Monday, January 12, 2009

2009 - the future is now!

Hi again my friends,
I hope 2008 treated you well, I know I had a blast. 2009 looks like it will be even better, especially after I graduate. Collecting snow samples has gotten a bit more exciting this year with the increased amount of early snow. I'm getting ready to head back out with Rebecca in the morning to sample from our hardest to access site. I'm hoping the recent rain we've had has melted some of the snow. I have the feeling however, that our recent rain in town was more recent snow up at elevation. It's nice to have challenges in life from which to grow, right?
I'm looking forward to going to the Puget Sound, Georgia Basin Conference in Seattle this Feb 8-11. I have to go as part of a class but I get to use water management in the Puget Sound as the subject for my paper in the class. I'll be able to apply some of my knowledge in water management gained from the NASA project in my paper research. It'll also be an opportunity to widen my focus from hydrology and decision making in the Dungeness and Elwha watersheds, to that of the greater Puget Sound region. I always enjoy overlapping projects because they help reinforce and expand my understanding of an issue. It also increases the bird kill rate per stone throw ;)

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