>> There's never a dull moment.
Things are always moving.
It's never changing -- or it's always changing.
And I work with a great bunch of professionals, great bunch of people that have allowed me
to stretch, use, you know, the degree here I earned
at Penn State many years ago and build on that.
And it's a fun place to work.
Oh, some of the bigger challenges we face is dealing with that variability in the weather
and being able to know what's coming at us is challenging sometimes,
especially since you have a big vast ocean.
So there's not a lot of data between the Pacific coast and, you know, Russia, and Japan,
so we have to use a lot of satellite imagery and sometimes quick decisions,
quick changes to forecasts happen.
And then that can have a pretty big impact on the system.
So it's challenging, and there are days where you think you're dealing with one thing,
and then a few hours later, you're dealing with something completely different.