Since I’m smack dab in the middle of publishing Double Couple, book 3 of the Schattenreich series (more in the next couple of weeks – and especially the cover!), I don’t have much to chat about right now, but wanted to at least add something of interest. In addition to our work in Greece, the Bensberg Earthquake Observatory of the University of Cologne has also received a generous grant from the German-Israel Foundation for the research we are conducting in cooperation with Shmulik Marco, Professor of Geology at Tel Aviv University, to support our archaeoseismology work in Israel. The scanner… Read More
This guy looks just like I feel in the searing heat. This chameleon lives near Nimrod Castle in Israel. I don’t know for sure whether he also got laser-scanned or not.
Our lean mean FARO scanner 3D Laser Scanning: what is it and what can you do with that? A 3D scanner basically takes 100,000 or more samples per second of an (at best stationary) object using laser range-finding, providing a point cloud that can render a highly accurate reconstruction (especially with the addition of a camera). Our new scanner from FARO is smaller-faster-better (and lighter – it can be taken as a carry-on, for example, on an airplane). These types of (active) scans are most useful for reconstructions and as an aid to modeling – the uses are varied, ranging… Read More
Field work, Day 1, was mostly spent unpacking the car, setting up and organizing the field office, establishing the survey base, and disassembling the first batch of seismic stations that had been recording since last September. Then it was off to the supermarket for basic supplies such as 2 liter bottles of water, sandwich making material, tomatoes, cucumbers, retsina, and ouzo. The absolute basics. Days 2 and 3 were mostly spent in that nasty form of field limbo that geophysicists are sent to when things don’t work: waiting for permits, endless discussions about why things don’t work, and making trips… Read More
Reproduced below is my interview with the Pubslush blog Women on Wednesday feature. Pubslush is an interesting and potentially useful crowdfunding concept that also contributes to increasing literacy (focused on children) with giving partners (for example, Flying Kites in Kenya). They are a hybrid corporation (that is, they have both profit and non-profit status.) I am not affiliated with Pubslush and have no experience with their publishing arms and therefore cannot say anything about them, either good or bad, but they included an interview with me on their website and I’m grateful for that. My advice is, if you are… Read More
