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From ES to Oxford

Hello interested blog readers. I was asked to give a quick profile of what I've done since graduating.

UNDERGRAD

Environmental Sciences, graduated 2001.

Absolutely loved the major, especially the combination of different sciences to tackle interesting questions of societal relevance.

Active member (and President) in ESSA. Designed the first ESSA shirt.

Favorite class: Jim Kirchner's stats class.

GRAD

First did a summer internship at the EPA, Region 9 Air Division doing GIS work. Had a really great time there, and returned the following summer. Eventually published some of the work I did with them.

Went straight into a Ph.D. at Berkeley in ESPM. As much as I loved Env Sci undergrad, this was really the time to blossom, with a lot more freedom and independence.

Got a 3 year NASA Earth System Science Fellowship.

Did a summer internship at NASA Ames, followed up by GIS consulting with them for a couple of years.

Worked with Dennis Baldocchi, Greg Biging, Todd Dawson and Louise Fortmann.

Favorite class: Todd Dawson's Plant Ecophysiology class.

GSI\'d ES196! Fun to be on the "other side".

Graduated 2006.

POST-DOC

Graduating with skills in GIS and remote sensing, I could have gone directly to a professor job, as were many of my lab mates, but decided I would go do a post-doc first for the experience. The economy was strong and there would probably be plenty of jobs waiting for me at the end of the post-doc. Uh, got that one wrong...

I went with a post-doc position at Oxford University. A great opportunity to live abroad, gain new skills, and work globally on global issues.

Lots of traveling, and getting to work in the tropics - Peruvian Andes and Amazon.

I taught GIS and Remote Sensing on the Masters programs, and it turned out that I was the only one doing it so I kind of filled a good niche. Oxford valued this teaching so much that the kept me on as a lecturer when my post-doc finished.

Josh Fisher
posted June 9, 2009 11:46 AM
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