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Research project:
M.S Geology Degree goals:
To become better familiarized with methods and techniques used to solve geological problems.
To develop an in-depth knowledge of snow modeling and the factors that are taken into account when creating realistic models.
To gain more research experience within the field.
To be more confident in applying theoretical, conceptual and observation knowledge to the analysis of geological problems.
To be able to discuss geologically related issues that have an impact on society.
To demonstrate and further develop my ability in writing and communication within the Geosciences.
Submit 1-2 papers for publication.
Present research at regional and national meetings.
To further familiarize myself with reading and correctly interpreting scientific literature as a foundation for my research projects.
To form good relationships with my advisers and fellow graduate students.
To be employable in a Geology-related field after the completion of my graduate studies.
Activities for 9/23:
mass weight Ta and windrose by amount of precip falling at that time.
-redo figure to accommodate for this
Do powerpoint for WCWAVE
Do poster and abstract for WCWAVE
Activities for 9/8:
talk to TC about communications and plans for validation of tools
email MT about status on VWP
Merge edits on word document
Look at WSL website -> for more data availability on RST data.
Continue working on figure edits
Activities for 7/30:
Make list for toolboxes needed on MATLAB
Create updated timeline for prospectus, including one if VWP is unavailable. Circulate prospectus.
Email MS
Accept invite from DM
Send follow up to authors about invitation
- email TL, considering second session with model inputs
Boise visit authorization: blanket TA, ground travel (4round trips) give block date.
Email Carrie, see if it is okay to miss class for 3 weeks (2 weeks for thesis, 1 week for seminar)? And if I could remotely connect.
Sign up for essed
Email MT
Rough Draft of poster - AGU
Submit AGU Abstract
Activities for 7/14:
Email MT to set up meetings for JD data and VWP runs.
Complete QC for wd & ws
Wind correct 124b precip
Email PK snow filter tool
Send JJ some data for input generation.
- Select 1 WY
Start drafting figures for paper
Get soil data
- no l-1 data, but have one station sample data.
Activities for 7/7:
Email possible authors on abstract and see if they want to be included or not (find out preferred publishing name)
- In: CLE, SEG, JPM, TEL, PRK, MSS
- Pending: DM
- Denied: SKN
Double check abstract
Start writing data paper
Email PK for snow depth filter tool and do.
- work with PK to debug code: incompatibilities with Mac and Windows.
Gap fill tripod stations
Become an AGU member
Activities for 4/27:
follow up with all re: Jun Boise trip and submit new TA
SEG: finish prospectus edits
finish term projects for geomorph & programming
gather together syllabus, transcript etc. from NM and BSU classes (end of semester)
Activities for 4/20:
email PK and schedule Boise trip
finish edits on Prospectus
Prepare prospectus presentation
gather together syllabus, transcript ect from NM and BSU classes (end of semester)
Activities for 4/13:
email PK and schedule Boise trip
schedule Skype/phone mtg with DM (postponed)
start revising prospectus (aim for 4/17 to SG/SKN pending Boise trip dates)
attend WCWAVE meeting
Activities for 4/6:
go through QA/QC example with SG
contact DM about rescheduling meeting, send copy of Sage's thesis
complete prospectus 1st draft, emphasize controls
Activities for 3/30:
revise hypotheses based on our discussion
propose plausible scenarios to test at least a couple of these hypotheses
reschedule Boise trip for April
compile request for SG to take to Boise by Thurs
schedule meeting with JJ, DD, SG, SKN (or as many as possible)
Activities for 3/9:
set up trip to Boise to meet with Danny (contact Donna)
set up meeting with M Turner
duration of storms, relative to quiet spells between storms
average intensity vs. peak intensity
{SG: look up more anticipated climate scenarios}
Activities for 3/2:
ask Reinhardt re monsoon refs and read
read Kumar, precip in Dingman
brainstorm future precip distrib scenarios
W/F re: Matt re: VWP
- start looking through data for QA/QC
- plot T timeseries for all stations, looking for bad values
- JMP, formulas using flags to find problematic points
Activities for 2/16:
find and read Kumar(?) PIHM paper (post to share)
identify 2 years for JD analyses (NRCS reports will be helpful)
- start looking through data for QA/QC (followed up with MS)
- plot T timeseries for all stations, looking for bad values
- JMP, formulas using flags to find problematic points
{SG: email Tim}
Activities for 12/17:
talk to DM about collaboration volunteering for field data processing
ponder undergraduate internship
start prep on presentation for WAVE meeting (will practice presentation in Jan)
Finals!
Activities for 12/10:
email JJ and MT about snow depth data; if they don't have it, ask DM (get email approved prior to sending)
run model for 1983 (high) and 1977 (low)
Another 1 sticky-noted page in HoS
Start thinking about over-break goals
Discuss: weekly meeting days for next semester?
send snow photo to SG
Activities for 12/3:
isnobal images: for a) big drift year and b) low drift year: early, mid, and late season snow depth
isnobal image: recreate Winstral image at 10m res for comparison
Lower priority: read 1 p from sticky-noted HoS
Activities for 11/19:
skim Handbook-o-Snow and mark sections for detailed reading. (DO NOT READ YET)
explain Sx/Sb (contact SKN/SG if need sooner)
write code for precip text file
email PK re: matlab code
access files on glacier; return hd to DM
email DonnaD to approve mail expense to return hd
Activities for 11/12:
try adding full path to executable call in code
- text MF about code issue
Write good explanation of Sb/Sx, be prepared to teach SKN and SG
Pick top 2 papers to start, send to SKN&SG, write abstracts
skim Handbook-o-Snow and mark sections for detailed reading (started)
continue to transfer data to glacier
drop quick email to Danny to let him know status of hard drive
Activities for 11/4:
dig through archived gray lit for wind synonyms (advection, redistribution, etc.)
