High School Engineering
One of my fun outreach programs is an engineering club at a local high school, Sheldon. We have built robots, rockets, and radios. Now students are building remote control airplanes. These are relatively cheap...
Category: sensor systems
Three Billion Birds – It’s a Big Number
Three billion birds – It’s a big number A recent report published in the journal Science indicates that there are 3 billion less birds flying around North America today than there were in...
Arduino Environmental Sensor Systems
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...
Exploring the Troposphere/Stratosphere – High Altitude Ballooning
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...
ARLISS Autonomous Navigating Robots 2019 – Trekking Across the Desert
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...
PNSN – The Pacific Northwest Seismic Network – Shaking us into action
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...
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...
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...
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...