 So I started teaching in 1993. But I think the path to getting there was a bit of a meandering path, where I started my undergraduate degrees in geography, where I got hooked on the idea that water and difficult politics were embedded with each other, and that you could have conversations around politics through water. So I went back for a master's. I thought the key was a technical understanding. So my master's focuses on hydrogeology. I became a scientist for the US Geological Survey and found that the science was critical and not enough. And that sent me back for a PhD focusing in conflict resolution and policy analysis. And it's the combination of those really understanding that science and policy need to be bridged in the same process in order to resolve these really difficult issues. So I think water diplomacy is the bridge between science and policy. In any watershed, regardless of the scale, when you're managing water, you're managing conflict. In order to understand what's there, we start with the science. We start with the ecology and the hydrology and the water resources that are there. And understanding that is critical, but it's not enough. In order to address any of the issues that we face, we need what people involve. And people require a process, a carefully designed process where people's interests are brought to the table. Contact for dialogue is constructed in a way that allows people to bring their interests to the table and find the shared values that allow them to develop a solution. I've been coming to IHE to do an annual short course, probably for about 10 years. And I've been fortunate to be here as the dialogue and interest in water diplomacy has grown. In the last couple of years with the Dutch government and IHE and a number of other partners all very interested in this idea of water diplomacy, it turned out that there was an option to be here for six months, really, to be connected to the water diplomacy initiative and to help out however I could, both in speaking and in teaching and in advising. And it's been a wonderful experience. I've always loved coming to IHE. I like Delft. I like the institution. And it's just been a joy to be here for six months. So my day job, if you will, is as a professor of geography in the College of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. And Oregon State's a wonderful institution, but it's massive. And so water is just a small drop, if you will, of what goes on there. So the water community is tight and is good, but we need to keep reminding the administration of the centrality and importance of water to everything that goes on in an economy and in a society and a culture. And that's not the case at IHE. IHE is about water. And the wonderful thing about water people, nobody gets into it for the wrong reasons. You're not going to get rich or build a big empire around water. People generally get into water because they want to make the world a better place. So when you have a whole institution dedicated precisely to making the world a better place, it's a wonderful place to be. I always default to the truism that water management is conflict management. And if you're going to manage water at whatever level, you're going to experience conflict. The more water people who are trained in these skills at whatever level, it can be within the workplace there's going to be conflict. Between stakeholders there's going to be conflict. Between sectors, between states, and finally between countries, there's always conflict anytime we're trying to allocate a scarce resource. And so knowing the skills, knowing how to listen for the things that are shared across apparent divides, knowing how to craft a setting that's conducive to dialogue and conducive to resolving disputes, I think is useful for anybody in water and probably most people in society. So the more people who are trained in these skills, I think the better it is for water and for society as a whole.