Projects from the DeArmond Makerspace, Price Science Commons, and Dean Walton
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...
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...
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...
So, in the University of Oregon DeArmond MakerSpace, in preparation for one event that probably won’t happen, but also for another event that likely will, we have been working on our beacon systems...
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...
In partnership with the University of Oregon STEMCORE program and the Oregon Science Teachers Association, the Price Science Commons hosted a workshop on building environmental sensors. I led the session with the help...
The University of Oregon has a new center in the School of Journalism and Communication. It’s called the Media Center for Science and Technology. The goal of the center is to train journalists, communicators,...
Helium Filling Team We are always trying to improve the skills of our university community members. This week under the inspiration of Mark Fonstad from the Geography Department we trained a few colleagues on...
The UOregon Rover Once again our ARLISS (A Rocket Launch for international Student Satellites) team from the University of Oregon competed in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada. This annual event is inspirational for...
We are quite lucky here at the University of Oregon to have a node of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. The colleagues here are wonderful and always willing to help explain the seismic activity...