Enhancing Clarity & Understanding: Choose the Right Lighting for Your 3D Model When you're presenting a 3D model to stakeholders, clarity is everything. After all, you need stakeholders to understand the data you’re sharing so they can make informed decisions. Achieving this goal, however, requires [...]
How Geophysics Revived a School District’s Construction Plan: The Story of a Once ‘Un-Buildable’ Site When a school district out west set out to build a new facility, they needed to know if their preferred location—which included a portion of a soccer field—was suitable for [...]
Glaciers, Trolls, and Family Time: A Look at Our Surfer Product Manager’s Trip to Norway When she’s not guiding the development of new features in Surfer, our Surfer Product Manager Kari Dickenson is often exploring the great outdoors. This summer, she took her spirit of [...]
New Insights on the Dire Wolf in the Interior of North America For more than a century, Aenocyon dirus—the dire wolf—has held a place in both scientific research and popular imagination. And a new paper, An update on Aenocyon dirus in the interior of North [...]
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 [...]