May 7, 2015

Reclaiming Agenda

Reading a book "The Motivational Manifesto" by Brendon Burchard, he mentioned that one of the important characteristics of high achiever, in whatsoever work (or field), is the claim of  agenda of life, and clarity on the purpose of their work. It is true that life with no clear agenda could not be a charged life. This is even more applicable in research that, spending fraction of time here and there, and diffuse attention allover, does not help a researcher to be high achiever.  As young hydrologist, I tends  to wonder around in many aspect of the subject, of course to those interesting too learn, but that probably would limit my achievement and research result production. Though it is early to clearly define my life time research agenda, I would like to start tune to some of the following general subjects:
  • Understanding  hydrological processes ( rainfall-runoff processes, Evapotranspiration processes, ecohydrology) 
  • Estimating water balance at the basin scale (all the sciences and efforts to improve estimation of water cycle components such as remote sensing, interpolation skills, data assimilation)
  • Understanding the interaction of Vegetation-Geomorphology-Hydrology (Eco-Hydro-Geomorphology )
  • Excel in the use of tools and program(ing) languages  that are important for spatial analysis such as GIS, R, and Java. 
Of course they all are interrelated.


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