I’ve been working closely with colleagues in the region to vet my results, compare with their existing knowledge, and identify areas for improvement before I present at CIEP in Coyhaique November 9.

I’ve made two trips to the field to maintain my meteorological stations, measure flow, and download data. I will make two more trips to the field to download data before passing the maintenance of the stations onto CIEP. I will continue to improve and refine my results with informal peer review in the coming weeks.

I’ve been increasingly having informal conversations with farmers, community members, and other rural residents describing my work and hearing how it relates to their experiences with the land, especially with regard to climate, streamflow, groundwater, and frozen ground.

These have been tremendously insightful conversations, and I can’t help but think that I would like to extend my project specifically to spend more time with rural farmers, ranchers, water users etc. documenting these conversations and producing podcasts to share their knowledge and close relationships to the land.