DrivenData is a website that hosts machine learning competitions, often involving some component of Earth Science or hydrology. In 2022, they hosted a competition sponsored by the US Bureau of Reclamation to predict snow quantity across the Western US. Although I didn’t have much experience with machine learning at the time, I decided to participate …
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In my last blog post, I tried to answer the question: How has snowfall at Sandia Peak Ski Area changed over the years? Ultimately, I want to know how climate change is affecting the future of skiing in the Sandias and to develop some sense of what weather patterns are associated with particularly good or …
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 …
