And I chose to continue to be a runner and have a career on that side instead of going after the Ph.D.ĭRI: Tell me more about your competitive running career. I was also still competing a lot – I was still running very seriously in the 90s and into the 2000s, so I had to make some choices. I never really felt a ton of pressure to get my PhD. I’m pretty proud of the fact that I became a director with a master’s. What I hope to have inspired here is that with your master’s, you can still go pretty far at DRI. So, despite everyone calling me doctor all these years, I’m not. You know, I have a master’s degree, not a Ph.D. And it just kind of took off from there - it was very rewarding. I started off working on an air quality project, and then I started doing a lot of stuff with water, biology, and vegetation. I think one of the things that really helped me is that in the GIS/remote sensing field, there are opportunities to work on a lot of diverse projects. Minor: Yep, I stayed at DRI for 31 years. We have a Jonathan Davis scholarship in DEES in his name. The sad part was that I was really looking forward to working with Jonathan Davis - his wife worked with me at my mining company - but they were involved in a horrible car accident a couple of months before I got to DRI Jonathan was tragically killed. I didn’t know quite how that would work, but things just kind of fell in place. He was one of my teachers at UNR and I was really looking forward to working with him, Dave Mouat, and some of the other amazing people at DRI. There was a guy named Jonathan Davis who was a mentor of mine. While I was working for them, I started meeting some people from DRI, and I just thought it was an amazing place.
I got an offer to come up to Reno in 1989 to work for a mining company that needed a geologic remote sensing person. I only stayed two years, finished off my degree and went back to grad school at U.C. Minor: Well, I grew up in Pacific Grove, California, and went to Monterey Peninsula College, and then got a scholarship to come to the University of Nevada.
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