Titanic: First ever full-sized scans reveal wreck as never seen before The first full-sized digital scan of the Titanic, which lies 3,800m (12,500ft) down in the Atlantic, has been created…www.bbc.com Really interesting use of underwater photogrammetry to 3D model the Titanic. A student in my digital heritage class was able to create a partial 3D model based on a documentary video.

As part of the Lubbock Lake Landmark regional research program, a new publication titled: Collecting Rocks on the Frontier: Investigating the Geodiversity Significance of Historical Building Stones and Rock Collecting at the Maxey Homestead, Northwest Texas, USA was recently completed on documenting local landscape geodiversity and the geoheritage significance of an early 20th century farm house near Post, Texas. The publication is open access and free to download.

2022 Goals for Gravel Locos, Caprock Gravel Grind, Sweetwater Gravel Grind, and Rad Dirt Fest — I am super excited by the opportunities to challenge myself to race gravel in Texas and Colorado this year. I am fortunate that these high-quality and up-and-coming races are all located relatively close to me in Lubbock, Texas. May 14th, 2022 Race #1: Gravel Locos | Hico, Texas | Distance from my house…

For fun, here is a list of my favorite podcasts, TV shows, movies, video games, and books I consumed in 2021. Favorite Movies Dune I did not watch many movies in 2021, at least any that I remember liking. …

Try using the Obsidian App instead — a markdown text editor — Formatting slides in Microsoft’s PowerPoint or Apple’s Keynote presentation software for each lesson or class can take a lot of time to make them look good, and can distract from the main point of teaching — the content. If you are like me, I like my presentations to really stand…

Footprints of the past that reach the sky

Generate new ideas and stay ahead in your research — Reading the latest articles from journals in your field of study is vital for staying ahead of information that impacts your work, and for generating new research ideas. Today, this is a difficult task with the proliferation of new journals, and an increase in the number of articles released each…

Cite while you write for academic papers — For academics, inserting citations from a popular citation manager, such as Endnote, Mendeley, Readcube, etc., is an integral part of their writing workflow. Researchers use citation managers to save time and the hassle of properly formatting citations that different journals require. …

I started my academic career in graduate school with the original iMac and have never looked back. Back in those days, Microsoft and Apple were very much a rivalry, and the Microsoft Office suite was unstable and practically unusable. In the acknowledgments of my Master’s thesis, the last line reads: …