Digital Maps and Relative Elevations
I have spent many years on mapping projects starting from my early days back in 1992 working on maps for The Nature Conservancy. I started at the National Zoological Park’s research labs in Front...
Monthly Archive: August 2024
Teaching Students to Design and Prototype
Working to effectively teach prototyping. The accessibility of computer assisted design (CAD) tools for 3D modeling is outstanding. Tools like Blender, Rhino, SolidWorks, and Fusiuon360 are just amazing...
Listening in on Jupiter, or at least trying to do that.
Trying to hear Jupiter Members of the Ducks on the Air Amateur radio club, a group that I advise, gathered in February 2022 to see if they could listen in on Jupiter. Is there...
The Totality of NASA Eclipse Soundscapes
Two thousand twenty-four hosted the second total eclipse crossing all the way across the USA in just seven years. From the perspective of scientists, eclipses present time for experimentation. This year was not going...
Emergency Radio Build
Emergency Radio Build In the winter of 2021, my colleague Scott Rosenfeld and I received an Amateur Radio digital communication (ARDC) grant to help fund radio equipment. This was for a new HAM radio...