Lines of lyrical lucidity and true confessions of experiments gone awry: what else would a scientific haiku contest bring?
Last week, the AGU Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee challenged scientists traveling to the Fall Meeting this December to explain their research in a single haiku. The format of a haiku—a poem split between three lines, with the first line having five syllables, the second seven, and the third five—dares poets to be brief, descriptive, and profound.
Are you heading to @theAGU Fall Meeting? Tweet a haiku about your research with the tags #HaikuYourResearch and #AGU18 and the haikus with the most likes + retweets will win a prize!! Contest ends Nov 5th! pic.twitter.com/pFuGt9RGd5
— AGU Water Students (@AGU_H3S) October 3, 2018
Since the competition was unveiled last week, submissions have been pouring in via the Twitter hashtag #HaikuYourResearch. The contest is still ongoing, and the competition is fierce. Think you have what it takes?
To inspire your inner poet, we grabbed a few haikus for your reading pleasure. So fix a cup of tea, and sit back and enjoy the sweet simplicity of scientific minimalism. Then, go write your own poem! .
But Soft, What Light Through Yonder Cloud Breaks?Clouds come high and lowIce crystals and liquid dropsReflecting sunlight #HaikuYourResearch #AGU18
— Bastiaan van Diedenhoven (@CloudsBastiaan) October 5, 2018
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Rhyming “Mass Spectrometry” Is ImpressiveForams of the seaPast is key to the presentMass spectrometry#HaikuYourResearch
— Jennifer Hertzberg (@PaleoForams) October 4, 2018
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Nothing Survives the Robot ArmyOur robot armyCaptured months of flux data.R can't handle it.#AGU18 #HaikuYourResearch pic.twitter.com/QMydhfEc0V
— Holly Andrews (@HMAndrewsEco) October 5, 2018
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You Do Matter, Manganese! Don’t Let Anyone Tell You OtherwiseArsenic UptakeIrrigation scheme matters!Manganese does, too.#HaikuYourResearch #AGU18 pic.twitter.com/zfJaleE7lJ
— Lena Abu-Ali (@LenaAbuAli1) October 4, 2018
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Can “Sounds of Dirt” Please Be a Band Name?#HaikuYourResearch #AGU2018 Sounds bounce off of dirtLike bats, we can see the soundsSeismic for the win
— Derek Gibson (@dkgibson02) October 4, 2018
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#RealTalkICPMSPlease do not break down todayI must graduate#HaikuYourResearch
— Ryan Glaubke (@OcnOgrphr) October 4, 2018
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Cute Mammals to the Rescue!Vanishing wetlandsWilderness scarred by drought, fireBeavers save the day#AGU2018 #AGU18 #HaikuYourResearch pic.twitter.com/lg2qIofvUv
— Emily Fairfax (@EmilyFairfax) October 4, 2018
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We’re Glad Yellow Was Not Included…Colour of snowWhite, blue, brown, red even blackMelt is quicker than expected
#HaikuYourResearch #AGU18 #NationalPoetryDay
— Veronica Chan (@c_gaga) October 5, 2018
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“Think About Direction; Wonder Why You Haven’t Before”*In the Earth's crust sitmagnetic minerals thatmess with your compass#HaikuYourResearch #AGU18
— Brian (@magnetman42) October 5, 2018
*This link is for you, millennials! .
The Symphonies of SpaceSongs we can't hear playon magnetic violinsfor twirling protons. #HaikuYourResearch #AGU18 #SpaceWeather pic.twitter.com/rLtTo5tCn7
— Dr. Kristine Sigsbee (@Sputnik6400) October 9, 2018
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Devonian-ly PuzzlingThe magnetic fieldDuring the DevonianWhat was it doing?#HaikuYourResearch #AGU2018
— Annique van der Boon (@Anniquevdb) October 5, 2018
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I Guess You Could Say the Lasers See the Trees for the Forest?Laser all the trees. See how they make up the woods. Does it matter? Yes!#HaikuYourResearch
— jeff -kins(@atkinsjeff) October 6, 2018
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Ye, Plume of Old, Hark!O plume, revealThyself! By your data andYour earthly precepts#HaikuYourResearch #AGU18https://t.co/WwlLv44MFj
— Jeremy Bennett (@driftingtides) October 5, 2018
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It’s OK, We Like Talking to Rocks TooI speak with old rocks full of past climate’s secrets Sometimes, they share them! #HaikuYourResearch #AGU18 #Paleoclimate pic.twitter.com/eRXynxeeJO
— Fatima Husain (@FatimagulHusain) October 5, 2018
. Of course, these are just a sliver of the competition’s entries—there are oh so many more haikus tagged with #HaikuYourResearch on Twitter. Retweet or like the poems that catch your fancy to weigh in on the competition!
And if the spirit moves you, tweet your own haiku tagged with #HaikuYourResearch to give your studies the 17-syllable spotlight!
—Jenessa Duncombe (@jenessaduncombe), News Writing and Production Intern
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