
in seeking new landscapes,
but in seeing with new eyes "
(M. Proust)

Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you will find many opportunities to contribute from your area of expertise as global warming is a topic often brought up on this site.

Thanks seagypsy
I'll be happy to compare myself with other colleagues or with people who care about our world

Originally Posted by Fra

Thanks seagypsy
I'll be happy to compare myself with other colleagues or with people who care about our world

It would appear you are in Europe, Italy specifically? I should like to call attention to a fact which I observed many years ago, when I took a trip from America to Europe with my new wife, who had been born in Germany.

It was 1972, May specifically. We arrived in Munich, then drove throughout Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and a part of France. I vividly recall environmental conditions which appalled me. Driving along the Rhine River, mile after mile of majestic shoreline dotted with amazing hillside castles, the waters appeared to have the "quality" equivalent to those of the Chicago River, the area I grew up in. 4 million toilets flush directly into the Chicago River.

The Black Forest. I had heard of it's mystic essence all my life. Driving through the area, I was sorely disappointed, as one could see essentially nothing, so poor was the air quality.

We wanted to see the beaches of Italy, visited briefly in Venice, where great numbers of rats were lying dead on the shore, having been washed up there. One could swim there, as the area was designated as a beach.

Have such things improved environmentally in Europe, over ensuing years? jocular

Originally Posted by jocular

Originally Posted by Fra

Thanks seagypsy
I'll be happy to compare myself with other colleagues or with people who care about our world

It would appear you are in Europe, Italy specifically? I should like to call attention to a fact which I observed many years ago, when I took a trip from America to Europe with my new wife, who had been born in Germany.

It was 1972, May specifically. We arrived in Munich, then drove throughout Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and a part of France. I vividly recall environmental conditions which appalled me. Driving along the Rhine River, mile after mile of majestic shoreline dotted with amazing hillside castles, the waters appeared to have the "quality" equivalent to those of the Chicago River, the area I grew up in. 4 million toilets flush directly into the Chicago River.

The Black Forest. I had heard of it's mystic essence all my life. Driving through the area, I was sorely disappointed, as one could see essentially nothing, so poor was the air quality.

We wanted to see the beaches of Italy, visited briefly in Venice, where great numbers of rats were lying dead on the shore, having been washed up there. One could swim there, as the area was designated as a beach.

Have such things improved environmentally in Europe, over ensuing years? jocular

actually is not a lookout ...
However, there are places that are still beautiful and almost natural.


In 1972, it definitely was not given much importance to the environment and maybe not even to the health. Finding dead mice out and about maybe it will have been a high chance of those years, now it is unthinkable.

Hello and welcome to the Science Forum!
Considering your academic knowledge, I am looking forward to your contributions.


PS: You have a beautiful name.

Originally Posted by Cogito Ergo Sum

Hello and welcome to the Science Forum!
Considering your academic knowledge, I am looking forward to your contributions.


PS: You have a beautiful name.

thanks

Originally Posted by PhDemon

Originally Posted by jocular

4 million toilets flush directly into the Chicago River.

Reminds me of this story I heard at College:

Lavatory paper was not invented until 1857 – by the New Yorker Joseph C. Gayetty, whose “Therapeutic Paper” was marketed as being “a perfectly pure article for the toilet and for the prevention of piles.” At the time of Victoria's visit to Trinity, students would tend to use pages torn from books and the primitive plumbing in the colleges meant that the paper (and everything else) ended up in the River Cam.

There is a tale of Queen Victoria being shown over Trinity by the Master, Dr. Whewell, and saying, as she looked down over the bridge: “What are all those pieces of paper floating down the river?” To which, with great presence of mind, he replied, “Those, ma’am, are notices that bathing is forbidden.”
(Gwen Raverat - Period Piece 1952)

I'm sorry, I did not understand the story ... my english is not perfect, you must excuse me I will try to improve

Ciao Francesca!

La mia ragazza è italiana; l’ho conosciuta recentemente. Ora sto imparando l’italiano – e penso di andare in Italia questo inverno.

Originally Posted by Olinguito

Ciao Francesca!

La mia ragazza è italiana; l’ho conosciuta recentemente. Ora sto imparando l’italiano – e penso di andare in Italia il prossimo inverno.

ciao, parli egregiamente l'italiano

*goes to google translate*

Fra.....my niece is Francesca...Welcome, young learned lady!

Welcome to the forum.