Monthly Archives: May 2015

My colleague, Marty Briggs, at the USGS Office of Groundwater, Branch of Geophysics, has done some fascinating research using thermal imaging.  The weekend I borrowed a FLIR camera to look for seepage points in the bank of the Pennypack Creek … Continue reading →

Most of my scientific career I’ve relied on Matlab for algorithm development.  But recently I’ve started exploring programming in Python.  The benefits for scientists  of converting to Python from Matlab are laid out in this Blog post. Being on sabbatical … Continue reading →

The Symposium for the Application of Geophysics to Environmental and Engineering Geophysics was held in Austin, TX this March. Good attendance and interesting talks! My presentation was on last summer’s experiment at the Shale Hills Critical Zone Observatory: “Ground-based LiDAR … Continue reading →