Update - JEB cover and Ocean Sciences Meeting

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[caption id="attachment_714" align="alignright" width="241" caption="My work on the cover of a special issue of the Journal of Experimental Biology"][/caption] I'm in salt lake this week for the 2012 Ocean Sciences Meeting, alongside 4,000 other researchers.  I'm presenting some exciting research findings on friday, and in the mean time I'm learning a lot and trying to network some for future research...Read More

Tool of the Week: Running Multiple Instances of Matlab on Mac

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[caption id="attachment_605" align="alignleft" width="249" caption="Notice There are two Matlabs Running!"][/caption] My research often involves running Matlab Code that can take hours to run. Admittedly, Matlab isn't the fastest language out there, but it has super powerful debugging tools, and image processing packages that make it really easy to use for a non-computer scientist. While matlab is running a bit of...Read More

Tool of the Week: PowProject.com

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Sometimes figuring out where to go skiing feel's like a roll of the dice.  Where's the snow deep enough to not hit rocks?  Where are the freshies at? In the backcountry, it gets even worse: Will the snow be windswept? Will it be steep enough to ski? Will it be too steep to ski safely? How's the avi danger? How...Read More

Trip Report: Carl's Cabin and New York Mountain Backcountry

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UPDATE: If you're looking for more current trip reports, current avi conditions, other backcountry ski areas, or backcountry ski weather, please check out my new website (which is under construction) at www.PowProject.com [caption id="attachment_619" align="alignright" width="300" caption="At the Trailhead. Photo Credit Lora Homeyer"][/caption] This past weekend I did my first ever 10th mtn hut trip.  It was totally dope. We...Read More

Ski Tip: Cheap Ski Gloves

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Ski gear can be expensive, so when my old ski gloves starting falling apart at the seams this cheap-skate was gritting his teath thinking about buying a new pair.  I asked a couple of my friends from ski bums to ski patrols and got a pretty unified response: Get a pair of Kincos. So I did, and after posting about...Read More

Tool of the Week: Zenni Optical

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Over the holidays I've been getting lots of complements on my new glasses.  I decided to try out some thicker, bolder frames and got a pretty good response to them!  For those of you that wear glasses, you know how expensive glasses can be.  So trying a new style used to be a risky investment... until I started buying my...Read More

Tool of the Week: Google Sketchup

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Google Sketchup is a Free, easy to use, and intuitive 3D modeling tool. [caption id="attachment_599" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Here are some drawings for a bed i designed, but never built, because i realized my room was too small"][/caption] Because it is free, I've found Google Sketchup to be a great tool to use in the classroom when teaching my high-school classes...Read More

Tool of the Week: Pintrest

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I love sharing articles and things I find interesting around the internet.  Recently my friend Nicole told me about a website I had never heard of before called Pinterest.   Pinterest makes sharing stuff you find on the web really easy, and your past shares are shown in a very aesthetically pleasing gallery.  You can choose to send your pins to facebook...Read More

Tool of the Week: Evernote

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Evernote is a free app for windows, pc, and smartphones, and is a great way to remember stuff. [caption id="attachment_584" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Evernote Screenshot"][/caption] For research: I love being able to quickly snap screen shots of plots and clip them to Evernote, with a description of what's going on and what i'm working on daily. I can easily e-mail a...Read More