Oct 15, 2018
Changing Hydrology for the Better
The effects of changing hydrology on wetlands have caught my attention this week. When I first came to Maryland, I remember hearing there are no natural lakes, a story repeated as this…
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Oct 4, 2018
A Story of Food Bringing Us Together
Years ago, I worked for a small telecommunications company located in Rockville, called Startec Communications. Startec provided (maybe still does, who knows?) long distance services targetting the immigrant community. This was cheap…
Oct 3, 2018
Rainfall Stationarity
There's a really neat (and short) paper by Joseph P. Wilson that was presented at Stormcon in Atlanta this year focusing on the stationarity of rainfall. If you catch the weather forecast…
Sep 17, 2018
The Lowly Tilefish
Here in Maryland, we often think of the blue crab as our major seafood. But the best part of Maryland, if you love seafood, is its incredible variety. And more frequently, the…
Sep 9, 2018
Prepare for Hurricane Florence Like a Professional
Right now, the Mid-Atlantic is staring down Hurricane Florence. The best guess anyone has right now is that this will hit between Florida and New York...but wherever it hits, it will be…
Aug 27, 2018
Teaching Research Methods This Fall
I am teaching research methods again this fall, this time for Penn State University. I do love teaching research methods, and despite having a busy fall (though not as busy as it…
Aug 11, 2018
Do you mean to tell me this sucker is nuclear?!
This morning, Nina, Ducky, and I went down to APL to watch the liftoff of the Parker Solar Probe, initially scheduled for 03:53 local time. It didn't happen, for reasons I never…
Aug 7, 2018
Identity and Trust in Healthcare IT
Well, we all know I am not one to let an opportunity for self-promotion to slide. So it is strange that I didn't announce this already. But last night, I was asked…
Aug 6, 2018
Some More Math Syllabi
I have taught two sections of college algebra at UMUC this summer and I just posted the syllabi for each to my math teaching page. There's nothing particularly interesting in either, but…
Jul 30, 2018
Forecasting Artificial Earth Satellite Populations
As I wrote back in March, my orbit population prediction model is going to be presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings in Vancouver, today. The point of this is to better understand…
Jul 12, 2018
Nanotechnology on Your Face
This summer, I've been taking a class at the Johns Hopkins University called Nanotechnology and the Environment: Applications and Implications. I had no idea what to expect when I signed up for…