Watch out Western Snow Conference

Howdy there my loyal followers,

I'm back again after a bit of a spring layoff. I'm very excited about our (me and my crack team of researchers) upcoming trip to the Western Snow Conference. We'll be leaving on monday, April 14th, for Hood River, OR (road trip!), staying for three nights and coming back in time for my thursday night forest ecology class. While there, we'll get to hob nob with a virtual who's who in the Western U.S. water resource management industry. We (Dr. Dwight Barry, Chris DeSisto, Erin Drake, Shaelee Evans and myself) just finished composing poster presentations of our data for the conference. We have posters explaining the NASA solutions netowork and the hybrid water forecasting model of which I've explained much in previous posts. A third poster refers to a team research project comparing the effects of a forest fire on adjacent snow pack up on Blue Mountain, just east of Port Angeles. Pre and post burn snow data was compared with El Nino and La Nina events factored out. Hopefully, the proffesionals will be interested in our posters and want to talk with us at great length. I may be most excited about getting to hear the inside scoop on working in the water resource management industy,
from those who do it for a living. One the many benefits I've discovered in the undergrad research program, is getting first hand accounts from people in the field. Now amount of academic preparation can give you the insight of what a job or proffesion is really like, the way a conversation with someone who works in the business can. Because I've set my sights on working with water resources, I can't wait to get a preview of what it will be like.