Changing Landscapes – Charleston (OIMB), Oregon
This summer has involved a good bit of traveling with several excursions to the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology where I have been teaching several workshops. This week I taught a class on using...
Monthly Archive: July 2019
Isla Clarion – Remotely Sensed NDVI – Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
For the last several years, my personal research interests have been in the area of conservation planning for remote places. This year I picked Isla Clarion, one of the Revillagigedo Islands, and a...
Visualizing Proteins – SAIL
In conjunction with Raghu Parthasarathy’s Summer Academy to Inspire Learning (SAIL) class on biophysics, we worked with the students in the Price Science Common’s VizLab to get them to review and visually analyze...
SCGIS & Stanford’s Hopkins Marine Station
OK, so the only part of this entry that is related to me is that I worked to schedule this behind-the-scenes tour with colleagues that work at the Marine Station. It’s not much...
Ridgecrest, CA Earthquakes and Seismograms
It would be difficult to miss news about the recent Ridgecrest earthquakes in California that erupted on the Fourth of July. Five days later there have been hundreds of smaller earthquakes in same...
Documenting Art / Teach-In : Teach-Out
I am a little late with this one being that LGBT Pride Month is June and it is now early July, but I wanted to mention that the use of the Price Science Common’s...
Eclipses & Transits
Although we were not even on the same continent, we were watching the latest solar eclipse in Northern Chile on the Price Science Commons’ VizWall during the event. Just a couple of years ago...
Learning to Fly for Science, Earth Science
In support of the Geology field camp efforts of Drs. Valerie Sahakian and Ray Weldon of the University of Oregon’s Earth Sciences Department, I was asked to help them teach students how to...