Seaweed
Seaweeds Documenting your stuff is useful and sometimes quite important, and a seaweed collection certainly comes under the category of stuff. The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology sits in the Coos Bay region of...
Category: Conservation – Biodiversity
Early History of UO Research: A Glimmer of the Ocean
THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE OREGON INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY (OIMB) The Oregon institute of Marine Science has had a very interesting life. The University of Washington’s Friday Harbor was a likely inspiration...
Seeing the Unhearable, A Digression on Listening to Bats
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...
The Power of Graph Databases as Explored via an Alaskan Food Web
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...
MaxEnt Species Distribution Modelling
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...
Maps with animation: Bird movements in the HJ Andrews Experimental Forest
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...
Emerging Technology & Digital Bird Nests
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...
Seeing the Heat of the World
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...
The Benefit of HAM Radio
A set of 2-meter / 70-cm Handheld radios with some other functions including GPS, temperature, FM Radio, and APRS tracking, a 10-meter radio, a 2-meter radio beacon, a remote camera and other odds and...
Eugene City Nature Challenge 2020
This last weekend was the 2020 City Nature Challenge. I blogged about the event last year, but it is such great event that I am covering it again this year. It involves the organismal...