Daniel PhilippusHello world,
I'm a hydrologist working on large-domain (contiguous US) stream temperature modeling and forecasting with an emphasis on ungauged watersheds, often using remote sensing data products. I also dabble in hydraulic modeling and maintain several open-source packages for stream temperature analysis/modeling and HEC-RAS automation.
RealGravitas -Citizen Saboteur@dphilippus Welcome! Also a (retired) hydrogeologist, excited to see the results of your modeling. We had such primitive tooling in decades past. This should be fun!
@CWilbur Thank you! Tooling in statistical ST modeling has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last decade, but there's still plenty more to do.
@dphilippus New problems too!
I remember going back to school in my 40's to UF in pursuit of a PhD in Water Science. I had to take a lot of remedial classwork because my geology masters was over ten years behind me and not completely applicable to hydraulics and water chemistry. One weekend I had a set of equilibrium (H+) equations to solve and I was lamenting to my dad who was a retired chemical engineer, and he said those problems were quarterly projects when he was in school. For me it was a weekend spreadsheet problem.
@CWilbur Sounds about right. Finding the right library has caused that transformation for me in real time.
Definitely lots of new problems. My entire specialty is a new problem in the last ~20 years or so, as far as I've seen.