Weekly AARR Meeting on 2/12/16

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Today marked our second weekly AARR meeting since our lead technician Paul Spaur moved on to his new career. Despite missing Paul, he luckily left our lab in pristine working order, leaving us with little to repair. Our goal for this meeting was to finish up our Pufferfish ROV control boxes for our BWET mentoring program, and was overall a success.

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Our AARR lab is continuing to grow, with new students joining us from our ESRM 370 “Remotely Piloted Systems” class. The ESRM 370 class today was very special, starting with an inspiring speech and visit from CSUCI’s President Rush. After, we had an informative presentation regarding the legal side of UAVs, given to us by Jonathan Rupprecht.

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The AARR lab is now looking forward to new projects in the coming weeks, including more mapping, building, and of course soldering.

ENVI Access

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I found out some good news today from professor Patsch. I will have access to ENVI from a school computer in about a week or less, which will allow me to do the Dark Object Subtraction from all map years. Atmospheric Correction

Heading to TPSNR Tomorrow!!!

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I am so excited that my TPSNR collection permit went through! I will be heading to TPSNR tomorrow to collect Torrey pine pinecones. While collecting the cones, I will record the location of the tree that the cones are collected from on a GPS device. Once, I am finish collecting the Torrey pine pinecones, I will then remove the seeds, which are going to be used in my common gardens experiment. These seeds will then be planted this Tuesday, February 16, 2016, in the CSU Channel Islands greenhouse.

You can see a drop of sap dripping off of the pinecone.
You can see a drop of sap dripping off of the pinecone.