Talk to Meghan about error: cannot find isnobal in final script
search for PK's dissertation - look for explanation of Sb, etc.
search for Handbook of Snow (library, ILL?)
transfer new files to Lithium
<step 1: Run code at 10m res, compare to field observations>
practice with Web of Science searching, expanding on related papers/terms. Collect new papers.
{SG starts WoS search, 5-10 seed papers; will send to CE}
Activities for 10/29:
see CoSETech about power supply, extracting files to Lithium
- get files off
scan through Handbook of Snow (black body radiation; thermal flux mechanisms; variation in fluxes in space and time)
read/abstract Pomeroy (w/ Helgeson, 2012; w/ Minard et al., 2014)
email WC WAVE re: summer schedule
download and scan through abstracts Western Snow Conference Proceedings (2014 or most recent) for recent wind work
Activities for 10/22:
{SG to contact Pomeroy about drifting}
test getting files from external hard drive onto personal machine; contact if additional machine needed ->
{SG looks for power supply cord}
talk to SG about plans for meeting in NM; travel to SA
write short priority list of goals
Activities for 10/10:
-- Read latest Winstral, Marks papers
-- Begin wind/drift papers search
-- Work through input file modifications
-- Compile questions to work on with D.
-- 1-2 pp. summary (incl. what you've read/what's been done, possible research gaps/opportunities, your key question(s), and research plan)
Activities for 10/1:
-- Begin to modify code for Dry Creek inputs
-- Attend CZO All Hands meeting
-- Follow up with Danny re: possible meeting on 10/10
-- What is actually printing the metadata with the scale info? (grep -n word *.sh)
-- Read wind papers
Activities for 9/17:
-- Email Angela Gregory about the ISNOBAL workshop
-- Email Danny about Committee participation
-- Ask Joel to help tutor me on process of input data for ISNOBAL
-- What is actually printing the metadata with the scale info? (grep -n word *.sh)
Activities for 9/10:
Questions
-- What do the band numbers mean?
-- How to interpret years in example run?
-- Units and scale bars?
-- convert input binaries to tiffs/ASCII tables so that we can see what we're putting in?
work on equations table
run PK's text data to make input binary files, use diff to compare to existing (old) binary files
Activities for 9/3:
see CoSETech about "Permission denied" for ipw2grid
contact viz team (Chase) to see about viz status update
finish iSNOBAL section of bestiary
finish equations table
Overall Fall 2014 goals:
plot and interpret pilot runs of RME iSNOBAL results
help with majors and minors fair
prep draft poster for Jan '15 for WCWAVE meeting
Dispatches from Geosphere outreach
Activities for 8/26:
grand meeting with Meghan (Friday)
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<new student required activities>
continue working on bestiary - complete isnobal section; start populating equations table
Tim Link: translated code to another language? (follow up) UI
Activities for 8/19:
meet with Meghan (missing Makefile, running code)
follow-up email with JM for data source alternative
check with CoSETech about noMachine access (SKN, others)
update bestiary to include iSNOBAL, start PRMS; start thinking about sequential events/timeline of development
Activities for 8/12:
continue bestiary - more refs on SNTHERM, finish marked passages in current version
download data through Pangea site, practice loading data into run (won't be able to tell if good or bad)
email geohelp@isu.edu to request help with configure on lithium (joint access: CE, SG, SKN, MF, wJJ)
Activities for 7/29:
heal
continue bestiary
waiting on tech support for lithium installation
- once install goes through, try to follow PK's steps through a simple model run
Activities for 7/21:
Continue bestiary (see refs for TopoFlow on the CSDMS page and in pubs folder)
Get ISNOBAL running on Lithium
Request access for Lithium from CoSE Tech
Activities for 7/15:
Continue bestiary
Meet with Meghan ASAP
read up on UNIX/Linux navigation commands (pwd, ls, ls -l, cd, mkdir, mv, cp) for cygwin
Susong 1999 paper
Activities for 7/8:
continue reading Ch 5 of Dingman
read Winstral et al. (2009), summarize
abstract search: snow modeling (Web of Science)
- start on bestiary (spreadsheet is fine; prepping for lit review)
- early emphasis: UEB, SNTHRM, TOPOFLOW snow energy balance, Shaw, PRMS
install gcc (free online, if not already installed)
meet with Meghan to discuss isnobal, install (must install after cygwin 64)
update website -- customize at will
Activities for 7/1:
Read C.5 of Dingman
Read Winstral et al. 2012 (AWR),
Winstral & Marks 2002 (HP),
Marks et al. 1999 (HP),
Kormos et al. in press (JoH)
Snow melt is essential as it is the primary source for groundwater recharge, soil moisture and stream flow particularly in mountainous regions. I will be utilizing the ISNOBAL model to model snowpacks in the rain-snow transition zone under expected future precipitation scenarios. My research site is the Johnston Draw watershed which is a sub-watershed of the Reynolds Creek Experimental Watershed, Idaho. ISNOBAL is a spatially-distributed energy balance snow model that simulates snow-cover development and ablation from images of distributed meteorological forcing variables. ISNOBAL will improve our understanding of the complex processes that occur between the topography, climate and moisture availability in mountainous regions, allowing us to better use our water resources.
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