The next race on the calendar will be the Cascade Cycling Classic.  A grueling three day stage race nestled in the heart of Bend, Oregon.   For more information, point your browser here: http://www.mbsef.org/CascadeStageRace/index.cfm. 

Fiber-optic distributed temperature sensing (DTS) has great potential for spatial monitoring in hydrology and atmospheric science. DTS systems have an advantage over conventional individual temperature sensors in that thousands of quasi-concurrent temperature measurements may be made along the entire length of a fiber at 1 meter increments by a single instrument, thus increasing measurement precision and spatial representativeness of the measurements. However, like any other temperature sensors, the fiber temperature is influenced by energy exchange with its environment, particularly by radiant energy (solar and long-wave) modulated by wind speed.