This week I attended the largest conference I’ve ever been to – AGU, or the American Geophysical Union, in Washington DC. I was one of 20,000 people in attendance.

Themes at this conference ranged from space, to terrestrial ecosystems, to aquatic ecosystems, to ancient ecosystems… it was very all-encompassing (and a little overwhelming). One day I sat in a session about exploring the search for water on Mars then left to listen to a talk on paleoclimate dating procedures.

My poster session was a four-hour block on Wednesday morning. Based on other conferences I had attended, I was planning on standing near my poster for some of it, and then when things seems to die down, explore other posters. Well, I did not leave my poster for the entire 4-hour session! When I’d finished giving my research pitch to one person, another curious person would arrive.

I met a diversity of people studying snow from various angles and had the experience of chatting with two people from the institute from which my research design was based!

Afterwards, my advisor Paul Bierman took me out to lunch as a congratulations. All in all, an exhausting yet exiting day.

Tags: AGU, AGU 2018, poster, skiing, snow storage, winter, wood chips

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