by Lindsay Barbieri | Dec 9, 2016 | Student Fellow Blog
We are sitting in a brightly-lit computer lab with 19 other University of Vermont (UVM) students. Everyone is scrolling through satellite imagery of landscapes in Zambia, looking for small grey clusters of pixels with regular shadows that indicate buildings. When we...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Aug 10, 2016 | Student Fellow Blog
I work with drones (also known as UAS or UAV – unmanned aerial systems/vehicles), and this is a question I get a lot. It is not typically asked in a forceful or suspicious manner, but I always have a momentary adrenaline rush when I see the curious bystander /...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Jun 6, 2016 | Uncategorized
Watershed Network Analysis: Part 1 Natural Resources, Nutrient Loading and NetworkX 1. Introduction: Natural Resources | Data Science In making the exciting (and sometimes daunting) journey through an interdisciplinary PhD program in Natural Resources with a dual...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Feb 10, 2016 | Student Fellow Blog
Curled up in the driver’s seat of a mud-layered pickup truck, I carefully tap out some final code adjustments on my laptop. The hum of the generator in the back drowns out the quiet air-gulping noises from our greenhouse gas analyzer beside it, so I keep a...
by Lindsay Barbieri | Oct 21, 2015 | Student Fellow Blog
Flinging a small fixed-wing drone into the crisp morning air to monitor an agricultural field, the whine of the propellers gives way to a burst of radio chatter. I direct my small undergraduate team to measure greenhouse gas emissions in the field while keeping an eye...
