Hurricanes! Data!
Hurricanes are on my mind for two reasons today: First, there is a tropical storm moving over my research project in Revillagigedo Islands off the western coast of Mexico, and second, I am preparing...
Category: GIS Mapping
RoboSub International Competition – San Diego
Arizona State University Polytechnic It was fun to check out the RoboSub competition at NIWC Pacific TRANSDEC, in San Diego this week. The event challenges students to build a submersible vehicle that can autonomously...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Accessing Satellite Imagery – A Primer on Remote Sensing
Today, I had a blast giving a workshop on acquiring and analyzing remotely sensed (satellite) imagery as it relates to marine and coastal research that is ongoing at the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology...
UAV Imagery – Autzen Stadium and Much More!
In preparation for several upcoming workshops on UAVs/Drones that I am offering through the Price Science Commons and Research Library, I needed to update the geofencing on the UO Library’s DJI Phantom IV...
Pollution on the Willamette – An Earth Day talk with James Hillegas-Elting
I was excited to see my colleague James Hillegas-Elting speak here on campus on Earth Day regarding his work on the Willamette River. He wrote a book on the river and its polluted past...
What is Technology? – UO
Just back from the “What is Technology?” Conference up in Portland, Oregon this Weekend. What a trip. The conference was wonderful, and I met some very interesting folks and had some great conversations. ...