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LunAero: Automated “Smart” Hardware for Recording Video of Nocturnal Migration

Aeroecology/Biologging, SCIENCE!

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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Low-Cost Carbon Dioxide and Methane Gas Sensors

Precision and Limits of Detection for Selected Commercially Available, Low-Cost Carbon Dioxide and Methane Gas Sensors

chemistry, Electronics/Surfaces, SCIENCE!

My first paper from my work in graduate school has been published about the properties of low cost gas sensors entitled: Precision and Limits of Detection for Selected Commercially Available, Low-Cost Carbon Dioxide and Methane Gas Sensors.  The publication in the journal “Sensors” can be viewed directly at the publisher’s site.  The article is open …

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LaTeX Workshop

LaTeX Workshop

LaTeX, Teaching

Announcement: I will be hosting an introductory LaTeX workshop at the University of Oklahoma Bizzell Library on September 27th at 2PM central. This is the second workshop I have put on based on my off-broadway version of Software Carpentry for LaTeX. What We Cover Based on the popularity of the Software Carpentry program to introduce …

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LunAero Crowdfunding Campaign

2D CAD/Printing, Aeroecology/Biologging, Electronics/Surfaces, entrepreneurship, pretty pictures, SCIENCE!

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 …

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Sugar and Metal

chemistry

It’s a snow day here, and I’ve been busy on a project.  So this week is a quick, simple post about sugar and metal.  If you ever study metal contents in sugary solutions (in this case, a juice mimic), you should not evaporate your contents. In our lab, we never processed our waste.  However, we …

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