Another All Hands Meeting In the Books: A Glimpse Into Our In-Person Event During the first week of October, our team gathered in Golden, Colorado for our annual All Hands Meeting. As always, this in-person event was a chance for us to connect face-to-face, strengthen [...]
A Look at the Flat-Headed Peccaries' Extinction Today, the collared peccary (Pecari tajacu), also known as the javelina, is the only species of peccary still living in the United States. But rewind about 12,000 years to the Late Pleistocene, and North America was home to [...]
The Hidden Bubbles: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions From Degrading Permafrost The Earth’s permafrost is a vast expanse of frozen ground that holds a massive reservoir of greenhouse gases. As global temperatures rise and the permafrost thaws, these gases—primarily methane—are released into the atmosphere. But how [...]
3 Example Scripts That Reduce Repetitive Tasks When Graphing If you regularly create graphs as part of your work, you’ve probably noticed how repetitive it can get. Every time you open your data visualization software, you can easily find yourself creating graphs for similar datasets, [...]
Need to Enhance Understanding of Your Data? Create a Fly-Through of Your 3D Model. When it comes to communicating complex surface and subsurface data, 3D models are a powerful tool. They help your stakeholders visualize complicated spatial relationships, spot patterns, and better understand the scope [...]
Using an Untraditional Data Analysis Method to Create an Untraditional Monster Map Visualizing Pure Salt in Mexico When it comes to fieldwork in geophysics, there’s rarely a “typical” project. But even by industry standards, a monster map—which compiles massive amounts of complex information into a [...]
How Professor Mine Dogan Is Preparing Future Scientists at WMU’s Hydrogeology Field Camp Every summer, Western Michigan University (WMU) hosts a Hydrogeology Field Camp, an immersive, hands-on experience designed to equip the next generation of scientists with the tools they’ll need to succeed in the [...]
Validating Your Grid Results: Why It Matters & How to Do It Effectively When you create a grid from your data, you're not just producing a surface—you’re shaping the foundation for every map, model, and analysis that follows. That’s why it’s essential to ask: How [...]
The Change Beneath the Surface: Tracking the Decrease of Freshwater Clam Species Diversity in Iowa Archaeologist and Iowa State University Professor Matthew Hill recently completed a research project investigating the health of freshwater clams in the Des Moines River, a 525-mile waterway that eventually joins [...]
3 Types of Scripts That Can Automate Some of Your Map-Making Workflow When it comes to mapping, automation can be a game-changer. But when you hear the word “scripting,” which is the method used to jumpstart automation, your first thought might be, “That’s not for [...]