Volcanoes

My latest course with coursera is of course about these:

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Dirty Little Secrets

My latest adventure on coursera is called ‘Archaeology’s Dirty Little Secrets’, a fabulous course.

One of the weekly tasks included the production of a 3D-model of my choice using freely available software.

Miss Black scored 3 out of 3!

Crowdfunding Snapshot Serengeti

Snapshot Serengeti

I recently returned from Serengeti with all of my limbs intact and hard drives full of camera photos in tow. The images on these drives comprise Season 6 – the season I welded spiky nails to the cases to discourage hungry hyenas from chomping on them, didn’t get stuck every 3 days for a change, and also my last trip as a Ph.D. student. (Now I’m back in Minnesota trying to make sense of all the data and write my dissertation!) The Season 6 images are slowly making their way through the cloud to the Zooniverse team, and we’re expecting to have them online by the end of the month.

Unfortunately, things are not all butterflies and rainbows for us. In fact, Season 6 will mark a rather dire situation for Snapshot Serengeti. As Margaret wrote back in May, our National Science Foundation funding has run out – and…

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