Friday, September 7

Where in the world is Megan?

For those of you that don't know, Mexico City is located in south central Mexico. Mexico City is just north of the 19th parallel and is considered to be in the tropics. But at an elevation of 7,500 ft, the weather is very similar to San Francisco, not Acapulco.
The population of the Mexico City metropolitan area (shown above) is around 22 million people. Mexico City is located in the Distrito Federal and the metropolitan area is most often referred to as el D.F., similar to how Washington, D.C. if often just referred to as D.C. It is the world's second largest metropolitan area after Tokyo, which has a population of around 35 million!!!
I am working at Univerisdad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). It is the very large open area shown in this picture. It is located in the south part of the city in the delgación Coyoacan. The campus is called the univeristy city (cuidad universitaria, i.e. CU) because it so large. About half the campus is an ecological preserve. The other half has all the academic buildings where the student body of ~300,000 students get an excellent education (OK, that is for all the UNAM campuses in Mexico, but still!). UNAM is ranked the top university in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. It is also the second oldest university in the Americas, the first is Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos in Lima, Peru.
I am working at el Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera. The center consists of the two buildings in the south corner of the two parking lots in this picture. My office is located in the larger building and looks out at the square courtyard on the west side of the building.
And this is what my office looks like right now. Soon I will have an office mate and more decorations. But it was very nice to walk into an office that had brand new desks, chairs, and monitors!

1 comment:

Jeff said...

Wow, for that much work, someone should leave a comment! I enjoyed zooming from space to your office.