Kurt Schwehr, PhD Resume / Curriculum Vitae ( Extra long version 2017-04 ) Address: San Francisco Bay Area, CA EMAIL: schwehr@gmail.com -- schwehr@google.com WWW: http://schwehr.org/blog/archives/index.html WWW: http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/ Videos: http://www.youtube.com/user/goatbar EDUCATION: PhD Earth Science (Geology and Geophysics), 2006 - Scripps Inst of Oceanography Co-Chairs: Lisa Tauxe and Neal Driscoll Committee: Scott Ashford, Kevin Brown, Yuri Fialko, Catherine Johnson Title: Paleomagnetic and Stratigraphic Techniques for Identifying Sediment Processes on Continental Margins BS Geology, 1996 - Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. With masters level computer science coursework Advisors: Geology - Jonathan Stebbins Computer Science - Oussama Khatib POSITIONS: 2012-: Engineer, Google. 2012-: Affiliate Faculty, Center for Coastal & Ocean Mapping/JHC, UNH. 2012: Visiting Faculty, Mars Science Laboratory, Solar System Visualization (SSV), NASA JPL. 2011-: Affiliate Faculty, Earth Sciences, University of New Hampshire. 2009-: Affiliate Faculty, Computer Science, University of New Hampshire. 2007-11: Research Assistant Professor, Ocean Engineering and CCOM/JHC, University of New Hampshire. 2011: Visiting Faculty, Google Oceans, Google. 2008-10: Associate Researcher, NASA Ames 2008: Research Director of the Digital terrain models and Earth Analogs (DEA) Laboratory, JPL. 2005-06: Research Faculty, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping/JHC, University of New Hampshire. 2000-06: PhD Student, Scripps Inst of Oceanography, UCSD. 2003-04: Software Engineer, MER flight team, JPL. 2001: Chief Scientist, TTN136B, Eureka, CA. 2000: CTO, Etool & Die, LA. 1998-00: Visiting Scientist, Field Robotics Center, CMU, PA. 1996-00: Computer Scientist, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames. 1991-96: Consultant to USGS, SETI Institute, Stanford, and NASA Ames. 1989-90: Associate Researcher, NASA Ames. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: - Global Fishing Watch - Image and vector processing at Google. - Member of the GDAL Project Management Committee. - Faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and the University of New Hampshire (UNH) - total of 8 years. - Team member for 7 mars lander spacecraft: MPF, Sojourner, MPL (crashed), Spirit and Opportunity (MER), Phoenix (PHX), Curiosity (MSL). - Lead developer of the Right whale AIS Project releasing the Whale Alert iOS App - Published Schwehr and Tauxe, Geology, 2003 - Co-author on IMO Circular 289 for AIS Area Notices - Initial developer of the Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) and was drafted for Deep Water Horizon (DWH) - Real-time software, networking, vision, & visualization for prototype mars rovers - Co-founded Viz and the Stereopipeline (STP) at NASA Ames - Field geology in Yellowstone, GBNP, Haughton Crater, and Antarctica - Published multiple open source software libraries - Fink packager for over 10 years - Chief scientist for geology and geophysics research cruises - Worked on the early research behind Kepler which has found many exoplanets PROJECTS: (partial) See also: http://schwehr.org/blog and http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/papers/ 2015-: Earth Engine at Google. 2014-: Global Fishing Watch - http://globalfishingwatch.org/ 2012-: GDAL contributor. 2012-: Ocean Engineer / GIS Data Engineer in Maps/Earth/Geo for Oceans at Google Software engineering, data wrangling, etc for Google. Working with the community on was to improve techniques for global collection, processing and visualization of marine and limnological (lakes) data. Member of the team bringing images, terrain and vector data into Google's Geo products. Software development in a large scale setting using Python, C++, and Java with testing, mocking, and distributed computing. 2012-13: All the ships in the world at Google. 2012-15: Bathymetry ingestion into Earth and Maps at Google. 2012-13: NASA JPL's Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 2006-11: Lead of the Chart of the Future, CCOM, UNH Automatic Identification System (AIS), MISLE, MSIS, ship navigation, data analysis, GeoZui4D, OpenInventor, etc. NOAA funded project. Google Earth. Survey to Chart processing to visualization. Sub-projects: Ship traffic analysis, AIS Binary Messages, Digital / GeoCoastPilot, IALA AIS binary Message Register Google Earth visualizations, Wikis and other collaboration technology, Environmental Response Management Application (ERMA) / NOAA GeoPlatform, Spatial Scholar, and many more. 2006-11: Principle Investigator, Rightwhale AIS Project (RAP), CCOM, UNH. With Cornell University to provide the AIS system for right whale notices in the Boston Approaches. Continuing on in an advising role from 2012 on. WhaleAlert iOS and Android app. 11/08-09/09: JPL Solar System Visualization group (SSV) Phoenix Mars Lander mission support. Ran the visualization team for two months of operations. Proceed and directed 3D visualizations, processed telemetry data for arm kinematics, created static visualizations for press releases, ran the 3D visualizations for one episode of live NASA TV, release manager and authorization person for press releases, system administration and network operations. Software design in C++, Python, and OpenInventor. 7/07-10/08: JPL Solar System Visualization group (SSV)/Phoenix Mars Rover Working at JPL on the Phoenix Mars Rover ground data systems and visualization. 2D and 3D visualizations. On site press release coordinator for the visualizations for 2 months. UNH Principle Investigator. 12/03-3/04: Software Engineer, JPL Mars Exploration Rovers, MIPL/SSV Mars Landers visualization team with Eric DeJong. 2D image processing, 3D modeling, digital video, system administration, MySQL database work, C++, OpenInventor, etc. National Access Check (NAC) clearance. 