by Nick | Feb 27, 2015 | Code, Maps
PISCES is a set of ArcGIS tools and data for managing and analyzing the ranges of California’s 133 native fish taxa. Data is stored as a standard relational database, increasing the power over many typical GIS approaches, and allowing for a powerful mapping...
by Nick | Jul 14, 2014 | Technical
As part of a class where students gained extensive experience in the field, my colleague Sarah Yarnell led a team of researchers at the Center for Watershed Sciences that developed a virtual field trip as a pre-field trip teaching tool, and a way to expose the public...
by Nick | Apr 30, 2014 | Talks and Presentations
In this presentation, given at “Groundtruths and Airwaves”, an event put on by the UC Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), I talk about some of the work we had been doing at the Center for Watershed...
by Nick | Feb 20, 2014 | Code, Technical
As part of the organization I started, Environmental Consumer, I built an application to help individuals reduce their time in the shower as part of a hackathon in early 2014. Designed specifically for mobile devices, the application lets you start and stop a timer,...
by Nick | Sep 30, 2013 | Technical
The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences has long term study sites at the confluence of the Tuolumne and Clavey rivers, near where the Rim Fire of 2013 started. As part of these long term study sites, we captured a gigapixel image of the confluence in June 2013....
