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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