9/00-2/06: Graduate Student - Scripps Inst of Oceanography Geology and Geophysics. Working on paleomagnetism and sediment deformation. Won the 1st annual SIO Visualization Competition with a program I was the sole creator, designer, and coder. The program is called X-Core. http://schwehr.org/viz02/ Chief Scientist of cruise leg TTN136B of the R/V Tommy Thompson Nov 3 & 4th, 2001 off of Eureka CA. Led science team of 11 doing large diameter piston coring and hydrosweeping. Coring was done utilizing the OSU piston core team and core logging was performed at UofW using a GeoTek logger. The collected data will be used for my research and thesis. Processing of cores for my research includes: core description, core photographing, smear slides, smear slide descriptions, using planktonic forams for C14 AMS dating and delta18O, Magnetic fabric using AMS, NRM, AF Demag, etc. I'm certified for using radiation producing equipment & the core logging has included digital xraying, gamma, and sonic logs. I have also built a simple core logger for measuring MS. etc. Created, designed and wrote X-Core processing and display package for processing and interpreting data (especially magnetic) from sediment cores. Written in C++, bash, and python using OpenInventor. NBP0209 - Science crew member on ice breaker from New Zealand to McMurdo, Antarctica. General geophysics cruise including single channel seismics, 1st cruise with EM120 doing ice breaking, magnetometer, 3.5kHz, and XBTs. Did on board visualizations using OpenInventor and tons of ping editing with MB-System.. Designed a 3D Volumetric processing package called Density based around SIM Voleon. Provides tools for constructing volumes, assigning color maps, and viewing OpenInventor geometry with volume data. Used the system to visualize AMS eigen parameters. Also has a query tool for integrating volumes. Plus much more including python, SQLite database work, statistical analysis, ARM, IRM, AGFM, etc. 1/00-6/00: Chief Technical Officer - Etool & Die, New Orleans, LA Design and develop the infrastructure for a then rapidly growing set of internet companies. Technical management. Implementations in Java Servlets, databases, distributed and redundant architectures. Board member. 9/99-3/00: NASA Ames - RECOM Tech - Mars Polar Lander/MVACS Lander Mission. Lead integration of the JAMES (JPL/Ames) image pipeline which processes images from FEI to produce data sets for JPL's WITS robot control interface and the NASA Ames Viz Virtual Reality architecture. Developed a completely automated system using Bash. 2D and 3D visualization engineer. Provided system support for SGI computers. Developed cross section tool for Viz. http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/mvacs/site/credits.html 1/99-1/00: Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics Institute - Consultant for Big Signal Lead software architect for Event Scope, a NASA funded education program to bring 3D planetary experiences to K-12 grade level students using Mac OS/9 and Windows 98. Designer of the "Rock Comparison Tool" for students working on the data from the Jan 2000 Nomad rover mission to Antarctica. Digitized terrestrial rocks and meteorites in pseudo 3D. Worked with Bill Cassidy and Liam Pedersen on the meteorites. 10/99: RECOM Technologies - Consulting Writer. Wrote a section, "Safety concerns working with Field Robotics" for the Code IC contract recompete of the multi-million dollar per year contract. Covered safe use and operation of robots for field team members working at customers' sites. 10/98-8/99: Carnegie Mellon University - Field Robotics Center - Visiting Scientist - Intelligent Robotics Program Worked with Reid Simmons, Sanjiv Singh, and Tony Stentz on global path planning (D*), local obstacle avoidance (Morphin), planning arbitration (NREC's Arbiter), and realtime stereo vision (JPL Stereo). Lead integrator and VxWork/Tornado engineer. Began integration with JPL's Rocky 7 and Rocky 8/FIDO rovers. 12/98-3/99: Carnegie Mellon University - Field Robotics Center - Proposal Lead Originator and lead for a proposal to the NSF Life in Extreme Environments Program (LExEn), titled "Robotic Exploration and Biological Sampling of Geothermal Vents." Organized a multi- disciplinary team consisting of chemical engineering, biotechnology, geology, robotics, and web teaching experts. See http://schwehr.org/yellowstone. 11/97-10/98: NASA Ames - RECOM Technologies - Viz Lead designer and project manager of the Viz client-server system for the initial system design phase. Viz provides real-time robotic vehicle visualizing and planning. The system has been used with the TROV submersible, Dexterous Walker robot, the Marsokhod rover, and the Mars Polar Lander/MVACS payload. Extensive development using C++, OpenInventor, Python, XDR/Sockets, and multi-CPU threading. Viz systems are in place at Cornell University for the Mars 03/04 team and NASA Headquarters for David Lavery. http://schwehr.org/viz/ 8/96-10/98: NASA Ames - RECOM Technologies - Network Security Security and SysAdmin for the Intelligent Mechanisms Group. Worked with the US Inspector General's office to handle and track break-ins to the Information Sciences division at NASA Ames. Secured SGI, Linux, and Sun workstations. 7/98-9/98: NASA Ames - Yellowstone National Park - Experiment lead 3D terrain modeling of hot springs and geysers using a stereo camera system with Dr. Deena Braunstein. 4/98-8/98: NASA Ames - Haughton Mars 1998 - 3D Vision Principle Investigator Deployed and used system in Haughton Crater, Devon Island, Nanavut, Canada. Studied field techniques for 3D terrain acquisition using parallax stereo pairs in a Mars analog environment. Designed and integrated field portable Linux based stereo correlation imaging system with D. Christian and E. Zbinden. 8/97-3/98: NASA Ames/CMU - Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search, Antarctica. Field communications engineer for NASA's PORTCOM TDRSS geosynchronous satellite system. Did a proof of concept of polar communications with prototype hardware provided by Stanford Telecom. Field geologist doing meteorite search on moraines near Patriot Hills, Antarctica. The team won the Congressional Antarctica Service Medal for the 1999-2000 field season, which included software I wrote on the vehicle. 