Public Lab/citizen science

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EWB virtual fundraiser done, whew…!

October 30, 2020 by patcoyle

Rotarians, Rotarians, all the way down...they featured prominently.I am so pleased we’re on other side of our Engineers Without Borders (EWB) El Llanito team virtual fundraiser last Wednesday night. This recording of our event is long, but can skip the first 24 minutes or so of rotating slide show (well, don't skip all of Elizabeth Dahlen's great production, you but might not want to watch it loop repeatedly–it features the EWB-SFP team project photos from the 2020 internal grant folders, plus ATDT ones). See video here: https://youtu.be/PI9ZZK6n9x4Thanks to JR and the Stagecoach band, Stu and … [Read more...] about EWB virtual fundraiser done, whew…!

Aerial photomap of Belize Open Source

January 27, 2020 by patcoyle

I flew the Mavic Mini around the property at 400 feet (~129 meters). At Belize international Airport I had WiFi and was able to upload the images from my laptop to Drone Deploy’s cloud-based software which processed 486 photos to make an orthomosaic map and 3D model. Here is a screenshot from my phone. The high resolution map and model are … [Read more...] about Aerial photomap of Belize Open Source

Leaving Gamboa, Panama

January 15, 2020 by patcoyle

I’m was at Canopy B&B, waiting for ride to airport. Now I’m in line at the airport. I had great time here. I came to visit Andrew Quitmeyer, at Digital Naturalism Laboratories (DINA: https://www.dinacon.org) via invitation from Shannon Dosemagen, long-time Public Lab friend. You can see what Public Lab is about at: https://publiclab.org/ I’d been intrigued by a map and 3-D model of Gamboa that Andy had made from a drone flight. I brought my new Mavic Mini that I had maybe 6 min of flight time with. Andy coached me, and we flew a section of Gamboa Marsh where a music festival had … [Read more...] about Leaving Gamboa, Panama

On our way to Nicaragua

December 29, 2019 by patcoyle

We’re on the Avianca flight from SFO, with stop in San Salvador, due into Managua a little after 9am. We will have two teams of six people, traveling for about a week, with couple days overlap, returning 18. January, to get started on this project. Our travel teams will include UC Berkeley students who are participating in the project. I am also bringing water filters from Darrell Ward, a Rotarian from Oklahoma. He’s been working with Alcance And the Rotary Club of Masaya to distribute them to communities who need them I’m also bringing Foldscopes for a person at the … [Read more...] about On our way to Nicaragua

Guest writer

October 17, 2019 by patcoyle

My friend Peggy Schimmelman was gracious to feature a short piece of mine on her site. It’s set in Belize. https://peggyschimmelman.com/guest-poets-writers/ Peggy has many writing credits and publications so it was my pleasure and honor to share the 2015 Las Positas anthology awards for poetry and prose with her. Photos are at: https://flickr.com/photos/11288455@N00/sets/72157650763012593 Short videos of me accepting and reading from my memoir piece are in this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7StLcBQy0_eTD1v1FWPDmSYZYBieG4-M Thank you Peggy. … [Read more...] about Guest writer