It's the end of my last day with Jim and crew at GAC and I thought I would take this time to reflect on the past three years with GAC and with PTAP.
It was a hot and muggy (typical) August day in 2007 that I started working with Jim. It was a project down in Brandywine with 90% humidity on a 100 degree day. We were surveying a wooded lot with poison ivy everywhere and briars taller than I. It was also my first introduction to Scott. Somehow I managed through the day and despite better judgement (haha) I came back again the next day!
Since that day I have worked on numerous CRM projects with Jim and have been heavily involved with PTAP on many levels. An ongoing shovel test survey, surface collection and two field sessions later, I can say that Port Tobacco has become like a second home to me and the people I have met and worked with there like family.
I was a wide-eye "rookie" when I started but Jim and everyone involved with GAC and PTAP have helped me grow as a professional and as a person.
I hope to continue the great work PTAP has done in graduate school and beyond.
I truly am grateful for my time here. I will miss you all.
So until we meet again in the field, at a conference, in a bar, or elsewhere...it's time to say goodbye!
With great admiration and affection,
Peter
Good luck Pete! I'll never forget our first meeting either.
ReplyDeleteIt has been a great three years,but rather than being the end, Pete's graduate school adventure is just a natural progression. Pete remains part of PTAP...our readers should feel free to write to him and to annoy him...I certainly will.
ReplyDeleteJim