2-7/97: NASA Ames - Mars Pathfinder Virtual Environment Team Lead integrator of a system to perform real-time terrain construction of the area surrounding the Pathfinder landing site. Engineer for the Ames Stereo Pipeline and Marsmap. The system was in place in Vice President Al Gore's office during 1997. 11/96-7/97: NASA Ames/CMU - Nomad Rover Atacama Trek Team lead for US side of the magnetic meteorite search experiment. Team member doing field geology and image processing. Member of the 5 person group who found the fossil with the Nomad science system. Designed and implemented a real-time network distribution protocol for live panospheric video from a WinNT imaging system on the Nomad Rover. Images were displayed simultaneously in real-time on multiple SGI workstations across the United States. Designed a reliable burst mode protocol for sending high resolution science images over unreliable long-narrow satellite connections. Rewrote the network interface for the 2D rover control interface, the Virtual Dashboard, to allow greater reliability and ease of use. Co-designed the network between the Chilean Desert to multiple sites in the US. Rover pilot. 12/96-4/97: NASA Ames - Vermilion Rover Visualization NASA Ames consultant for Fourth Planet's design and implementation of a rover visualization system using Java/VRML running on WindowsNT using Cosmo/Netscape with the EAI interface. 6-8/96: NASA Ames - Intelligent Mechanisms Group Software development for Marsokhod (Russian mars rover). Arm control software rewrite. Developed micro-stepping panorama software for VxWorks and RTI's NDDS. Wrote the "Panoramic Display Designation Tool" (PDDT) for manipulating panoramas using Xt, Motif, and SGI Image Vision library. Wrote a Tcl/Ndds automatic code generator with bison/flex that uses the XDR definition files to generate C code to convert data structures between Ndds/C and Tcl/Tk. Worked on developing procedures to the filter wheel camera for classification of rocks in the robots view. 3/96-7/96: Stanford University - Stephan Matthai Custom OpenGL plotting program using Flex/Bison parser of meshes for flow analysis using Dr. Matthai's finite element engine. The parser can also output LaTeX pictures instead of rendering with OpenGL. 8/95: NASA Ames - MAPS program with Farmer, Stakes, and Stoker ROV expedition to Mono Lake, CA. Field engineer, geologist, ROV pilot, sonar operator, Dive Tracker operator, deck hand, etc. 9/96 7-8/95 Stanford University, Dept of Geology with Dr. Deena Braunstein Field Assistant mapping sedimentary processes of hot springs in Yellowstone National Park. 3 Weeks of field work and 1 week exploratory field trip with Professor Don Lowe in June. 4/95-7/95: Stanford University, Dept of Geology, Rock Fracture Project Wrote user interfaces for three structural geology simulation programs. Used OpenGL, Inventor, and Xforms on SGI's. 8/94: NASA Ames - Virtual Planetary Exploration Lab Setup a GRASS GIS system using SGI workstations for Michael McGreevy. Worked with Kilauea, Great Basin National Park, and Mars Viking data sets to demonstrate rapid data import and visualization capabilities. Co-wrote a GIS/GRASS tutorial for the lab. 6/94-3/95: USGS Menlo Park, Geologist/GIS technician Field mapping and GIS digitizing of the Southern Snake Range, Nevada. Created Arc/Info and GRASS databases for the Great Basin National Park. Finished work on a draft USGS open file report (unpublished). 10/92-3/93, 10/93-3/94: Stanford University, School of Engineering, Tutor Tutor for C programming classes, UNIX and C programming, intro to geology. Academic trainer for students on academic probation. 10/93-3/94: Stanford - Ron Lyon - Independent GIS Project Establishing a basis for GIS work at Stanford using GRASS and IDRISI GIS. 6-8/93: Stanford Geological Survey with Prof. Elizabeth Miller Mapped sections of two 7.5U quadrangles and co-authored a USGS open file report on the Southern Snake Range, Nevada with Professors Elizabeth Miller and Phil Gans. 1-6/93: Stanford University, Space Systems Engineering class Participated in the design of the 1993 Stanford International Mars Mission (SIMM). Wrote the sections on Mars Surface Science, Precursor Rover Mission Options, Exploration Vehicle Science Equipment, and Autonomous Rovers and Virtual Environments. 6-8/92: NASA Ames - Carol Stoker - TROV Telepresence Demonstration Project Lead a team of three to develop real-time control and sensor logging system for a NASA remotely operated submersible. Used C to implement head tracking of the vehicle camera, camera control, and vehicle navigation based on landmarks. Worked with Bill Polhemus on 3D trackers and a unique fiber optic based head mounted display. Accompanied vehicle to Tahoe Lake to study submerged trees and hydrology. Vehicle sent to Lake Hoare, Dry Valleys, Antarctica to study a Mars Analog Environment. Featured on ABC's Nightline, "Live from Antarctica," 12/92. 7-11/91: NASA Ames - Fairborn Observatory Robotic Telescope - William Borucki Remotely analyzed photometric data from a robotic telescope searching for extra-solar planets. Periodogram and power spectrum software written in FORTRAN. http://kepler.nasa.gov/ 7-9/90: NASA Ames - SETI Institute for William Borucki Wrote a background study on the static charging of Martial soil, covering triboluminescence, martian soil and dust composition, palagonite, SNC meteorites, dust storms, and electricity in volcanic clouds. Included Fortran 66 / F77 and punch cards. 10/89-6/90: NASA Ames - William Borucki - Associate Researcher Wrote a software package to control a photometric telescope. The software provided real-time analysis and configuration of the system. https://kepler.nasa.gov/ 2-4/90: Martian Motion Design Challenge - FMC, NASA, Technology Center of Silicon Valley Grand Prize - Designed a machine to sort a simulated martian soil sample into its constituents. Fastest perfect sort. Used size and color to separate types automatically. 