Teaching Meteorology Instrumentation In the Spring 2022 semester my colleague from GeoCarb, Elizabeth Spicer, and I escaped the lab and went teaching meteorology instrumentation. Each year, the OU METR 3613 Meteorological Measurement Systems class hosts a workshop. On that day, the students leave the classroom setting to meet with subject experts. Members of research groups …
Getting my UAS License I am now a pilot as I got my UAS license. I pursued the license as a result of the XGEM project. Getting the UAS license was much easier than I expected. I purchased a copy of the ASA test prep booklet and spent about a week learning the rules. I …
Moon-watching Featured in Popular Science My work on automated bird migration, tracking and moon-watching featured in Popular Science. The article on modernizing the technique came to the attention of Popular Science author Charlotte Hu, and she requested an interview with my colleagues and I to discuss our project. We spoke on the LunAero project …
Invited to speak: SICB 2022 Seminar This January, I was invited to speak at the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology (SICB) 2022 seminar for Open-Source Hardware in Biology. I was invited based on my work with Eli Bridge on the LunAero project. But, what was really exciting for me was this is my first, …
The XGEM team visited Devon recently to learn more about how the oil extraction giant operates their well pads in the Anadarko Basin. My colleagues and I were given an opportunity to drive out to one of their modern sites to look at how wells pull fluid up from deep reservoirs. The process has changed …
Bridge Lab Antenna Winding During my time as a postdoc in Eli Bridge’s lab, I developed a custom antenna winding peg. This design has been sitting in my folders for a while, but I recently posted it on Thingiverse. There is not much to the design of this part. A little channel shape funnels wire …
On Sustainability as a Cyber-Physical-Social System I was asked to deliver a seminar for Farrokh Mistree and Janet Allen’s Conversations series on September 17th, 2021. This talk goes over the necessity and goals of the XGEM project related to sustainability as a cyber-physical-social system. Per my modus operandi, I have made the slides (and code) …
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Meteorology Internship Starts Jan. 2022 A proposal I submitted to the Oklahoma Center for the Advancement of Science and Technology (OCAST) to pay for a meteorology internship position was funded! The proposal was written in partnership between the myself, Xiao-Ming Hu at OU’s Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS), and Flogistix LLC. …
Deploying Gas Sensors for Urban Canyons As part of my collaborative work on the XGEM project, some of older sensors are getting new life. I have deployed several of the original models and some new custom devices at a simulated urban canyon. My colleagues in Architecture such as Lee Fithian and Wenwen Cheng are interested …
XGEM Big Idea Challenge In February this year, my colleagues and I across the OU campus formed the XGEM Big Idea Challenge team. The full name of the project is Enhancing Future Community Sustainability via Greenhouse Gas Emission Monitoring. You can view the press release here. The E-C-S phonetically sounds like “X”, hence the acronym. …