When can we play in the snow?

Well vehicle problems have plagued the NASA project for a while. The luxurious Ford Expedition should be back in action this week! As a few of my work crews in the past have said, “she is wearing some new dancing shoes,” meaning she has new tires, nice deep ones that should help keep the high center of gravity going where we want it. Hopefully Wednesday we will be back up in the Dungeness with the possibility of fresh snow it if has been cold enough. Our servitude to the park may also be called upon as well; weather permitting, we are going to gear up for another little hike off Hurricane Ridge to tackle that snow survey on Friday. Here is a photo from our last survey up there...work sucks :)



The public outreach side of things is going well for the NASA project. Last week Dwight, Shea and I attended a Dungeness River Management Team meeting to get the latest news on the model. The following day we met with the model developer to discuss things on a more technical scale. Speaking of technical, here is the latest podcast creation, though it is at the draft stage. Any comments appreciated. It is meant to be a bit more nerdy, sorry about that.

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GIS work is well…okay I am lazy. I have made some potential KML files, but need to get some descriptions attached to them so people know what they are looking at. Hope to accomplish a few of those soon. On the wildfire side of things, the progress is picking up steam, but still a bumpy ride…I am becoming very intimate with the various fire modeling platforms (FARSITE, FlamMap, BehavePlus) provided by our gracious federal agencies.

Finally, in an attempt to put some more fun into this blog. Do me a favor and check out the band Glasvegas. Their Pandora station is great and can’t wait to go somewhere and buy an album or two.