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...
Category: Science education
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...
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 STEM Power of Rocketry
Rocketry, at the high-power level, really offers lots of opportunities for STEM learning. I have been involved with L1 and L2 rocketry for more than a decade and the DeArmond Makerspace in Price Science...
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...
Software Defined Radio – SDR
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...
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...
Fun with R-Studio and the Lubridate Library
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...
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...