Hi everybody!
I know you all have been checking in religiously, sometimes twice a day, to see if I'd posted a new message. Well the wait is over. The new year is upon us and the NASA project is moving forward. My crack team and I (they're not really my team, I just like to say that) are comensing with snow surveying. We have established a series of snow courses in the Olympic National forest just east of the Park and south of Sequim. We'll be visiting these snow courses twice-a-week in order to collect snow samples that will be used to estimate the amount and water density of the snow pack in the Dungeness watershed. This data will contribute to the NEW AND IMPROVED! water budget model of which I've told you much already (maybe too much). My understanding is that it will definately be used in a ground-truthing capacity and possibly as legitimate data wich may be entered into the model. The exciting part of the snow sampling, for me anyway, is that I get to do stuff outside. There may be danger involved, but don't worry excessively for your cyber-hero, just worry for the people with me. On these survey trips my crack team and I will be snow shoeing to remote (kind of) areas where we have to follow exacting procedures in order to collect samples from the correct spot and make sure we measure and weigh it precisely and with the greatest possible accuracy. Soon I may have real data to wave in your collective faces so you can see how smart I am. Tune in next week ;)
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