Nice interface for comparing before and after shots of Irene
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/storms/irene/Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Coastal Change Hazards: Hurricanes and Extreme Storms
Great primer on coastal hazards. Looking forward to their upcoming posts of data from Irene.
http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/cch.phpMonday, August 29, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Tweet Waves vs. Seismic Waves | Wired Science | Wired.com
Really interesting post examining and comparing the nature of a seismic wave to a electronic tweets about it.
For Immediate Release: Hurricane Irene Opens New Inlets on Hatteras Island
This just in from our associates at PSDS. Several new inlets formed along the OBX due to Irene.
August 28, 2011
For Immediate Release: Hurricane Irene Opens New Inlets on Hatteras Island
Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
Western Carolina University
Personnel from the Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines (PSDS) are actively surveying the North Carolina coast following the passage of Hurricane Irene. Center Director Dr. Rob Young completed a surveillance flight of the northern Outer Banks Sunday morning and filed the following brief report of storm impacts:
1) In general the storm did little damage to ocean front property along the northern Outer Banks. Some dune scarping is visible, but storm surge was less then expected. Even so, Hurricane Irene has opened a new inlet just south of the freshwater ponds on Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on Hatteras Island [Images IreneInlet1-3.jpg] (lat:35.684185, lon:-75.482329). The inlet is not as large as the so-called "Isabel Inlet", but at flight time there was continued tidal exchange and filling in the inlet will require some time. There is also a small breach of the island just north of Rodanthe (MirloInlet.jpg) in the Mirlo Beach area (lat 35.607286, lon: -75.465431). Maintaining Highway 12 in light of even small storms like Hurricane Irene has become an unending challenge for NCDOT. It certainly makes one wonder about the planned replacement of the Bonner Bridge. Even if we can build an immovable Bridge, will there be a road left to connect to?
2) The $30+ Million beach nourishment project at Nags Head has survived the storm, although there certainly has been some loss of sand along the beach. The degree of loss is difficult to assess "on the fly" from the air. PSDS Associate Director Andy Coburn flew the beach on August 25, two days before the hurricane. Before images of the Nags Head project are currently available at https://picasaweb.google.com/psdspix and after images will be available at psds.shutterfly.com on Monday. In our judgment, Hurricane Irene would not have caused significant damage to any properties, with or without the new beach.
3) The primary impact from Hurricane Irene to the North Carolina Outer Banks was from significant soundside flooding impacting many areas of Duck, Kitty Hawk, Collington Village, Roanoke Island, and others. Much of this water has filled natural swales and dips on the backside of the islands, and will be around for some time.
Additional updates will be coming. Rob Young can be reached at ryoung@email.wcu.edu or 828-506-2216. Andy Coburn can be reached at acoburn@wcu.edu or 828-227-3027.
Research & Graduate Faculty
Associate Director, Program for the Study of Developed Shorelines
Western Carolina University
294 Belk
Cullowhee, NC 28723
tel: 828-227-3027
http://psds.wcu.edu
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Hurricane IRENE QuickLook, POSTED 06:00 EDT 08/28/2011
Water level and wind and pressure plots for a number of stations up and down the coast.
http://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/quicklook/data/IRENE.htmlSaturday, August 27, 2011
HD video from pre storm flight
First of several video segments I am uploading to youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADJPe2ZAz4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADJPe2ZAz4
Friday, August 26, 2011
Mapping Hurricane Irene
August 26, 2011 6:39 PM
by Lat
Mapping Hurricane Irene
With Hurricane Irene headed towards the East Coast of the United States, the Google Crisis Response team has assembled a collection of map data to help you keep track of the storm. From this map, you're able to get most recent hurricane-related information from such sources as NOAA's National Hurricane Center and FEMA.
To help explore this information, we've created the Google Crisis Map, a map viewer with the latest available geographic information. Here's some more information about the map's content and features:
- Google Crisis Map always shows the latest, valuable information we've been able to uncover on the most current situation
- You can zoom and pan the map using the on-screen controls, and turn layers of information on or off just by clicking
- You can find out more about the map layers by visiting the linked websites of the content owners
- The site is optimized for mobile, so you can look at the map on a mobile phone as well as your desktop
- You can also share the map, or embed it on your website or blog by clicking share to find the URL and HTML code
Hurricane Irene map viewer
To provide feedback or comments on the map, or if you're aware of map layers or other datasets that you would like to see included on our maps, please submit them for our consideration at google.org/crisismap. We'll continue to update the Crisis Response website with other valuable resources on Hurricane Irene and relevant preparedness tips.
