 I'm Karen Schuckman and I'm the lead faculty for the remote sensing and earth observation certificate program at Penn State and these are my friends Isabella and Harley and Horses are really an important part of my story about how I became a photogrammetrist and end up being An instructor here at Penn State when I was in high school I was an Olympic gymnast and a national merit scholar And I had a lot of choices about where to go to school although at that time there were no scholarships or varsity gymnastics In college for women. Thanks Isabella So I came I did come to school here. I was actually a meteorology major and I learned to ride horses not far from here over in the Oak Hall quarry. I moved to California at a certain point and lived outside of Fresno and To make a long story short ended up owning a small horse ranch with harness racing horses and where it was just a horse trainer and a mom at the time and I There was an accident on our farm that sort of caused me to have a little bit of do a reality check on my professional life and At the local University Cal State Fresno They happened to have a really good program in their civil engineering department that included surveying and photogrammetry I worked in private industry and surveying mapping for almost 20 years and reached a point in my life where I decided I was I was ready to do something a little bit different part of the reason that I came to teach at Penn State is because of my Love for this area and the landscapes. We're actually standing in my front yard and right in front of my home office so not only am I using this area as a way of teaching you about remote sensing, but I'm also Able to communicate my real appreciation and love for the beauty of the landscape here in central, Pennsylvania so here I am and I Hope to stay here for a long time to come and get to meet many of you as you become my students