2-4/90: Martian Motion Design Challenge - FMC, NASA, Technology Center of Silicon Valley Most Spectacular - Designed a wall climber. Used a catapult to launch a grappling hook. Vehicle then pulled itself up the wall. 2-4/89: Martian Motion Design Challenge - FMC, NASA, Technology Center of Silicon Valley 2nd place, Slowest Crossing, and Most Unusual Materials - Designed a vehicle to pull the largest amount of weight across a simulated martian surface. Used hair curlers for tread and Legos, chop sticks, and a fiber optics spool for the frame. 1987-1990: Independent Peer Socialization Training Program, Los Altos, CA Counselor for autistic and neurologically handicapped teenagers. SELECTED AWARDS, CERTIFICATIONS, AND HONORS: 09/11 - 2011 Finalist - Amy Merten and team - 1of4 finalists - Samuel J. Heyman Partnership for Public Service to America Medal for Homeland Security. 05/11 - 2011 Finalist - Homeland Security Medal - "Amy Merten and the ERMA Team." 10/10 - GCN top 10 government website. ERMA/GeoPlatform for Deepwater Horizon. 03/06 - NASA Software Release Award - "K9 Rover Control Software" ARC-14587-1 10/02 - Cal-IT2 fellowship 2002-2006 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, One of my advisees from summer 1998, Alex Derbes won the BS/MS poster session. His poster title, "Mars Pathfinder robotics visualization applied to marine archeology." 10/98 - NASA Ames, Contractor Certificate of Excellence. 05/98 - NASA Ames, Group Achievement Award for the "Virtual Reality For Mars Pathfinder Project." 05/98 - NASA Ames Group Achievement Award for the "Ames Community Day Open House Team." 02/98 - Aviation Week and Space Technologies, Laurels 1997 Honoree for the "Virtual Reality for Mars Pathfinder" project. 10/97 - NASA Ames, Contractor Certificate of Excellence, for the "Virtual Reality for Mars Pathfinder" project. 06/94 - NAGT-USGS, Nominated for the Cooperative Summer Field Training Program. 11/93 - Stanford University, Computer Science, Accepted to the Master Program. 01/93 - SCUBA Diver - Certified PADI Open Water Diver. 10/90 - ARRL Scholarship Honoring Barry Goldwater. 08/90 - Order of the Eastern Star Scholarship Award. 05/90 - Sons of the American Revolution, First Place in Essay Contest for California. 04/90 - Frank Livermore Trust, Eagle Scout Scholarship. 04/90 - Technology Center of Silicon Valley, Martian Motion Grand prize. 04/90 - San Francisco Bay Area Engineering Council Scholarship. 02/90 - Hewlett Packard scholarship award. 01/90 - Ham Radio - Technician Class. 06/89 - National Merit Commended Scholar. 09/88 - Eagle Scout. 06/88 - Technology and Society Committee, winner of essay contest with essay, "The Future of Thinking Machines." TALKS/PRESENTATIONS: 11/13 - Ships Around the World, O'Reilly Strata, London, England, with M. Marks 07/13 - Touring Earth's Oceans in Google Earth, Google Teachers Institute. 05/13 - All the Ships in the World, Google I/O. 05/13 - Google Oceans - 1 hour tutorial, Oceans - Challenges and Opportunities, Porto, Portugal. 05/13 - Google Oceans - short overview, Oceans - Challenges and Opportunities, Porto, Portugal. 04/13 - Classification of Bathymetry Grids using Open Source Tools, AAG, Los Angeles. 01/13 - Google Ocean Project, To DNV, for the Berkeley Biz School visit to Google. 11/12 - Google Ocean Project, Global MPA Enforcement Conference, WildAid, San Francisco, CA. co-presented with Jenifer Foulkes. 11/12 - Google Oceans, Presented to the EU Climate KIC group attending Berkeley Business School, Mountain View, CA. 10/12 - Google Oceans, Presented to Maersk attending the Berkeley Business School, Mountain View, CA. 07/12 - Delay Tolerant Data Collections / Bathymetry in Google Earth, DTNRG, Mountain View, CA 04/12 - WhaleALERT iPhone/iPad App, US Congressional Workshop, Longworth Building, DC. 04/12 - Berkeley Haas Business School, DNV technical training, Spatial Data and Visualizations a for Understanding for the Marine Environment. 04/12 - UNH Smartphone App Helps Ships Avoid Endangered Whales, Interviewed by Brady Carlson of All Things Considered, NHPR. 03/12 - Oil Spill Lessons, Talk of Alaska, Radio show hosted by Steve Heimel of Alaska Public Radio News. 10/11 - UNH Know the Coast Day, ERMA. 09/11 - Paleomagnetic and Stratigraphic Techniques for Identifying Sediment Processes on Continental Slopes, Earth Science Brown Bag Seminar Series, UNH. 04/11 - 4D Non-bathy Data in Support of Hydrographic Planning, 3D/4D Visualization Techniques for Quality Control and Processing workshop, US Hydro, Tampa, FL. 01/11 - Response Logistics: ERMA and GeoPlatform, Lessons Learned from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, Alaska Marine Science Symposium. 09/10 - ERMA: From Portsmouth Response to NOAA’s GeoPlatform Gulf Response, CCOM. 04/10 - Preparing future faculty, Panel, UNH. 03/10 - Open Access and Open Content in Education, Panel, UNH CS Manchester. 02/10 - Landing Robots on Another Planet, MENSA, NH. 04/09 - Calder and Schwehr, Traffic Analysis for Calibration of Risk Assessment Methods, CCOM. 02/09 - Schwehr, K., M. Plumlee, B. Sullivan, C. Ware, GeoCoastPilot: Linking the Coast Pilot with Geo-referenced Imagery & Chart Information, IHO Standardization of Nautical Publications Working Group (SNPWG), 10, Norfolk, VA, 26 Feb 2009. Invited talk. 01/09 - Alexander, L., K. Schwehr, Concept: IALA AIS Binary Messages Web site for message Catalog and Register, IALA AIS Working Group, Key West, FL.. 01/09 - Schwehr, K, Spaulding, E., Tremblay, C., Rightwhale AIS Project (RAP) - Initial presentation to LNG Companies, Gateway Corp Offices, Gloucester, MA. 12/08 - Schwehr - Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment: Decision Support, Intelligent Robotics Group, NASA Ames Research Center. 11/08 - Schwehr - Applications of Coastal Science to Today's Issues, Geological Sciences 434/634 Class, University of Delaware. 