We’ve had a busy couple of weeks with our Emriver Em2. First, Andrew Podoll, an NSF-funded geology/education GK-12 HEART fellow at SIUC, borrowed the Em2 for a student research event. It was a huge hit with the kids, as you can see. Last weekend I hauled to...
I’m super excited about our redesign of the Emriver Em2 model. After many hours of meetings, emails, CAD work, research on materials and methods, and prototype building, I think we have the basic design figured out. The first design, based on twenty years of...
Or better, the bobsled. This figure is from a recent report by the National Federation of Independent Business (via Andrew Sullivan’s blog and the Economist). With strong encouragement and financial support from my wife Kate, I expanded Little River Research...
One more day and we’ll have our massive NSF proposal submitted to the Course Curriculum and Lab Improvement (CCLI) progam. The time we have six PIs at SIUC, me and LRRD, and no less than nine “node” institutions participating. Cara and I...
I’m just swamped these days–with personnel changes at LRRD, the flu, grantwriting, consulting, all of it. Lots of cool things at LRRD, just no time to report them. In the meantime, here are some kids in Brazil surfing urban stormwater. Don’t do this....
