Search & Rescue on a Local Scale – Radio Transmitter Hunts
This last Saturday 25 people including about 10 University of Oregon community members gathered at one of our local parks by campus to work on a transmitter hunt to find a hidden...
Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
This last Saturday 25 people including about 10 University of Oregon community members gathered at one of our local parks by campus to work on a transmitter hunt to find a hidden...
A spectrogram of bat echolocating food, recorded by the author This is a mainly a story about listening to bats, but also about computers and conservation and a few other things like physics...
Most of us are familiar with databases on at least some basic level. I maintain a database of plant and animals from Oregon just for my own interest. There are tables that have...
I have written about the advantages of a ham (amateur) radio license and the experimental opportunities that such a license leads to. Probably one of the easiest starting points with beginning to understand radio...
Species distribution models (SDM) may seem somewhat esoteric. These mathematical models take environmental data such as local weather conditions and topographic position and compare them to the point locations of an organism, whether plant...
The statistical package R, and its complement interface R-Studio, combine to form an extremely power team for statistical analysis. And, although the program is command-line driven, it is much more intuitive to use than...
I am always astounded at the tools and data that are available right at our fingertips. I recently had the opportunity to analyze a few data sets from the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest here...
J.Stephens/R.Stephens I had the honor and pleasure to work with some great colleagues this summer (June Stephens, and Joe Cerreta and Patrick Sherman from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University) on a project to show off new...
The Price Science Commons promotes research and education in a myriad of ways, from providing a makerspace were a person can develop their devices and sensors, or providing math tutors, to providing a suite...
An image from a GoPro Max 360° Spherical Video Camera Associated with the use of UAV-Quadcopters to help create virtual experiences of real places (see the last post) the Price Science Commons also...