VIDEOS

 

If a picture is worth a 1000 words, a video can be worth millions. Throughout the course of my internship, I strung together videos of various topics from stunning time-lapse animations of the devastating 2003 October Wildfires in San Diego to a dramatic flythrough of massive ice crevasses in Antarctica . Below are a few examples of various movies that I created for the Visualization Center .

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Fire Video

This video is a time-lapse animation of the progression of the devastating Cedar and Paradise fires that burned hundreds of thousands of acres in San Diego County in October, 2003.

Ship to Shore

This video shows the dialogue between the research vessel Roger Revelle and the inquisitive children of the Preuss Middle School . A real-time video link was established from the school in San Diego to the Revelle, which was off the coast of New Zealand .

Ice Shelf Crack

A satellite over the Amery Ice shelf in Antarctica recorded a series of images from the year 2000 to 2005. This time-lapse video shows the steady growth of a massive crack in the Amery Ice Shelf as a large piece of the shelf slowly breaks away.

Video with constant time progression
This video has a constant and even flow of time.  The frames were placed in the appropriate moment in time.  As a result, the image is rather jumpy.

Video with constant frame progression
This video has a constant frame progression.  The timecode is fit to whatever frame is on the screen and hence represents an inconsitant flow in time.

Video with accelerated frame-rate
This is the video at 30 fps, much faster than the other two.

Amery Ice Shelf

This video is a compilation of footage that was shot in a helicopter that was flying through a large crevasse in the Amery Ice Shelf.

Torrey Pines Subcell

This video for the Coastal Morphology Group three-dimensionally simulates sediment shifts off the coast of Torrey Pines over the next 200 years.

WEBSITES
 

The best way to share data, projects, pictures, or scientific studies is through the World Wide Web. Through my time at the Visualization Center , I created a series of websites that helped inform the general public of the many activities and projects that happen at this institution.

   

Ship To Shore

I created a webpage that showcases the Ship To Shore Movie - a a dialogue between middle school kids in San Diego and a research ship in the middle of the ocean.

Ridgeview

The Ridgeview website is a work in progress that is a portal for the studies and scene files of the Ridge 2000 program, which investigates ocean-floor ridges.

Tsunami Website

After the December tsunami in Sumatra, I put together a page of related links and activities that SIO and the Visualization Center were doing in response to the tsunami.

SIO Visualization Website

I helped clean and renovate the main pages of the SIO Visualization Center website. This is an example of a web page that I updated with recent information.

AGU 2004 Webpage

After the 2004 America Geophysical Union (AGU) conference, I put together a page that documented the presence of the SIO Visualization Center .

MULTIMEDIA
 

In order to convey a message or a concept, one of the best ways is interactivity. I created a set of interactive animations in Macromedia Flash relating to different aspects of seismology. The simulations are both scientifically accurate and present relatively common concepts in a new and interesting way.

   

Earthquake Magnitude Application

This application shows how a tool called a nomograph is used to determine the magnitude of an earthquake. Sliders let a user manually measure seismographs while the program displays the approximate magnitude of the quake.

Musical Seismograms

This unique program lets you “hear” earthquake. Sped up to various speeds, the undulations of the seismograph are translated into sound. Eerie “drumbeat” like sounds can be heard from this seismograph of the Mt. Saint Helen's eruption.

3D VISUALIZATIONS

 

We live in a three-dimensional world, it is only logical that data should be represented 3-dimensionally also. Using a program called IVS Fledermaus, I took data points, terrain data, and other information and compiled them into 3D environments with accurate special reference and real geographic coordinates. With an accurate 3D environment in the computer, data can be viewed from all angles and all directions as anyone can explore the virtual space. Below are a series of 3D scenes that I created for various areas of the world.

   

Sumatra

This scene is of the areas in the Indian ocean that were affected by the December earthquake and tsunami. It shows the location of the tsunami triggering earthquake.

  

Torrey Pines Subcell

The Torrey Pines Subcell scene shows 3D models of sediment layers as placed off the coast of Torrey Pines, San Diego . The coastline includes satellite imagery and extremely high-resolution (1m) topography for the coast..

  

Yellowstone

The highly active seismology of Yellowstone National Park is shown in this scene along with imported images of various GPS stations and panoramas of the park.

New Zealand

New Zealand is has some of the most amazing terrain in the world thanks to a massive amount of seismic activity beneath it. This scene shows plots for hundreds of thousands of earthquakes that have happened beneath New Zealand.

Engdahl Global Earthquakes

This spectacular scene shows all the major earthquakes over the past 50 years over the entire planet. In addition, topography for the entire world was added to give further spatial reference to the many hundreds of thousands of earthquakes along earth's faults.

Parkfield

This unique area of California known as Parkfield is home to a very well defined and unique fault system. This scene shows a segment of that fault beneath the region as outlined by a series of earthquakes.

San Diego

This massive scene has topography with 10 meter resolution of the entirety of San Diego County . In addition, local fault lines and local cities are labeled.

Fiji

This scene shows seismic activity beneath the islands of Fiji in the middle of the South Pacific.

Greenland

This scene has topography for one of the most isolated and desolate places on the planet – Greenland .

Switzerland

This scene shows the complex terrain of Switzerland as well seismic activity that has happened beneath the Alps . Major cities are also labeled to aid in geographic reference.

OTHER

Educational Cubes

As one of my first projects, I put together a set of question and answers about glaciers, earthquakes and mars and then plugged them into a program that modeled a 3D cube. Each Q&A was on a face of the cube.

Juxtaview High Resolution Images

Using a program called JuxtaView, I was able to take extremely high-resolution images and tile them across a multi-tiled, high-resolution display. I used images from the Cassini and Mars missions to display.

HTH Internship Exhibition

In conjunction with the High Tech High internship program, I presented my work at the Visualization Center at High Tech High's internship exhibition night. The dual Apple displays and 3D visualizations drew lots of attention.

Earth and Mars CD Cover

I made a cover for a CD that contained David Sandwell's data on the Earth and Mars which he was planning to give away.