Oregon State University recently heralded a 2007 Winter Seminar Series offered by the Department of Geosciences. The series, titled “Geovisualization: A Window to Earth Surface, Structure and System,” will be held from January through March and features presentations by 10 speakers, including two of our grad students, in the field of visualizing spatial data. “Geovisualization combines approaches such as 3-D mapping,...
Read MoreUC Santa Barbara’s Ellison Hall, a six-story building containing offices, classrooms, and dry laboratories has instituted a new vermicomposting program as part of the campus’ drive towards environmental sustainability under the guidance of the multi-departmental Ellison Hall Sustainability Committee. Vermicomposting is the process of using worms to break down organic waste into soil and fertilizer. This Friday at 2pm...
Read More(Pictured from left to right: Paul Sorensen, Jim Marston, Paul Sutton, and John Cloud) Post Doc Jim Marston was at the National Academies’ Transportation Research Board annual meeting in Washington DC in January, serving on the Accessible Transportation and Mobility Committee. He contacted former grad student John Cloud who happens to live a few blocks from the convention hotel and learned that another former grad, Paul Sutton,...
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