10/08 - Schwehr - Phoenix - CCOM Seminar Series 10/08 - Plumlee, Schwehr, Sullivan, Ware, GeoCoastPilot - Linking the Coast Pilot with Geo-referenced Imagery & Chart Information, Shallow Survey 2008, Newcastle, NH. 10/08 - Wiley, Schwehr, Baker, Box, Hatch, Rightwhale AIS Project initial demonstration, Boston Port Operators Group (POG), Boston, MA. 09/08 - Schwehr and Alexander, Rightwhale AIS Project update, RTCM SC121 working group, Arlington, VA. 08/08 - Plumlee, Ware, Schwehr, GeoCoastPilot, presented to the NOAA CoastPilot team, CCOM, UNH. 07/08 - CCOM/JHC NOAA review 07/08 - P. Smith, K. Schwehr, E. De Jong, S. Suzuki, Mars Surface Exploration Visualization on the 50ft Panorama Screen, presented to the Phoenix Team, Tucson, AZ. 06/08 - P. Smith, K. Schwehr, G. Lee, Phoenix Mars Lander Update for Sol 23, presented to Charles Elachi, Director of JPL, Tucson, AZ 06/08 - De Jong et al, Visualizations for the Phoenix Mars Lander, SOC, Tucson. 05/08 - De Jong et al, Solar System Visualization for the Phoenix Mars Lander, presented to Charles Elachi, Director of JPL and Gentry Lee, Tucson, AZ 05/08 - Using the Image Products Release Website (IPRW), Phoenix SOC Software Training, Tucson, AZ. 05/08 - AIS Binary Message Registry Version 0.1, RTCM SC121 AIS Messages for VTS Working Group, San Diego, CA. 05/08 - C. Ware, M. Plumlee, K. Schwehr, The Digital Coast Pilot (GeoCoastPilot), CCOM Seminar Series, UNH. 04/08 - Wiki Wiki Whales, AIS for Right Whale Notifications and the CCOM Wiki, CCOM Seminar Series, UNH. 03/08 - Careers in Ocean Mapping, Epping Boy Scout's Order of the Arrow Meeting 07/07 - CCOM/JHC NOAA review 05/07 - Google Earth Visualizations: Preview and Delivery of Hydrographic and Other Marine Datasets Schwehr, K., Sullivan, B., Gardner, J. V. (2007), , US Hydro 2007, 14-17 May, abstract and talk. 07/06 - CCOM/JHC NOAA review 02/07 - Exploration Visualization, UNH Computer Science Graduate Seminary Series. 08/06 - Moderator, "20000 bits Under the Sea: How Robotics, Visualization, and Scientific Computing Are Changing the Way We Explore, Discover, and Understand Our Oceans," SIGGRAPH 2006 special session, Boston, MA. 06/05 - "From Mars to the Oceans: Software for Exploration," UNH CCOM seminar series. 01/05 - "Designing visualization software for ships and robotic vehicles," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-23, San Jose, CA. 01/05 - Visualization tools facilitate geological investigations of Mars exploration rover landing sites," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-15, SPIE, San Jose, CA. 10/04 - "Santa Barbara Basin, Magnetic Fabrics with Deformation: Gaviota Slide, The Crack, Goleta Slide," BP, at SIO. $3M grant. 07/04 - "Visualization for Scientific Discovery," Enduring Resources for Each Science Education (ERESE), NSF National Science Digital Library (NSDL), at SIO. 05/04 - "Mars Data - Acquisition and Interpretation Issues," Invited Talk, GeoWall Summit, La Jolla, CA. 04/04 - "Mars Exploration Rovers," IGPP Geophysics Seminar Series, SIO. 04/04 - "Mars Exploration Rovers," AVID, Gompers High School, San Diego. 07/03 - "Deciphering the Humboldt Slide Using Magnetics and 3D Core Visualization," MBARI. 07/03 - "Robotics for Mars Exploration," Comic-Con, San Diego. 06/03 - "Why study mud and muck from the bottom of the ocean? Understanding the chances of tsunamis along the California coast," Meet the Scripps Explorers, Del Mar fair, San Diego. 05/03 - "Exploring the Surface of Mars: Autonomy and Mobility for Planetary Geology," CalSpace at UCSD. 05/03 - "CVS - version control for group projects," Geodynamics Group, SIO. 05/03 - "XCore for visualizing geologic cores," presented to Exxon/Mobile at SIO. 05/03 - "XCore for visualizing geologic cores," presented to IVS and ESRI at SIO. 04/03 - "Deciphering the Origin of the Humboldt Slide using Magnetics and 3D Core Visualization," USGS, Menlo Park. 03/03 - "Visualization of marine magnetics data", EM Group, Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA. 11/02 - "XCore - Processing and interpreting marine sediment cores", SIO Student Seminar, La Jolla, CA. 09/01 - "Sediment deformation effects on AMS and NRM," EM Group, Scripps Inst of Oceanography, CA. 01/00 - Field Robotics Institute, CMU, PA, "Mars Polar Lander Ground Data System." 12/99 - KUSI TV Morning News Show, San Diego, CA., "Review of the Mars Polar Lander mission." 09/99 - Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing CA, "Autonomous Navigation for Mars Rovers." http://www.mbari.org/itd/seminars/past99seminars/Sept_3_99.html 01/99 - Sensing and Vision for Planetary Exploration, Case Western Reserve University. http://home.cwru.edu/crais/notes/1-23-99.txt http://home.cwru.edu/crais/news.html 02/97 - "NASA's Robotic Exploration Program for Mars," Technology Challenge Opening Seminar, Tech Museum of Silicon Valley. PUBLICATIONS: See: http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/papers/ Francesc Campoy Flores, Mano Marks, Kurt Schwehr, All the Ships in the World: Visualizing Data with Google Cloud and Maps, Google I/O, May, 2013. Brendan Kenny, Google Maps + HTML5 + Spatial Data Visualization: A Love Story, Google I/O, May, 2013. Unnamed contributor. K. Schwehr, Google Oceans - 1 hour tutorial, Oceans - Challenges and Opportunities, Porto, Portugal, May 13, 2013. K. Schwehr, Google Oceans - short overview, Oceans - Challenges and Opportunities, Porto, Portugal, May 16, 2013. K. Schwehr, J. Adams, J. Austin Foulkes, Classification of Bathymetry Grids using Open Source Tools, AAG Annual Meeting, April 09, 2013. Mano Marks and Brendan Kenny, Mapping Hidden Stories, Strata 2013 Conference, 27 Feb 2013. Unnamed contributor. David Wiley, Roland Arsenault, Christopher W. Clark, Tim Cole, Peter DeCola. Deborah Hadden, Beth Josephson, Christin Khan, Jake Levenson, Patrick Ramage, Kurt Schwehr, Michael Thompson, Brad Wellock, Brad Winney, Whale Alert: A mobile app for transmitting right whale conservation and management information to the maritime industry, Annual Meeting of the 2012 North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium: 13-14 November, New Bedford, MA, 2012. David Wiley, Roland Arsenault, Christopher W. Clark, Tim Cole, Peter DeCola, Deborah Hadden, Beth Josephson, Jake Levensen, Patrick Ramage, Kurt