Mike Finnegan

Mike Finnegan

Affiliations: Vermont Monitoring Cooperative

Contact Information

E-mail: soren.donisvitch@uvm.edu

Biography

I was raised in the Kingdom in Irasburg, spending the vast majority of my time building forts and wandering the forests, later turning to mountain biking and skiing as means of exploring. I attended college for a short time in New Jersey, quickly realized that despite the name there were no Jersey cows there, and came running back home. UVM accepted my fleeing self and I completed a BS in computer science there. Having a CS degree, I then went to work far away from any computers for the GMC as a caretaker on Mt. Abe and trail crew for RMC in NH. That lead me to the Whites and a windy four year stint at the Mount Washington Observatory as a weather observer and IT specialist. After that, I worked on and off at the OGE before getting back into field work, working at Toolik Field Station in arctic Alaska for two summers in support of the Arctic LTER and recently spent the winter at Summit Station on the Greenland icesheet with four other folks for five months. I'm really excited to be back to the place I've always called home, feel very fortunate to have found a way to combine my programming interested with my field work experiences in a place I care so much about, and look forward to working with a bunch of really great folks! As for interests, I love biking and climbing in the summer and getting into the backcountry on my splitboard in the winter. I also love dogs, puns, and playing the harmonica, usually blues or Irish fiddle tunes. I live in Winooski with my partner, Em, and dog, Ida.

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