To view the projected and historical path of Hurricane Irene in Google Earth you can visit the Google Earth Gallery or download the KML file.
We hope these tools help keep you and organizations better informed about diaster preparedness.
Posted by Susannah Raub, Tech Lead, Google Maps API
weather disaster response Google Maps
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
NOAA provides easy access to historical hurricane tracks
http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2011/20110825_hurricanetracks.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
More tools to help track Hurricane Irene
August 26, 2011 7:58 AM
by Google Earth Blog
More tools to help track Hurricane Irene
A few days ago we shared some tools to help you track Hurricane Irene in Google Earth. With the storm now bearing down on the east coast of the United States, we thought we've show you a few more ways to track its progress.
GEB Weather Tools
A great place to start is with our collection of Weather tools. While there are a lot of useful tools to be found in there, of particular interest is the hurricane tracking predictions you can find if you follow the following steps inside of the KMZ file:
- Large Collection of Atlantic Weather Overlays
- Tropical Atlantic Overlays
- Hurricane Model Data
- North Atlantic Basin
- Hurricane Irene
- North Atlantic Basin
- Hurricane Model Data
- Tropical Atlantic Overlays
Live Hurricane Hunter Data
A few years ago, we showed you the hurricane hunter recon data which is collected and produced by the folks at Tropical Atlantic. Their KMZ file is updated in near real-time during missions, and you can view historical data as well. Shown below is a run they did yesterday, showing wind speeds from various areas of the hurricane. You can click any of the colored barbs to view detailed statistics for that location at that time. The amount of data available through their system is quite staggering.
Google Earth's Built-in Tools
Finally, as we mentioned earlier this week, you can always use the tools built-in to Google Earth. The data isn't as detailed as some of the other sources, but it's easier to access to get a quick look at things. Under the "weather" layer you'll find satellite and radar imagery, and enabling the "places" layer will reveal an icon on top of the hurricane which can be clicked for more information.
As always, please let us know if you're aware of any other great Google Earth-based tools for tracking Hurricanes, and we'll be sure to pass along the information to our readers.
Weather
Dr. Art Trembanis
Associate Professor
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Pre-Irene Flight Survey (first 500 images)
MobileMe and Flicker only allow 500 photos at a time so this will have to come in installments…
Long Island pre-storm flight track
Here is the flight track from Ashley's flight today along Long Island. Way to go Ashley now we have a great baseline before the storm.
Pre-Irene Flight line
Here is the flight line we took today along the Delaware Shore including the Bay all the way to Ocean City inlet. We then did a return line over Cape May and up the NJ side of the Bay.
Photos and HD video were recorded and will be coming soon.
Thursday, August 25, 2011
Hurricane Tracker - weather.com
Nice interactive map of storm conditions and forecasts available at weather.com
Monday, August 22, 2011
MotorBoating
We've been contacted recently by the folks at Survice Engineering who are developing the ARGUS system...a bit picture concept piece below.
http://www.motorboating.com/articleHtml.jsp?ID=1000087482
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
More Stanford Computing Courses Go Free
Why buy the cow when the CS course is free...
August 21, 2011 3:56 PM
by samzenpus
More Stanford Computing Courses Go Free
mikejuk writes "Following on the recent Slashdot item on the availability of a free Stanford AI course there is news that two other Stanford Computer Science courses are also joining in this 'bold experiment in distributed education' in which students not only have access to lecture videos and other course materials but will actively participate by submitting assignments and getting regular feedback on their progress. The subjects are Machine Learning with Andrew Ng and Database with Jennifer Widom. This open approach looks as if it might be a success with well over 100,000 prospective students signing up to the AI course alone."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
education
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa
Who colonized who...
August 22, 2011 9:26 AM
by Soulskill
Earth Ejecta Could Seed Life On Europa
KentuckyFC writes "Various astronomers have studied how far rocks can travel through space after being ejected from Earth. Their conclusion is that it's relatively easy for bits of Earth to end up on the Moon or Venus, but very little would get to Mars because it would have to overcome gravity from both the Sun and the Earth. Now, the biggest ever simulation of Earth ejecta confirms this result — with a twist. The simulation shows that Jupiter is a much more likely destination than Mars. So bits of Earth could have ended up on Jovian satellites such as Europa. Astrobiologists estimate that Earth's hardiest organisms can survive up to 30,000 years in space, which means that if conditions are just right, Earth ejecta could seed life there."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
earth
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach
August 22, 2011 12:49 PM
by Soulskill
World's Oldest Fossils Found On Australian Beach
sciencehabit writes "Researchers say they have discovered the fossils of 3.4-billion-year-old cells in between the cemented sand grains of an ancient beach in Western Australia, possibly the oldest fossils ever found (abstract). Chemical analyses of the minerals near the cells suggest the microorganisms depended on sulfur for fuel. Such a beach might have been life's first breeding ground, one author says."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
earth
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Explore the ancient and modern with Rome in 3D
I've been a fan of the ancient Rome layer for some time it is just amazing. We need more historical and geologic reconstruction layers.
