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Coastal Commission Pushback

To say that the California Coastal Commission has been in something of an upheaval in recent months is an understatement.  The insanity even rubbed off on me and one of the boards I serve on (but that is a story for later).  The ouster of the Commission’s Executive Director in closed-doored session and with barely… Read more »

FAA Lets Students Fly!

May the 4th Be With Us Apparently the FAA is populated by Star Wars fans as they took this unofficial Star Wars Day to give a huge nod of support to students learning to loose the earthly bonds of gravity. The announcement at the AVUSI conference in New Orleans was made with typical FAA understatement.  Most […]

Poster finalized and the end is in sight!

After spending way too much time on my poster for SAGE, I am finally happy with it and it feels good to have it done. Now I can focus on my presentation for SCAS this weekend and then on finishing up my thesis paper. 19 days left of my undergraduate career! Keep up good work … [Read more…]

Infauna Conclusions

This week concluded my analysis of the infauna data I collected at Port Hueneme. I found that the average heterogeneity(H’) increases during the nourishment of the beach, which is not at the natural levels of H’. Also, post nourishment created a lag in Heterogeneity. This could affect the snowy plovers nesting.

Drone Fishing

  As someone who often does way too much and who has his hands in way too many pies at any one time, I am used to doing one project today and then a totally separate endeavor the next.  But with an increasingly disturbing regularity, my “separate” worlds appear to be merging.  Case in point […]

sUSB Expo 2016

This week I had the pleasure of attending my first Small Unmanned Systems Business Exposition in San Francisco’s Presidio.  This annual confab of the drone industry is hosted by sUAS News and the brainchild of its head honcho Patrick Egan.  I am usually not a big fan of industry meetings and wasn’t entirely sure what […]

Posters!

The last couple of weeks, I have been working on my poster for my capstone class. This poster will be presented at SAGE research conference at CSU Channel on Saturday, May 14th. Here is a sneak peak of what I will be presenting on.