Two things:
I posted an album online of some of my favorite photos of the last two years. It can be found at http://picasaweb.google.com/jessnjen
Also, during the last year and a half, I have been involved in a writing experience. I was asked to be the author of a chapter in a textbook that is being published tomorrow through Taylor and Francis CRC press. The book is called Understanding Forest Distrubance and Spatial Pattern: GIS and Remote Sensing Approaches. My chapter was, of course, about mapping burn severity in forested ecosystems. If you've got an extra $100, buy a copy from the publisher or from Amazon.
I've also been contacted by McGraw Hill about a publication they create for high school students about careers. I guess this thing gets seen by 1,000,000 high school students (18,000 schools) annually. Part of the publication is a profile of people in certain careers. They are particularly interested in young professionals (good thing I'm not as old as Chelsey, because they wanted someone between 25 and 30). So, I had to fill out a questionairre and send in some photos. I hope to heck this thing makes it so Spanish Fork High so Gillian and Kaitlin can see me in all my fire glory (the pictures I sent in are from our field trips to fires).
On an unfortunate career note, we were contacted by National Geographic (yes, the National Geographic) earlier this spring because they were doing a piece about wildfires. They wanted to do a sidebar highlighting the use of remote sensing to map and fight wildfires, so they got a hold of us. After a month of working with them (giving them quotes, sending photos and satellite images), they decided their August issue was not going to have room, so we got cut. I was hoping that would have made it through, but alas, I can't brag about National Geographic.
2 comments:
Jess, that is very cool. Will they use your article another time? It's pretty cool that they targeted you for the career spotlight. You must be doing something right.
Don't think that me or my name is a draw for anyone. Rather, people call our office knowing we serve wildfires, and these calls get funnelled to me. They don't know me from Adam (no, not that Adam, but that Adam).
The high school pub call came into a coworker of mine, but he was too old. So he gave her my name. It's a combination of having a cool job in a cool office and still being somewhat young.
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