(Okoboji)-The Speaker Series at Lakeside Lab will continue Tuesday night. KUOO’s Becky Thoreson has details:
The Friends of Lakeside Lab’s Science Speaker Series will feature a talk by Geographer Sam Taylor, who is a Doctoral Candidate at the University of Iowa.
Taylor says he’ll be discussing the mapping of fire intensity in Southern California. “I use remote sensing tools, basically satellite over-passing sensors. It could be in drones, it can be on jet planes, and what they do is, they take photographs of wildfires and particularly, before and after a wildfire. If we have those two times, we can note how much of a difference there was, and we can use these special sensors to detect a change in the environment in ways that our eyeballs can’t, and then we use that information to understand how the world works and how at risk we are to things that follow wildfires.”
He notes that he’s using the same technology to map algal blooms in the Iowa Great Lakes this summer. “We’re applying the same basic concepts from my Masters to the Ph.D., but instead of looking at wildfires, now we look at a big issue that’s happening out here, which are algal blooms growing out on Big Spirit Lake.”
Sam Taylor will speak Tuesday evening at Mahan Hall on the Lakeside Campus starting at 7 o’clock. The talk is free and open to the public.
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