Deandre Presswood is no stranger to digging himself out of deep snow – literally. A graduate student at the University of Nevada, Reno, he’s studying snow hydrology and giving others a glimpse of the field’s quirks through his Instagram page, @hydrosciguy.
“Often I have experiences where I’m like, yeah, we’re out of the woods – is like a reality for me. Getting out of the woods is a reality,” he told 2 News Nevada, smiling, during an interview in his laboratory.
He’s navigated steep, icy hills, dug equipment out of heavy snow, and fixed equipment on-the-fly in the Sierra Nevada wilderness. In one of his social media videos, he shows viewers his process for rewiring a solar panel providing power to a research site deep in the mountains…