Yesterday I had the opportunity to go on a snorkeling dive with Rich Mooi, curator of invertebrate zoology at the Cal Academy. Dr. Mooi is one of the principal investigators of the expedition and an expert on marine invertebrates, particularly sea urchin. He’s also an amazing illustrator and science educator. So really a triple threat! …
We’ve arrived! After about 20 hours of flights from San Francisco to Honolulu to Guam to Manila, an overnight stay in Manila, a three hour ride in a van, and a one hour boat ride, we finally arrived at the Atlantis Dive Resort in Puerto Galera yesterday afternoon (Tuesday, April 7). I have not spent much …
I’m off to the airport, but before I go I wanted to give you alls an easy way to follow along on the progress of our researchers and outreach team in the Philippines. We’ll be tweeting using the hashtag #casfieldnotes. There’s already a bunch of really interesting tweets posted by our researchers who are there …
The Hyperlapse app seems pretty cool. But the latest iOS already includes a timelapse function in the camera. So what’s the big deal? A lot, apparently, as you can see from comparing the two videos of the same subject that I shot with the iOS timelapse function and Hyperlapse, respectively. In this case, I chose to …
[crossposted from the "Academy Adventures" blog] Hi Folks! Rik Panganiban here, senior manager of Digital Learning at the Academy. I’m super excited to announce that, beginning on April 5, I will be participating in the 2015 Philippines Verde Island Passage (VIP) expedition, along with 40 or so other scientists and other experts from the Cal …
Hi Folks! Rik Panganiban here, senior manager of Digital Learning at the Academy. I’m super excited to announce that, beginning on April 5, I will be participating in the 2015 Philippines Verde Island Passage (VIP) expedition, along with 40 or so other scientists and other experts from the Cal Academy and other science institutions in the United States and …
A few weeks ago, the Academy's Digitization Team scanned some tiny objects for myself and our TechTeens, using our awesome Gigamacro camera "Maggie." Of course, they have lots more work on their plate starting to produce high resolution images of our 45 million specimens and providing images for our upcoming "Color of Life" exhibit. Check …
Barry Joseph turned me on to “Hyperlapse“, a free app from the makers of Instagram that enables you to easily create a timelapse video from your smartphone. Here’s a quick test of the app I made while walking around the main floor of the Cal Academy today. Really easy to use, and lots of potential for doing …
In my previous post, I wrote about my initial thoughts on how augmented reality devices like Google Glass might be used for informal science education. In this post, I look at four use cases for Google Glass that I believe would make it (and similar augmented reality devices) a powerful tool for science learning. They …
A few weeks ago, I learned that the California Academy of Sciences had obtained a pair of Google Glass, Google’s early adopter attempt at creating augmented reality eyewear. Since I’ve done a lot of work and thinking in virtual and augmented reality before, I was pretty excited to get my hands on these glasses. My …