Schwehr, Michael Thompson, Brad Wellock, Brad Winney, Whale Alert: A mobile app for transmitting right whale conservation and management information to the maritime industry, International Workshop "Maritime Transport and Biodiversity Conservation: Concerting Efforts for a Coherent Management of the Risk of Whale- Ship Strikes", Canary Islands (Spain) on October 25th – 26th, 2012. Schwehr, Vessel Tracking Using the Automatic Identification System (AIS) During Emergency Response: Lessons from the Deepwater Horizon Incident, US Hydro, Tampa, FL, 14pp., 26 April 2011. Schwehr, Armstrong, Brennan, Fischman, Sellars, Smith, Bathymetric Attributed Grids (BAGs): Discovery of Marine Datasets and Geospatial Metadata Visualization, Canadian Hydrographic Conference, June 2010. Schwehr, Interplanetary Observation: Mars Rover Platform, Sensors, and Applications, Ocean Observing: Thinking Outside the Basin, MTS TechSurge, Norfolk, VA, 9 June 2010. Alexander, L, Schwehr, K., New Standards for Providing Meteorological and Hydrographic Information via AIS Application-Specific Messages, International Hydrographic Review, No. 3, pp 37-44, 2010. Alexander, L., Schwehr. K., Zetterberg, R. Establishing an IALA AIS Binary Message Register: Recommended Process, 17th IALA Conference, pp. 108-115, Cape Town, South Africa, 22-27 March 2010. IMO, Guidance for the Presentation and Display of AIS Application-Specific Messages Information, IMO, SN.1/Circ.290, Ref. T2-OSS/2.7.1, 2 June 2010. IMO, Guidance on the Use of AIS Application-Specific Messages, IMO, SN.1/Circ.289, Ref. T2-OSS/2.7.1, 2 June 2010. J. Daniell, N. Ujihara, B. Mahabier, A. Herwindya, F. Freire, Y. Zarayskaya, K. Schwehr, D. Monahan and S. Sharma, A Marine GIS for the Oceania region (MARGO); An exploratory project, Bathymetric Science, GEBCO, Lima, Peru, 15 Sept 2010. Plumlee, M., Schwehr (presenter), K., Alexander, L., Sullivan, B., Ware C. GeoCoastPilot Better ways of organizing and displaying information in support of port familiarization , MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, MI, Oct 26-29, 2009. McGillivary, P., Schwehr, K., Fall, K., Enhancing AIS to Improve Whale-Ship Collision Avoidance and Maritime Security, MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, MI, Oct 26-29, 2009. IMO AIS Binary Message Correspondence Group, Revision of the Guidance on the Application of AIS Binary Messages, Report from the AIS Binary Messages Correspondence Group, Submitted by Sweden, Annex 1, Guidance on the use of AIS Application Specific Messages, IMO NAV 55 conference, July 2009. Un-named contributor. Calder, B., Schwehr, K., Traffic Analysis for the Calibration of Risk Assessment Methods, US Hydro 2009, May 11-14, Norfolk, VA. Schwehr, K., M. Plumlee, B. Sullivan, C. Ware, GeoCoastPilot: Linking the Coast Pilot with Geo-referenced Imagery & Chart Information, IHO Standardization of Nautical Publications Working Group (SNPWG), 10, Norfolk, VA, 26 Feb 2009. Coastal Response Research Center, Opening the Arctic Seas: Envisioning Disasters and Framing Solutions. University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, Jan 1990. Un-named contributor. Kurt Schwehr, Google's Spatial Tools in the Marine Environment - Decision Support, Google Tech Talk, San Francisco, CA, Dec 16th, 2008. Video. Plumlee, Schwehr, Sullivan, Ware, GeoCoastPilot - Linking the Coast Pilot with Geo-referenced Imagery & Chart Information, Shallow Survey 2008, Portsmouth, NH, Oct 21-24, 2008. Schwehr, seismic-py: Reading seismic data with Python., The Python Papers, 3:2, 8 pages, Sep 4, 2008. Hatch, L., C. Clark, R. Merrick, S. Van Parijs, D. Ponirakis, K. Schwehr, M. Thompson, D. Wiley, Characterizing the Relative Contributions of Large Vessels to Total Ocean Noise Fields: A Case Study Using the Gerry E. Studds Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, Environmental Management, May 2008. Michele Jacobi, Nancy E. Kinner, Bobby H. Braswell, Kurt D. Schwehr, Kimberly S. Newman, Amy A. Merten, Environmental Response Management Application, International Oil Spill Conference, Savannah, Georgia, May 4-8, 2008. Braswell, B., K. Schwehr, T. Milliman, J. Fisk, Open Geoscience: Using Free and Open Source Software for Research and Education, AAG, Boston, MA, April 18, 2008. Schwehr, K., Alexander, L., Encoding AIS Binary Messages in XML Format for Providing Hydrographic-related Information, International Hydrographic Review, 8:2, pp 37-57, 2007. Schwehr, K.D., MiGillivary, P.A., Marine Ship Automatic Identification System (AIS) for Enhanced Coastal Security Capabilities: An Oil Spill Tracking Application, Oceans07 MTS/IEEE, Vancouver, B.C. 29 Sept - 4 Oct 2007. Schwehr, K., N. Driscoll, L. Tauxe, (2007) Origin of continental margin morphology: submarine-slide or downslope current-controlled bedforms, a rock magnetic approach, Marine Geology, 240:1-4, pp 19-41, doi:10.1016/j.margeo.2007.01.012. Schwehr, K., Alexander, L. (2007), Specification Format for AIS Binary Messages for Providing Hydrographic-related Information, US Hydro 2007, 14-17 May (poster and paper). Brennan, R Gallagher, B Riley, J Schwehr, K Alexander, L (2007), Tide Aware ENC: Demonstration of an Operational Concept, US Hydro 2007, 14-17 May (abstract+talk) Schwehr, K., Sullivan, B., Gardner, J. V. (2007), Google Earth Visualizations: Preview and Delivery of Hydrographic and Other Marine Datasets, US Hydro 2007, 14-17 May, abstract and talk only. Schwehr, K., L. Tauxe, N. Driscoll, and H. Lee (2006), Detecting compaction disequilibrium with anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility, Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst., 7, Q11002, doi:10.1029/2006GC001378. Curcio, J., P. A. McGillivary, K. Fall, A. Maffei, K. Schwehr, B. Twiggs, C. Kitts, P. Ballou, Self-Positioning Smart Buoys, The 'Un-Buoy' Solution: Logistic Considerations using Autonomous Surface Craft Technology and Improved Communications Infrastructure, IEEE MTS, Boston, MA, 2006. Schwehr, Derbes, Edwards, Nguyen, Zbinden, "Designing visualization software for ships and robotic