Mia Stampe
is a most interesting person. Professionally she is a glaciologist.
...quoting from an interview with
Mia:
"I got my MSc in geophysics and glaciology - the latter being the
science of ice and snow. I could ramble for hours about ice core drillings,
fun and fieldwork in Greenland, how it feels to wake up in a tent in
-45 degrees C, etc., but I'll spare you."
"I
got the chance to work at the Danish Space
Research Institute. First with public outreach but later again with
science. More specifically I am now working with satellite data, studying
the Earth's magnetic field and how it interacts with the flow of particles
constantly emitted from the Sun."
But we know Mia best as a Sherlockian, specifically a Danish Sherlockian.
She is the webmaster for the Danish
Bakers Street Irregulars, and
a very active member of WelcomeHolmes. She and her partner in crime,
Nancy Beiman, have contributed several articles
to Sherlockian lore, including: Sherlockian
Limericks.
Mia's writings on and about Holmes are excellent also. See: In
the Bicycle Tracks of Sherlock Holmes, and her
interview with Laurie King, author of some of the most inventive
Holmesian pastiches in recent years. All of Mia's writings on Holmes
topics are listed on the Holmes
page of her impressive web
site. One of her Sherlockian pages has to do with the use of a nom,
or fictional name, chosen from the stories in the Holmes canon. See
Mia's page about the members of an internet group called The Hounds
of the Internet. Many of our members are, or were, HOUNDS before coming
to our listserve group: WelcomeHolmes.
As I've always maintained, the most interesting people I ever met were
Sherlockians. Mia is no exception. In fact, she is proof positive that
Sherlockians are very special people.
