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\"\"\"Scot<\/a>As an ultramarathoner and avid hiker in some of the planet\u2019s most harsh environments, Scot Miller<\/a>,\u00a0has encountered a lot of hazards: a violent sandstorm, a charging moose, a kidney stone coming on in the middle of nowhere.<\/p>\n

For Miller, an assistant professor in the Department of Environmental Health and Engineering<\/a>, the toughest challenge was a 100-mile hike along the Wind River Range in Wyoming.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was incredibly difficult. Some days we\u2019d be walking through an alpine meadow. Other days would be climbing over boulders the size of cars. Other days we’d run into a 2,000-foot cliff and have to figure out how to get around it,\u201d says Miller. \u201cIt was difficult, but it was incredibly rewarding.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite the grueling demands of trekking hundreds of miles across rough and often isolated terrain, the biggest challenge is the preparation, says Miller.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe hardest part is figuring out what I\u2019m going to need for two weeks in the wilderness, and how I\u2019m going to pack it in such a way that I can put it all on my back and carry it every day,\u201d he says. It helps that he dehydrates all his own food, a process that can take up to two weeks in advance of a trip.<\/p>\n

Given Miller\u2019s love of the outdoors, it\u2019s no surprise that he became a climate scientist whose research focuses on understanding how greenhouse gases affect, and are affected by, the environment.<\/p>\n\"photograph<\/a>\n

\u201cMost of what I do is analyzing satellite data and doing modeling on supercomputers. But for me, it\u2019s also important to see the places that I’m trying to understand in my research. It\u2019s one thing to model ecosystems on a computer, where every tree or mountain is a pixel. It\u2019s another thing to wake up in a tent in the morning and actually get a sense of how these systems and environments function,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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