vehicles," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-23, San Jose, CA., 18-Jan-2005. Nishimura, Johnson, Schwehr, Kilb and Nayak, "Visualization tools facilitate geological investigations of Mars exploration rover landing sites," IS&T/SPIE Paper Number 5669-15, San Jose, CA., 17-Jan-2005. Ben Constant, Alex James, Evan Morikawa, Debi Kilb, Atul Nayak, Kurt Schwehr, John Marquis, Mark Benthien, Duncan Agnew, Pat Abbot, Graham Kent, Deborah Kane, "Seismic-Sites: a Web-based Field Guide to the Faults of Southern California," Southern California Earthquake Center Anual Meeting, http://www.scec.org/meetings/2004am, Palm Springs, CA, 2004. Schwehr, K. and Tauxe, L., "Characterization of soft sediment deformation: Detection of crypto-slumps using magnetic methods," Geology, v. 31, no. 3, p. 203-206, 2003. Cabrol, N.A., G. Chong-diaz, C.R. Stoker, V.C. Gulick, R. Landheim, P. Lee, T.L. Roush, A.P. Zent, C. Herrera Lameli, A. Jensen iglesia, M. Pereeira Arrerondo, J. M. Dohm, r. keaton, d. Wetter Green, M. H. Sims, K. Schwher, m. G. Bualat, H.J. Thomas, E. Zbinden, D. Christian, L. Pedersen, A. Bettis III, G. Thomas, and B. Witzke, "Nomad Rover Field Experiment, Atacama Desert, Chile: 1. Science results overview," Journal of Geophysical Research, V. 106, No. E4, Pages 7785-7808, April 25, 2001 Laurent A. Nguyen, Maria Bualat, Laurence J. Edwards, Lorenzo Fluekiger, Charles Neveu, Kurt Schwehr, Michael D. Wagner, Eric Zbinden, "Virtual Reality Interfaces for Visualization and Control of Remote Vehicles," ICRA 2000. Sanjiv Singh, Kurt Schwehr, Reid Simmons, Trey Smith, Anthony Stentz, Vandi Verma, and Alex Yahja "Recent Progress in Local and Global Traversability for Planetary Rovers," ICRA2000. Eric Zbinden, Laurent Nguyen, Kurt Schwehr, "Viz: An Automated 3D Mapping System for Planetary Exploration," ISPRS II/I Amsterdam, Summer 2000. Kurt Schwehr, The JAMES Pipeline for the Mars Polar Lander/MVACS, unpublished. Draft available at http://schwehr.org/papers. Stoker, C.R., E. Zbinden, T. T. Blackmon, B. Kanefsky, J. Hagen, P. Henning, C. Neveu, D. Rasmussen, K. Schwehr and M. Sims, Analyzing Pathfinder Data using Virtual Reality and Super-resolved Imaging, J. Geophys. Res., Planets V104(E4), pp 8889-8906, Apr. 1999. P. Lee, W. A. Cassidy, D. Apostolopoulos, M. Deans, A. Foessel, C. Krause, J, Parra, L. Pedersen, K. Schwehr, R.P. Harvey, and W.L. Whittaker, "Search for Meteorites in the Patriot Hills Area, Ellsworth Mountains, West Antarctica," Meteoritics & Planetary Science, Vol. 33, No 4,S, pp A92-3, July 1998. Nathalie A. Cabrol, G. Chong Diaz, et al., Atacama I: Science Results of the 1997 Nomad Rover Field Test in the Atacama Desert, Chile, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998. Nathalie A. Cabrol, G. Chong Diaz, George Dunfield, et al., Atacama II: Nomad Rover Sample 1-250697 and Implications for Fossil Characterization During Mars Exploration, In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998. N. Cabrol, P. Lee, G. Chong Diaz, et al., Atacama III: Meteorite Search During the Nomad Field Tests: Perspectives on Automated Field Operations by Teleoperated Vehicles in Extreme Environments, In Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXIX, Houston, TX, 1998. C. Stoker, T. Blackmon, J. Hagen, B. Kanefsky, D. Rasmussen, K. Schwehr, M. Sims, E. Zbinden, "Marsmap: An Interactive Virtual Reality Model of the Pathfinder Landing Site," Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, Houston, TX. 1998. David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Daniel Christian, Kurt Schwehr, Hans Thomas, Deanne Tucker, Eric Zbinden, Operating Nomad during the Atacama Desert Trek, In Proc. Field and Service Robotics Conference, Canberra, Australia, December 1997. Daniel Christian, David Wettergreen, Maria Bualat, Kurt Schwehr, Deanne Tucker, Eric Zbinden, Field Experiments with the Ames Marsokhod Rover, In Proceedings of the 1997 Field and Service Robotics Conference, Canberra, Australia, December 1997. C. Stoker, T. Blackmon, J. Hagen, B. Kanefsky, C. Neveu, K. Schwehr, M. Sims, E. Zbinden, Poster, "MarsMap: Analyzing Pathfinder Data Using Virtual Reality," Section P22A, American Geophysical Union, 8-12 Dec 1997. K. Schwehr, "VEVI and the Stereo Pipeline for Terrain Visualization," Poster, Lunar and Planetary Science Conference XXVIII, Houston, TX., March, 1997. D. Christian, K. Schwehr, E. Zbinden, M. Sims, C. Stoker, "Demonstration of the Ames Marsokhod Rover," Rover Roundup, Planetary Society, Santa Monica, CA., Jan 1997. C. R. Stoker, D. Barch, J. Farmer, M. Flagg, T. Healy, T. Tengdin, H. Thomas, K. Schwer and D. Stakes, Exploration Of Mono Lake With An ROV: a prototype experiment for the MAPS AUV program, IEEE Symposium on Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Technology, June 3-6, Monterrey, CA, 1996. K. Schwehr, "Mono Lake ROV Exploration Field Notes," Delivered to Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, NASA Ames, Naval Postgrad School (MAPS), Available via web, 9-1995. K. Schwehr, "Arc/Info and GRASS Format Geology Databases for the Wheeler Peak and Minerva Canyon 7.5' Quadrangles, White Pine County, Nevada," delivered to the Great Basin National Park, NV, March 1995. Daniel Delgado and Kurt Schwehr, "GRASS Usage for Virtual Planetary Exploration," 1994, Internal User Guide, 43 pages. Elizabeth L. Miller, Phillip B. Gans, and the Stanford Geological Survey, "Geologic Map of Wheeler Peak and Minerva Canyon 7.5' Quadrangles, White Pine County, Nevada," Unpublished USGS Open File Report, somewhere in the USGS CR, 1993. Draft available via web. Members of the Stanford Geological Survey in 1993 included Jeffrey M. Amato, Kai S. Anderson, Jack W. Daniels, Pilar E. Garcia, Andrew D. Hansen, Brian Landau, Ezra M. Mauer, Natalie A. McCullough, Kurt D. Schwehr and Benjamin E. Surpless. K. Schwehr, "Mars Surface Science," "Precursor Rover Mission Options," "Exploration Vehicle Science Equipment," and "Autonomous Rovers and Virtual Environments," 1993 Stanford International Mars Mission, Ed. Bruce Lusignan, Stanford University, Dept. of Engineering. Kurt Schwehr, "Analysis of Photometric Data from a Robotic Telescope," NASA Ames Contractor Report, 11/91. Linda Garcia and Kurt Schwehr, "Proposal to the Philippine Government for the Widespread Use of Ethanol as an Automotive Fuel," Sierra Club International Committee, 6/91. Kurt Schwehr, "Background Study of Static Charging of Martian Soil," NASA Ames Contractor Report, 9/90. POSTERS: 12/11 - Schwehr, K., Foulkes, J. A., Lorenzini, D., Kanawati, M., Global Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) from Space Based AIS Ship Tracking, Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA., Dec. 2011. 