papers | syllabus-geo | syllabus-cs | text resume Positions: 06-xx: Research Scientist, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, UNH 00-06: PhD Student, Scripps Inst. of Oceanography 03-04: Software Engineer, SSV/MER Flight Team, JPL 98-99: Visiting Scientist, Field Robotics Center, Carnegie Mellon 96-00: Computer Scientist, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames 91-96: Consultant to USGS, SETI Institute, and NASA Ames 89-90: Associate Researcher, NASA Ames Education: PhD Geology and Geophysics, SIO, 2006 BS Geology (w/ robotics and computer graphics courses), Stanford, 1996 Papers: See here: papers Refereces: Available on request Awards: 02-04 - Cal-IT2 fellowship 09/02 - 1st place - SIO Scientific Visualization Contest 08/00 - Nimitz Fellowship at Scripps Inst of Oceanography 11/98 - AT&T Student Research Day, Judge for the PhD poster competition 11/98 - AT&T Student Research Day, Advisee Derbes won BS/MS session 10/98 - NASA Ames, Contractor Certificate of Excellence 05/98 - NASA Ames, Group Achievement Award for "VR for Pathfinder" 05/98 - NASA Ames Group Achievement Award for Ames Open House 02/98 - Aviation Week, Laurels 1997 Honoree,"VR for Pathfinder" 10/97 - NASA Ames, Contractor Cert of Excellence, "VR for Pathfinder" 06/94 - NAGT-USGS, Nominated for Field Training Program 10/90 - ARRL Scholarship Honoring Barry Goldwater 04/90 - Technology Center of Silicon Valley, Martian Motion Grand prize 09/88 - Eagle Scout Funded Proposals (selected sample): 2004 BP/SIO: Technologies to image and characterize the seafloor and subseafloor - Press Release 2004 NSF OCE 0425919: Tauxe and Driscoll, AMS Studies of the Humboldt Slide, at SIO 2001 NSF&ONR SGER: Driscoll, Anisotropy of magnetic suseptibility: An approach to detect post depostional deformation, at SIO 1999 NASA Learners: Networked Robotic Learning Environment, at CMU 1996 NASA TRIWG: Positioning for Robotic Systems, at Stanford, CMU, and NASA Ames Teaching: 2004: TA for Erth001 - The Planets 2003: TA for Erth001 - The Planets 2002: TA for Erth010 - The Earth Lectures/Talks: 2004: Earth130 Geodynamics Terrestrial Planets: Mars Exploration Rovers 2004: Earth110 GIS: GIS for Mars Exploration Rovers 2004: Earth001 The Planets: Mars Exploration Rovers 2004: BP: Santa Barbara Basin, Magnetic Fabrics with Deformation 2004: NSF ERESE: Visualization for Scientific Discovery 2004: GeoWall Summit: Mars Data - Acquistion and Interpretation 2004: SIO IGPP Seminar: Mars Exploration Rovers 2004: AVID - Gompers High School: Mars Exploration Rovers 2003: SIO Viz Center: Scientific visualization short course (4 lectures) 2003: UCSD Extension: Geology and beach processes of Torrey Pines 2003: MBARI: Deciphering the Humboldt Slide 2003: ComiCon: Robotics for Mars Exploration 2003: Meet the Scripps Explorers: Why study mud from the ocean? 2003: ExxonMobile: XCore for visualizing geologic cores 2003: USGS Menlo Park: Deciphering the Origin of the Humboldt Slide 2002: Earth010 The Earth: Sedimentary Rocks of San Diego 2002: SIO Student Seminar: XCore - interpreting marine sediment cores 2001: SIO E&M Group: Sediment deformation effects on AMS and NRM 2000: CMU FRC: Mars Polar Lander Ground Data System 1999: KUSI TV: Review of the Mars Polar Lander mission 1999: MBARI: Autonomous Navigation for Mars Rovers 1999: CWRU Robotics and AI Society: Sensing & Vision for Planetary Expl 1998: NASA Ames Open House: The Marsokhod Rover 1997: Tech Museum of Silicon Valley: Robotic Exploration Program Mars NASA Mission Teams Fight 2004: Mars Exploration Rovers - 3D visualization and data processing 1999: Mars Polar Lander - integration of image processing & stereo vision 1997: Mars Pathfinder - Integrator for Ames Stereo Pipeline and MarsMap Other 1998: Deployed to Antarctica for Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search 1998: Deployed to Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Candian Artic 1997: Nomad in Chilean Atacama - Science team, networking, realtime 1996: Marsokhod in AZ Desert - Realtime systems & Science team trainer 1995: TROV in Mono Lake - Science logger, ROV Pilot, etc 1993: Deployed to South Shore, Lake Tahoe with ROV Ship time 2004 - R/V Sproul - BPSIO - 8 days in the Santa Barbara Basin 2003 - R/V Sproul - 4 days off of San Diego and Orange Counties 2002 - RVIB Palmer - NBP0209 - 1 month from New Zealand to McMurdo 2002 - R/V Sproul - 1 day off La Jolla, Ca 2001 - R/V Thompsen - TTN136B - Chief Scientist - 9 days Humboldt, Ca 2001 - R/V Sproul - 1 day San Diego, Ca 1995 - NASA/MBARI Converted house boat. 2 weeks on Mono Lake, Ca Primary Software Background These are things that I frequently. List from most to least for each category. This is to give you a feel for my development style which is very GNU centric with POSIX style system calls. Languages - C++ w/ STL, GNU Make, Bash, Python, PHP Computer Graphics - OpenInventor (Coin & SIM Voleon), Fledermaus OSes - Mac OSX, Linux, IRIX, SunOS 5.8, VxWorks (without tornado) Development Tools/Environment - g++, gdb, emacs, cvs, flex, bison, doxygen, gnuplot, gengetopts, tcpdump Fink developer with CVS write access See my complete text resume for more details Expanded text resume with project descriptions is here. © 2004 Kurt Schwehr