I am off and running on the Volunteer work I am doing for the GaugeCam GRIME Lab. I am now automatically downloading images from the USGS HIVIS KOLA camera site and plan to see if I can write Python code to measure the water level in images with only a very small octagon in them (less than the width of a typical staff gauge) to be used for creating a pixel to world coordinate calibration model. I did not think I would be so energized on this project, but it is very gratifying and a lot more enjoyable without the time pressure associated with the work I did for my PhD. We are going to try to start off just with small, finite length project with specific research goals in mind and see how that goes.