Rwanda Telecommunications Upgrade
A Month in the Rain Forest
October – November 2008
This was my second trip to Nyungwe National Park. This time, the task at hand was the installation of two repeaters in the park, which included two fairly good mountain ascents.  The project was part of a USAID effort administered by [...]

Bhakra Beas Management Board Decision Support System for Satluj and Beas River Basins
in the Himalaya Mountains of India
March-April 2009

I never even dreamed that I would visit the Himalaya, less work there.  Now, I will work in the Himalaya over the next two years, taking six trips in total. The specific area is the eastern most [...]

Flood Warning System- Aqaba, Jordan
February 2009
This is my first trip to the Middle East.  This is a USAID funded project to provide a flash flood warning system in the mountains above Aqaba, Jordan (at least the part I am involved with). Aqaba, Jordan rests on the Gulf of Aqaba, which feeds into the Red [...]

Australia Part II, 2005
Hello family, friends, and anyone else who may stumble on the page.  This is my sequel to my first page, which I put together in June 2004.  I started my time in Australia in May, just as the northern hemisphere was moving out of winter, just in time to [...]

These are pictures from my first month in and about the Snowy Mountains, working with Snowy Hydro in New South Wales, Australia.
First, a few little facts about Australia.  Australia boasts a population of nearly 20 million people, which is less than the State of Texas, and less than the population of just Southern [...]

Colombia 2007
Colombia, South America.  This was my third trip down here.  There is plenty of work in my field, which is all good.  I was warned by almost everyone I spoke to about traveling down here, but I found the land very pleasant, and the climate much unexpected.  I spent most of the time in [...]

Tales of Rwanda 2007

Rwanda! This my first trip to Africa.  I worked in the Nyungwe National Park which is located in the south-west corner of Rwanda. My work entailed the modernization of the radio communications infrastructure within the park so that park rangers could effectively do their job in tracking wildlife, deterring poachers, and generally [...]

Objective:
Evaluate surface monitoring network for a collaborative effort to improve measurement of hydrologic and meteorologic parameters. Perform site survey of existing equipment and provide recommendations to EMGESA, ACUEDUCTO, and CAR which represent environmental and power generation concerns in Colombia, South America.
Consider telecommunications infrastructure that will allow the operation of the network over a large [...]

Objective:
The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service of the Republic of Croatia requested assistance to develop a comprehensive plan for the modernization of the national meteorological and hydrological observational networks as well as for modernization of other infrastructure components for weather, water, and environmental monitoring and forecasting capabilities. The efforts included:
Activities undertaken include:

Evaluation of radar [...]

Objective:
The Bulgarian Government requested assistance in the development of a national environmental and flood monitoring system. This system would augment the capabilities developed in the ongoing Integrated Emergency Management System that is already supported. Bulgaria lacked the ability to detect and respond to environmental disasters. Major flood along the Danube River had historically [...]