Tag: Spring 2012

Title/Abstract

Beauty and the Beast: Using EarthScope, Sense of Place and the Landscapes of Our National Parks to Engage the Public on the Scenery and Geological Hazards of the United States

Presenter

Robert J. Lillie, PhD, Certified Interpretive Trainer, Emeritus Professor of Geosciences
Oregon State University
E-mail: lillier@geo.oregonstate.edu
Web: http://geo.oregonstate.edu/~lillier

Date

March 20, 2012 2 pm Dow 610

Feb 9: Ed Hall, USGS Research Biologist, Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory Colorado State University, Title: “Linking Microbial and Ecosystem Processes: what to measure and how to measure it” Thursday February 9th, 2:00 PM Rekhi Hall G06

Feb 8: Danielle Wain, University of Washington “Field observations of mixing and transport near topography in lakes and the ocean” Rekhi G06 2:00 pm

Date and Location

Feb 8, 3-4pm, Dow 642

Presenter

Dr Guy Meadows, Univ of Michigan and adjunct professor, GMES

Abstract

Over the past several years, the Ocean Engineering Laboratory (OEL) of the University of Michigan has been involved in the design, fabrication and deployment of a wide variety of Great Lakes and coastal ocean environmental monitoring platforms. These platforms are all either, semi- or fully-autonomous in the execution of their respective missions and capable of producing real-time data.  The development of these platforms offers a glimpse into the possible future of advanced aquatic sensing and long term, open water, measurement persistence. Examples of the utilization of these and other environmental sensing platforms, many developed jointly with MTU, will be provided.  Applications to a variety of Great lakes and coastal ocean environments will be discussed including searching for evidence of Paleo-Indian occupation of what is now the submerged Alpena-Amberley, central ridge of Lake Huron.