Lucas Livingstone’s Research In Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, Lucas Livingstone participated in the OU First Year Research Engagement (FYRE) program. Lucas, a Petroleum Engineering student at OU, performed research with me at the Outdoor Urban Air Quality Testing Lab (OU AQTLab). I have previously discussed the research with Lee Fithian at AQTLab on this …
SICB Paper: Radar Aeroecology with LunAero Since I was an invited speaker for SICB 2022, I published a paper on radar aeroecology with LunAero in conjunction with the seminar. In this paper, my co-authors an I discuss a clever method that we extract the estimated flight ceiling of birds from radar. Since the LunAero open-source …
Tom Spicer Lab Greets OU Researchers Recently, my colleagues at OU and I visited the Tom Spicer lab at the University of Arkansas. Our team at OU is interested in performing some tests in low speed wind tunnels to compare with larger scale experiments conducted at OU-AQTLab. This work is an offshoot of the XGEM …
Theory and Practice of Creating Okular Digital Signatures in Ubuntu Recently, I needed to sign and return some documents, but I realized that there was no simple documentation for how to use the new Okular digital signatures in Ubuntu. Digital signatures have long been available to those using Adobe Acrobat for PDFs, but the ability …
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 …