Field Notes

Years in the field, before the pipelines.

A short visual record of the fieldwork and lab work that shaped how I think about data. Rivers to reservoirs, vernal pools to farms, drone surveys to synchrotron beamlines.

Drone equipment in the field at a vernal pool restoration site, cattle grazing in the background — Vernal pool restoration, drone survey

Two researchers with field equipment on a boat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — Delta fieldwork

Hyperspectral field spectrophotometer, calibration panel, and GPS pole set up in a wet field — Hyperspectral field spectrophotometer

Water sample bottle labeled San Luis Reservoir with syringe filtration setup — Water sampling, San Luis Reservoir

Operating a methane gas measurement instrument in the lab — Methane gas measurement

Radiation warning sign and detector dewar at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource — Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource