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 …
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, …
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 …
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. …
UnCanny edge detector paper My second paper from my postdoctoral work at the Biosurvey has been published titled: UnCanny: Exploiting Reversed Edge Detection as a Basis for Object Tracking in Video. This paper, published in the Journal of Imaging discusses the novel edge detection algorithm I made for the LunAero project. You can view this …
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LunAero Paper Description My first paper from my postdoctoral work at the Oklahoma Biological Survey has been published on the open-source hardware I designed to record birds crossing the moon entitled: LunAero: Automated “Smart” Hardware for Recording Video of Nocturnal Migration. We published it in HardwareX, so it is open access and available directly at …
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LunAero This week, the University of Oklahoma Aeroecology Biologging group started a crowdfunding campaign for LunAero: an automated lunar bird tracking device. Since this is one of the projects I’m spearheading as part of my postdoctoral position in the lab of Dr. Eli Bridge, I’d like to walk through the current design here. Take a …