Where do RSI Funds Go? 2005-2006
The Remote Sensing Institute supports a variety of educational and research activities for faculty, graduate students and undergraduates as listed below:
1. RSI Seminar Series We maintain a popular seminar series with a combination of internal faculty and student, as well as scientists from across the country. This seminar also serves as a 1-credit course for students interested in remote sensing, which includes students from across the MTU campus. This year’s sessions were coordinated by Bill Rose (Fall) and Richard Honrath (Spring).
Fall 2005
A. J. (Fred) Prata, CSIRO, Atmospheric Sciences, Australia
Anthony Longo, Newmont Gold, Colorado
Graham Tobin, Geography, USF
Linda Whiteford, Anthropology, USF
Mike Ramsey, University of Pittsburg
Bill Rose, Geological Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Tech
Mike Fromm, Naval Research Lab
Holger Siebert, Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig
Arlene Laing, Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology, NCAR
James Wood, Geological Engineering and Sciences, Michigan Tech
Richard Blakely, USGS, Menlo Park, California
James Luhr, Global Volcanism Network, Smithsonian Institution
Simon Carn, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Matt Patrick, Hawaii Institute for Geophysics at the University of Hawaii, Manoa
Spring 2006
Dave Karnosky, School of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, Michigan Tech
Chris Owen, Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech
Mark Rowe, Environmental Engineering, Michigan Tech
Dan Jaffe, University of Washington
Raymond Shaw, Physics, Michigan Tech
Qinbin Li, NASA, JPL
Detlev Helmig, University of Colorado
Scot Hagerthey, Southern Waterways Management Agency, Florida
Charles Kerfoot, Biological Sciences, Michigan Tech
2. Computing Resources
RSI helps maintain an 8-seat Sun computer laboratory in 211 Dow building, as well as contributing to software licensing and systems support. The computers in this lab are accessible by all RSI members, either directly or indirectly. If you have questions on remotely logging in just send a message to rsimaint@mtu.edu. The usefulness of the lab should greatly increase this year, because part of our computing support budget went towards the purchase of 8 Dell dual-boot (PC/Linux) machines for the lab, which will be installed during this summer.
3. Student Support
RSI shares the sponsorship of a graduate student fellowship with the graduate school. The first recipient of this fellowship was Kelly Durst. Kelly is a Ph.D. candidate who has been working on analyses of eruption rates at Santiaguito volcano, Guatemala
using a combination of ASTER and aerial-derived Digital Elevation Models (DEM~Rs). This work is a continuation of several studies by MTU-based personnel and collaborators since 2001, to document the annual transport of volcanogenic sediments and assess the hazards to agriculture, transportation and residential areas. The work to date has been submitted as an abstract to the Fall 2006 AGU meeting.
Travel support for Mike Larsen (A. Kostinski) to attend a Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate as a co-presenter.
Travel support for Susan Hemme (S. Green) to present a poster and for Cory McDonald (N. Urban) to present a research talk at ASLO (American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers) meetings in Victoria, BC, Canada.
4. Research/Faculty Support (Proposal cost-share)
Partial salary and FB for post doc (R. Shaw).
Instrumentation upgrade for Acrobat Towbody (S. Green).
Publication costs for 2 papers in JGLR (Journal of Great Lakes Research) for LaSER research on invasive species (C. Kerfoot).
Overtime for R/V Laurentian crew during a cruise across Lake Michigan to verify the presence of a nutrient pulse and algal bloom, termed the “doughnut”, during late winter (C. Kerfoot, S. Green, J. Budd). (photo)
Where do RSI Funds Go? Archive 2004-05
