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 … Continue reading Heading to TPSNR Tomorrow!!! →
All, Thanks for the great group editing session in Capstone yesterday. It sounds like most…
All of my points, tracks, and shoreline data are in ArcMap now. Working on my map is slow and painful. The tracks are looking good and clearly show the shoreline eroding away. I intend to us a program called Digital Shoreline Analysis System DSAS which will help compute the rate at which the beach is eroding. … Continue reading Maps and Methods 2/8/16 →
Last Thursday I continued water quality probe training and now I just need one more training session in the field to check out the probe for my project. My goal is to check it out this weekend and survey all five sites in one day. Then I will check it out again in about a … Continue reading Water Quality Probe Training
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper is hosting a series of Refugio Oil Spill-related talks through the end of March 2016. It looks like there will be some great presentations! From their website: The Plains All American Pipeline Spill provided a harsh reminder that oil exploration, production, and transport along our coast can have significant impacts on the environment,… Read more »
The past week has consisted mostly of me piecing together the methods section of my paper. My first draft is done and I will be getting some good peer reviewed feedback on it in class today. I also continued my data collection this week and will be turning my attention more towards the analysis and comparison … Continue reading Methods Section →
Like any research, variables arise that were unplanned for. Elastic cords are used to hold the infrared cameras on a post, and apparently they were not tight enough. While my main objective is to photograph rats, the island foxes have proved themselves to be incredibly curious. One fox in Lobo Canyon was inspecting the camera, … Continue reading Unforseen Problems
This photo was taken in the upper reaches of the Water Canyon Watershed on Santa Rosa Island. In this area of the watershed, the terraces are bare with eroded soil and small pockets of bunch grasses. There are steep slopes in the top of this watershed, similar to most watersheds. Vegetation not only contributes to … Continue reading Vegetation Significance →
For the past week, I have been working on my methods section for Capstone. Also, I have received my collecting permit for TPSNR. Next weekend, I will be heading to TPSNR to collect Torrey pine pinecones for my common garden experiment. I am super excit…
This Saturday CalPoly Pomona hosted our first-ever North American Drone Educator’s Conference. Folks from across California (and a few from further afield) gathered on a warm Saturday afternoon at the Kellogg Conference Center in Pomona, California to discuss a myriad of aspects of teaching students to create, use, and become otherwise professional members of our burgeoning […]
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