Here is a 3D model of a Multi-Agency Rocky Intertidal Network (MARINe) monitoring site at Ano Nuevo in San Mateo County, California. Models like this one can be used to map the distribution of rocky shoreline species, and to track changes in their distribution through...

Using structure-from-motion software we convert thousands of digital photographs into 3-dimensional point clouds representing our plots that typically contain more than a billion points. Visualizing this many points on a screen is not an easy task. Fortunately we have...

Marine Protected Area Technology Workshop

This month, our proposal was chosen for a FOSC Student Research and Education Grant. With the support of this grant we will create a large format exhibit at the Seymour Discovery Center. The centerpiece of this exhibit will be a near-life sized printout of our field si...

The Rising Tides Project will continue under support from a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship. 

This 3 year fellowship is one of the most competitive fellowships available to graduate students within the United States. With this support, my resear...

Today, we partnered with the Climate Science Alliance - South Coast  to put together an educational booth at the Pacific Beach Elementary School Science Day. At the event project scientists engaged local K-5 students with large printouts of local tidepools, examples of...

Structure from motion (SfM) is a photogrammetric approach that produces models of 3-dimensional structures by identifying and aligning unique features within overlapping images. This novel technology is allowing us to produce highly spatially resolved 3-dimensional mod...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Tides and Currents website holds a wealth of information on tides, currents, and sea level trends. Data collected at tidal stations across the US coast can be viewed through this site. 

For our research we have...

Over the past two months our team has surveyed our four field sites. Utilizing a camera mounted to a transect line, we collected digital photographs covering 8 x 35 m plots across the elevation gradient of the coast. Utilizing photo processing software, we are now work...