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Sinuosity Heat Mapping: A step-by-step guide
Hello again. I haven't posted in awhile because I've been busy with final exams for the Fall semester. Those ended last week so I've been back at the office making more progress on my research. I am...
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Data Collection Update with Pictures
In addition to sitting in front of a computer looking at remote sensing data, a big part of my research involves going out into rivers and collecting field data. Basically, myself and a field...
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Sinuosity Heat Mapping: the issue of length scales
A couple weeks ago I introduced a method of displaying sinuosity utilizing ArcGIS. The method produces a color-coded polyline shapefile of a river based on a river segment's sinuosity. After I fooled...
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Aerial Imagery 1954 to 2004: Cutoffs and Lateral Migration
This will be a short post. I georeferenced an image from 1954 ordered from the USGS last semester and digitized the centerline of the Tickfaw River in ArcGIS. Comparing this route (1954) with the more...
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March 11 Tickfaw "Flood" Pictures
Well, here in New Orleans we had a heck of a lot of flooding last week during the days leading up to Mardi Gras. Last week also happened to be Tulane's Spring Break. So the combination of having...
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Louisiana Flood Forensics
I just got back into the office from taking Kyle (one of my committee members) into the Tickfaw River for the first time. We collected some good GPS data and floated a section I hadn't yet floated....
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Point Bar Stratigraphy: Revealed
This is going to be a short post filled with lots of pictures and little interpretation. I took my adviser out on the Tickfaw River earlier today to float a specific portion of the river we did last...
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Flood Frequency Plots of South Louisiana Rivers
One of the hydrologist's tools is the flood frequency plot. They are particularly useful for quickly identifying bankfull discharges, typically believed to be the discharge with a 1.5 year recurrency...
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The Extremes Are More Extreme
I grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and over the summers during high school I was a lifeguard at a local swim club. Every day had a morning and an evening shift. I always loved the evening shifts...
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Making the most of Trimble's (free!) Planning Software
In addition to sitting in front of a computer looking at remote sensing data, a big part of my research involves going out into rivers and collecting field data. Basically, myself and a field...
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A Unique High-Water Indicator
While floating a 7+ mile section of the Tickfaw River today between Holden and Springville, LA, my field assistant and I came across a curious site. Up in a tree that was hanging over the channel was...
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Field Work and Data Collection... Completed!
Yesterday might have been the final trip down the Tickfaw River in which I bring the dGPS and collect X,Y, and Z data. This image displays X,Y, and Z data point locations I've collected during...
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Thesis Figure Dump: #1
What better way to put off writing a thesis than by making figures with Miscrospft Excel and Adobe Illustrator? As the title of this posts suggests, I've been making figures for my thesis due at the...
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Headed to AGU with a Poster under my arm (...or around my shoulder)
I submitted my Abstract for the AGU annual meeting in San Francisco this December about 6 weeks ago. Since then I've been waiting to hear back whether or not I was be presenting a 12 minute PowerPoint...
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Thesis Figure Dump: #2
More figures I've been working on to share with everyone. Hopefully they don't need too much explanation. Generalized Geology Map of southeastern Louisiana. Still need to add fault zones, remove...
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A House Built on Sand (literally)
It's been about a month since my last post and I thought I'd share a GoogleEarth image with everyone. While doing some research and looking at aerial imagery of the Tangipahoa River (near Mandeville,...
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Thesis Figure Dump: #3
Less than a month to go before I hand in the finished product. I've been sleeping very little and writing a lot. These blogs are becoming nice check-points for me. Here are some of the more...
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Amite River Remote Controlled Cameras
Over the past decade or so as video cameras have become smaller and transfered from tape to digital, remote controlled cameras have been popping up all over the place. You can find them being used as...
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Thanksgiving Standing Waves
So I flew to northern California this week to celebrate Thanksgiving with some friends who have a place just north of the small town of Gualala. Earlier today we had some down time and decided to take...
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AGU 2011 Poster
After much editing and resizing of images, I now have a final draft of a poster I will be presenting at the annual AGU (American Geophysical Union) meeting this week in San Francisco. For anyone...
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