A few months ago I found out my local ski area, Sandia Peak, preemptively chose not to open for the upcoming ski season (2022/2023). It isn’t that unusual for Sandia Peak to stay closed for the season, and they were also closed last season. However, I had thought the decision to stay closed is typically …
Category Archives: Hydrology
Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – A Follow Up
Overview Last winter I tried my hand at competing in a machine learning competition to predict snow water equivalent (SWE) across the Western United States. I learned a lot and created a two part blog series to document both the competition and my approach: Machine Learning for Snow Hydrology – A CompetitionMachine Learning for Snow …
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Greenland Snow Temperatures
My graduate degree research was focused on glacial hydrology, which is basically trying to figure out how water moves above, below, and through glaciers and ice sheets. Water is important because it affects things like sliding, melting, sub-glacial erosion, and geochemistry. My research utilized temperature measurements from snow on the Greenland ice sheet, and I …
NMWDI SensorThings API
The mean annual precipitation in NM is about 14 inches which makes it one the driest states in the US. Almost the entire Western US is much drier than the Eastern US, and climate change is likely to make things worse. Water management is therefore critical, and I recently starting interacting with the New Mexico …
Stream Rating Curves and Jupyter Notebook
I wrote this a few years ago on another blog, but I think it is still relevant so I am re-posting it here. The code is still available on Github. I worked for several years at USU on the iUTAH project. While there I managed a network of water monitoring stations along the Logan river, …
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