Project Overview In August of 2013, UNAVCO supported the second half of a two-part terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) project undertaken by scientists at the University of Montana. The August survey took place on the Bitterroot River in Western Montana. The first half of the project was conducted on the Santa Maria River in Arizona in … Continued
Project Overview UNAVCO provided an engineer and TLS equipment to assist with the UC Santa Cruz field camp this past summer in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. Each year, geology undergraduates from the university stay at the Sierra Nevada Aquatics Research Lab (SNARL) for one week as part of their six-week-long field camp, dedicated to familiarizing … Continued
Project Overview The International Tundra Experiment (ITEX) network has collected data on phenology, plant growth, community composition, and ecosystem properties as part of a greater effort to study environmental Arctic change. The network has played a key role in advancing knowledge related to the likely impacts of a warmer Arctic through the use of experimentally … Continued
Project Overview In 2006, while collecting samples of rock, Bucknell University researchers Craig Kochel and Rob Jacob discovered landforms in the Wrangell Mountains of Alaska that had previously been uncharacterized. These newly discovered landforms were named icy debris fans due to similarities with alluvial fans. An alluvial fan is a fan- or cone-shaped deposit of … Continued
Project Overview The Natural Resources Conservation Service stated that Colorado needed a wet March this year to get any real drought relief, noting that the March 1 snowpack measurement reflected a “nominal” increase in the month of February, but statewide snowpack remained at just 73 percent of average. In a statement, the agency stated that, … Continued
Project Overview The Toutle River is a 17.2-mile (27.7 km) tributary of the Cowlitz River in the U.S. state of Washington. It rises in two forks merging near Toutle below Mount St. Helens and joins the Cowlitz near Castle Rock, 20 miles (32 km) upstream of the larger river’s confluence with the Columbia River. The … Continued
Project Overview In the Burggrafenamt district of South Tirol, Italy, a castle sits on a hill, named by the ancestral seat of the Counts of Tirol during the 12th century. The castle has witnessed a range of historical events, through the Habsburg dynasty, the Napoleonic Wars, two world wars, and now embodies its modern role … Continued
Project Overview Handcart Gulch, named for the handcarts that Colorado miners used to pull outfits up the steep valley, was a rowdy area that reached its peak in 1876-77 with several hundred miners in the area. Today, only some ruins mark the site. It is also the site of a terrestrial laser scanning project that … Continued
Project Overview UNAVCO provides geodetic support to NSF-OPP funded scientific investigators working in the Arctic and Antarctic. Survey grade GPS receivers, terrestrial laser scanners, and supporting power and communications systems for continuous data collection and campaign surveying are available. Operation and maintenance services are also provided for long term data collection, with on-line data distribution … Continued
Project Overview UNAVCO provided support for Dr. Ryan Ewing’s (University of Alabama) first TLS survey campaign to the White Sands National Monument. Scanning was carried out over the course of four days in three separate locations within the monument. Site access and project assistance were made possible by Dr. Ewing’s ongoing collaborator, David Bustos, White … Continued