Fluvial geomorphology and LRRD is busy!
Nicholas Pinter brought his grad students over today for a lunch discussion of the recent Walter and Merrits article in Science (bunch of links here). What a pleasure, and doesn’t our office look nice? Nicholas and Jonathan Remo (latter handing paper to former)...
River model design. Research and design!
We’re designing a larger river model, now code-named the em4, and are testing pumps. Pumping and filtration are big challenges–the plastic media we use is an industrial abrasive. Great for modeling, hell on pumps. Pumps are complex devices with...
Prototyping. Reading a vernier scale. Video.
We’re working on a larger version of the Emriver, and I can’t say much more about that now except that it involves things like studying gear drives and whether or not you can seal an aluminum box with rivets v. welding. Here’s a severely censored...