Emriver Em3 at AGU

Emriver Em3 at AGU

Lily Hwang and I will set up our new Emriver Em3 at AGU in San Fransisco next week. Here you see Lily at GSA, a CAD drawing, and Lily, Christina, Alee, and Nathan celebrating the first Em3’s arrival in October. The Em3’s form comes from my two decades of...

Project Eco R.O.V.E.R. and LRRD at Saturday Science

Project Eco R.O.V.E.R. and LRRD at Saturday Science

On Saturday, Little River Research & Design collaborator and friend Andrew Podoll launched a fundraising endeavor for his Project Eco R.O.V.E.R. at Carbondale’s Farmers’ Market, in an event he called Saturday Science. A conceptual sketch of the...

Time lapse LRRD at GSA fun!

Time lapse LRRD at GSA fun!

Our trip to GSA this year was incredible. We spent months planning and many hours in final preparation. Everybody at LRRD — Nathan, Meriam, Alee, Christina, Lily, and I — played an important role. And my wife Kate took vacation time to join us, something...

LRRD at GSA Minneapolis

LRRD at GSA Minneapolis

Em4 at GSA Minneapolis from Steve Gough on Vimeo. A movie and  photos from GSA 2011.  Ending months of preparation followed by a couple of crazy weeks packing equipment and driving it up in a truck; flying nearly all of LRRD into Minneapolis to help. We’ve had...

SIUC helps LRRD load for GSA!

SIUC helps LRRD load for GSA!

  Today, after months of planning and preparation, we loaded a sixteen-foot truck bound for GSA-Minneapolis. SIUC students from all over campus formed human forklifts to muscle the big Em4 on board. From forestry, geography, geology, zoology, and fisheries, and...