This has been a productive year. We lonely hydrologists date groundwater, and finding its subsurface travel times is a helpful activity toward understanding the effect of increased pumping. Last summer I spent a month in Costa Rica working with scientists from the Universidad National in Heredia. I also had time on weekends to visit active volcanoes, the rainforest, beaches, and kayak a class four river. This academic year I had several student field trips to the Grand Canyon, and other locations such as Hoover Dam, and the Las Vegas Valley Water District intake treatment plant on Lake Mead.
Life continues to be an adventure.
I developed and taught two new classes this year. Introduction to GIS and Advanced Spatial Modeling. The modeling course focused on the development of a spatially-distributed flood model for the Las Vegas Basin. An abstract from this semester s class was submitted to the national GSA meeting in Denver. I continue to work on the development of computer models of geomorphic systems.