August 22, 2011 7:04 PM
by Lat
Explore the ancient and modern with Rome in 3D
[Cross-posted from the Google SketchUp Blog]
Let's start our exploration in the ruins of the ancient Roman forum, home of the original Roman republic. From here we can easily travel to some of the subsequent Imperial buildings such as the Colosseum (AKA the Flavian Amphitheater) and Trajan's Market and Column.
Next, we'll head Northwest, towards the Pantheon and Piazza Navona. The Pantheon is a great example of the layered reuse of buildings in Rome; originally built in the Republican period, the Pantheon was retrofitted with the front portico in the Imperial period, and then later converted into a church. The shape of Piazza Navona also displays its historic foundation as the site was originally the Stadium of Domitian in the Imperial era.
Lastly, let's head over to the Vatican City, where we can see great examples of the Renaissance and Baroque architecture of the city in Saint Peter's Basilica and the colonnade by Bernini around St. Peter's square.
There is much more to explore in Italy's modern capital, so have a look around this beautiful city! And don't forget, a few years ago we also released ancient Rome in 3D which allows you to see Rome as it was in 320 AD.
To see Rome in Google Earth for yourself, use Google Maps with Earth view or turn on Google Earth's "3D Buildings" layer and search for "Rome, Italy". Alternatively, you can download this KML tour from the Google Earth Gallery to take a virtual tour of the 3D landmarks for yourself. As always, feel free to use Google Building Maker or Google SketchUp to make any improvements or additions to the city or to model your own town.
Happy touring!
Posted by Mason Thrall, Program Manager, Geo 3D
3D Google Earth SketchUp
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Sunday, August 21, 2011
Gigantic White iPhone 4 Table
Cool but ironic that it doesn't run iOS.
I keep wanting to develop some sort of touch table for the vast lab or maybe find a place for one of the google surround shells.
August 15, 2011 5:00 AM
by Adam Flaherty
Gigantic White iPhone 4 Table
In what may seem like a prop from the remake of the Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Benjamin Bachmeier's "iTableous" tabletop display packs an internal PC inside an over-sized white iPhone 4 case. Unfortunately the device itself lacks iOS, but instead relies on either Windows or OS X. [via iPhoneHelp]
Cellphones iPhone iPod Mobile
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Vis Night Winners
Would love to go and participate in this some day...
http://press.mcs.anl.gov/scidac2011/visualization-night/visualization-night-winners/
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Friday, August 19, 2011
ScienceDirect - Continental Shelf Research : Parameterization of bedform morphology and defect density with fingerprint analysis techniques
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0278434311002603
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
University laboratory offers window into ocean exploration
http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2012/aug/ocean-visualization-081811.html
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Exploration Control Console KPS Panel setup
Thanks to Dave LePage and Dwight Coleman for taking the time to help get our key panel setup we now have audio feeds from the Nautilus and the Okeanos Explorer and from several satellite stations coming in loud and clear!
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
524 - Here Be Bogans: Four Miniatures of Sydney Stereotypes | Strange Maps | Big Think
Makes me recall my days in Sydney (all parts) fondly.
http://bigthink.com/ideas/39464#comments
Dr. Art Trembanis
CSHEL
109 Penny Hall
Department of Geological Sciences
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
http://cshel.geology.udel.edu
302-831-2498
"Education is not the filling of a pot, but the lighting of a fire." -W. B. Yeats
Monday, August 15, 2011
Matlab benchmark of new laptop
Just finished installing Matlab 2011a and ran the benchmark test on my new MBP. 2.2 gHz intel i7, 8 gB ram with 460 gB SSD…it's screaming fast!
Now to install our code base for data processing.
Two internal drives plus one external optical drive = winning!
Now the optical drive (slim black case on the left) is set up too. All systems go! The OS with the SSD is very much snappier I mean noticeably quicker in all regards.
-Art
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