{"id":1240,"date":"2011-11-08T11:04:03","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T17:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=1240"},"modified":"2011-11-08T15:20:44","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T21:20:44","slug":"a-day-in-the-life-of-a-texas-climatoligist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/08\/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-texas-climatoligist\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day in the Life of a Texas Climatologist"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_1334\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 220px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/gammon.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1334\" title=\"John Nielsen-Gammon\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2011\/11\/gammon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"210\" height=\"260\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon (Photo: Texas A&amp;M)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p>John Nielson-Gammon, the state&#8217;s climatologist, has been <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2011\/11\/07\/ten-things-you-should-know-about-the-texas-drought\/\">quite busy<\/a> as of late. Our record-breaking heat and single-year drought is on the minds of citizens and lawmakers, so Nielson-Gammon&#8217;s insight is in high demand. How high? The climatologist penned this brief summary of his hectic day last week briefing the state\u00a0legislature\u00a0last week on drought issues:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Drive to Austin; arrive 1:30 AM; catch a few hours of sleep;<\/li>\n<li>Testify in a panel with leaders of the Texas Water Development Board and the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (they got all the interesting questions);<\/li>\n<li>Finish at 10:30; head back and stop for lunch at Southside BBQ in Elgin because I seemingly have some time to spare;<\/li>\n<li>Discover that rental car refuses to lock the car when I accidentally leave the key fob in my briefcase (thank goodness!);<\/li>\n<li>Notice voice mail message from university press office; learn that TV network wants to interview me back in College Station;<\/li>\n<li>Hurry back to College Station while participating in hour-long climate science education conference call;<\/li>\n<li>Prepare lab assignment and meet with visiting scientist;<\/li>\n<li>Talk with reporter from Sweden while driving to TV studio;<\/li>\n<li>Talk with reporter for 15 minutes on camera for 8-second sound bite;<\/li>\n<li>Hurry back to building and help teach the lab class;<\/li>\n<li>Attend seminar;<\/li>\n<li>Drive back to Austin that evening to be ready for the next committee hearing.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon (Photo: Texas A&amp;M) John Nielson-Gammon, the state&#8217;s climatologist, has been quite busy as of late. Our record-breaking heat and single-year drought is on the minds of citizens and lawmakers, so Nielson-Gammon&#8217;s insight is in high demand. How high? The climatologist penned this brief summary of his hectic day last week briefing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":1334,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58],"tags":[61,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1240"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1346,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240\/revisions\/1346"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}