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Author: Jack Hare

Caving in Tatham Wife Hole and Aygill Caverns

September 19, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

A wonderful weekend in the Dales with excellent food, good photography and fine company. Also some new caves, which is always a pleasure.

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Posted in: Caving Filed under: Yorkshire Dales

Sheep rescue, Simpson’s Pot, Canyon Exploration and Kite Flying, September 2020

September 15, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

A multi-activity day featuring animal rescue, caving, a canyon recce and some kite flying.

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Posted in: Canyoning, Caving

Caving, canyoning and hiking around the Yorkshire Dales, August 2020

September 2, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

It had been a long time since I’d stayed at Greenclose Cottage, the caving “hut” run by the Northern Pennine Club in the Yorkshire Dales. Rhys and I booked in for the long weekend, and planned an ambitious schedule of caving, climbing, cycling, canyoning and hiking, only three of which actually happened.

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Posted in: Canyoning, Caving, Hiking

Surveying in Jenga Pot, August 2020

August 20, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

About 30 minutes drive from where I’m living in North Yorkshire lies Jenga Pot, part of the greatest cave system on the North York Moors. The North York Moors are not exactly famed for their caves, so it’s possible that this is not particularly high praise.

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Posted in: Caving Filed under: cave exploration

Productivity: Rocketbook and Notion

August 3, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

I’ve been trying out a few new tools recently. Rocketbook is an erasable notebook you can scan with your phone, and Notion is, well, I’m not sure. It might be lots of things. I use it as a task manager, and I’ve started using it as a spreadsheet/database for grant proposals.

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Posted in: Plasma Physics Filed under: my work, productivity

Video: “Magnetic Reconnection and Magnetised Turbulence in High Energy Density Plasmas”

July 23, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

Here’s a video of the talk I gave for the PPPL Heliophysics seminar last week. It covers research on pulsed-power driven experiments on magnetic reconnection and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, as well as new diagnostics for plasma turbulence and the new PUFFIN pulsed-power facility to be built at MIT.

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics

Wild Camping at Lincove Beck

July 19, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

We camped for two nights in the caldera of a mega volcano, which gouged out this fantastic 15 km wide bowl in “the most violent episode in British History” [The BMC, clearly unaware of the scenes outside the Fulham Spoons on a Saturday night].

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Posted in: Hiking

A Return to Dense, Magnetised Plasmas

June 2, 2020 Jack Hare 2 Comments

After a wonderful year of living in Munich and working at the Institute for Plasma Physics there, I decided to return to my first love: dense, magnetised plasmas. Since April 1st I’ve been working again as a post doc at Imperial College London, in the MAGPIE Group.

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Posted in: Laboratory Astrophysics Filed under: experimental physics, my work, Physics, turbulence

Kürsinger Hütte ski mountaineering

March 13, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

An incredible four days skiing up to Kürsinger Hütte in Austria, summitting a few peaks, crossing glaciers, and returning to a pandemic.

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Posted in: Ski touring

Innsbruck Ski Touring Weekend

March 7, 2020 Jack Hare Leave a comment

All Photos On Friday evening I headed down to Innsbruck, with a compact but extremely heavy bag, with boots lashed…

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Posted in: Ski touring

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