Fluvial Photography at LRRD

Fluvial Photography at LRRD

Alee teaches Lily to use the GigaPan Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been testing out our new GigaPan Epic Pro system, which is a robot that guides a camera to take nearly perfect panoramic pictures.  The GigaPan software stitches the photos together, and you...

Emriver Em4 coded media and CRP updates.

Emriver Em4 coded media and CRP updates.

Draft, delta building and stratigraphy, Emriver Em4 model. from Steve Gough on Vimeo. We are moving fast with our Em4 work, partly in preparation for GSA in Minneapolis, where I’ll be giving a talk about use of color coded by size (CCS) media and also Close...

Martian water in Carbondale, Illinois.

Martian water in Carbondale, Illinois.

McEwen et al.’s Science paper on Martian water yesterday is exciting stuff! Especially for us, because our models can simulate fluvial geomorphology on Mars.  The plastic media we use is particularly good at forming sapping channels, which are groundwater-driven...

Normal noises at LRRD.

Normal noises at LRRD.

We’ve been crazy busy at LRRD for the last few months.  I used what little blogging time I had to cover the lower Mississippi floods, and haven’t reported the cool things we’ve been up to.  Here are a few photos. We’ve done a lot of pro bono...

GSA Denver day one.

GSA Denver day one.

A day I’ll always remember.  Kate, Lily, and I worked very hard this morning to get everything in its final place, and a year’s worth of planning came to fruition. We welcomed hundreds of delighted visitors from many countries tonight–here are a few...