12/09 - Schwehr, K., Brennan, R., Sellars, J., Smith, S., Discovery of Marine Datasets and Geospatial Metadata Visualization, Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA. Dec, 2009. 12/08 - Schwehr, Andres, Craig, Deen, De Jong, Fortino, Gorjian, Kuramura, Lemmon, Levoe, Leung, Lutz, Ollerenshaw, Smith, Stetson, Suzuki, and the Phoenix Science Team, Visualizing the Operations of the Phoenix Mars Lander, Fall AGU, San Francisco, CA, Dec 18, 2008. 05/08 - Monahan, D. Schwehr, K., Wigley, R., Tinmouth, N., Goncalves, D., Jinidasa, P., Uddin, J., Ito, K., Gebco Visual Library, Proof of Concept, GEBCO Annual Meeting, Tokyo, Japan, May 2008. 12/07 - AGU, Google Earth Visualizations of the Marine Automatic Identification System (AIS): Monitoring Ship Traffic in National Marine Sanctuaries. 05/05 - AGU, New Orleans. Paleomagnetic Fabrics Session co-chair. 05/05 - "Slumps and sediment deformation: AMS of the Gaviota and Goleta Slides," AGU, New Orleans. Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe. 12/04 - "The Whole AMS Matrix: Using the Owens Lake, Ardath Slump and Gaviota Slide to explore classification of ellipsoid shapes," AGU, San Francisco. Schwehr, Driscoll, Lee, Rosenbaum, Tauxe. 12/03 - "Exploration of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility Comparison with the Gaviota Slide", AGU, San Francisco, CA. Abstract #8437. 09/03 - "Continued Exploration of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility," Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe, IEEE Oceans 2003, San Diego, Abstract #999. 05/03 - "Mars research at SIO," to the San Diego Science Writers at SIO, Kurt Schwehr and Davis Thomsen. 04/03 - "Deciphering the origin of the Humboldt Slide using Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility," Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe, EGS-AGU-EUG Joint Assembly, Nice, France, EAE03-A-12756. COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP: 2012 IOOS DMAC 2010 CCOM Curriculum Development 2007-2010 RTCM SC121 Expanded use of AIS within VTS Working Group 2002-2005 SIO Computer Committee 2001-2002 Students At Scripps rep for Geological Sciences Curricular Group GRANTS, PROPOSALS AND AGREEMENTS: 11-15 - NOAA Joint Hydrographic Center, NA10NOS4000073. Funded. 2012 - JPL Mars Science Laboratory - Solar System Visualization group. (tentative) 10-11 - UNH ADVANCE Collaborative Scholarship Advancement Award: Visualizing Global and Regional Geophsyical Processings - In the Classroom, In the Lab, and In the Field, Co-I Margaret Boettcher, Co-I Kurt Schwehr. Funded. 2010 - Environmental Response Management Application additions to support the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Accepted and work completed. Declined funding due to lifetime non-disclosure agreement. 07-09 - Right whale AIS Project (RAP) - Cornell University and Excellerate. Funded. 07-08 - JPL Phoenix Mars Lander / Solar System Visualization 05-10 - NOAA grant for the Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, NA0NOS4001153. 2004 - BP/SIO: Technologies to image and characterize the seafloor and subseafloor. Professors Driscoll, Orcutt, Kent, Babcock, Brown, and Constable. 04-05 - NSF proposal for the Eel River Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility. PI Lisa Tauxe, Co-PI Neal Driscoll. NSF Grant OCE 0425919 11/01 - SGER: Anisotropy of magnetic susceptibility: An approach to detect post depostional deformation. UCSD #221127. Accepted by by NSF OCE. PI Neal Driscoll, Co-PI Lisa Tauxe. Co-funded by NSF (several different funds) and ONR. Work performed by K. Schwehr. 09/99 - Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for NASA Ames Support for MVACS, named as a principle. 03/99 - Onboard Data Reduction Using Computer Vision Techniques, NASA Principle Investigator, Eric Zbinden; Co-Investigators: Keith Nishihara and Kurt Schwehr. Cross Enterprise Technology Development Program: Surface Systems Area, 632-07. 03/99 - Visual Data Manager, NASA Ames Research Center, Autonomy and Robotics Area. Principle Investigator: Laurent Nguyen; Co-Investigators: Eric Zbinden, Charles Neveu, Kurt Schwehr. Cross Enterprise Technology Development Program: Surface Systems Area, 632-07. 03/99 - Photorealistic Virtual Reality Terrain Modeling, NASA Ames Research Center, Autonomy and Robotics Area. Principle Investigator: Eric Zbinden; Co-Investigators: Keith Nishihara, Scott Thayer, Kurt Schwehr, Laurent Nguyen. Cross Enterprise Technology Development Program: Surface Systems Area, 632-07. 04/99 - EventScope: A 3D, Networked Robotic Learning Environment, to NASA JSC's Learners RFP. Principle Investigator: Bryan Rogers, Co-Investigator: William Whittaker. 3D Visualization, Programming: Kurt Schwehr. I was a co-writer. Accepted and funded. 03/99 - Robotic Exploration and Biological Sampling of Geothermal Vents, to NASA's Life in Extreme Environments (LExEn). Principle Investigator: Michael Domach; Co-Investigators: Dimitrious Apostolopoulos, Edwin Minkley, William Whittaker. I started, lead, edited, and designed the proposal. Rejected. CMU's Field Robotic Center has resubmitted revised proposals twice since I left. Concept incorporated in the the funded and completed DepthX project. 09/96 - Positioning for Robotic Systems, Joint proposal between Stanford ARL, CMU FRC, and NASA Ames IMG to the NASA TeleRobotic Intercenter Working Group (TRIWG). 3 year research program for pseudolites, landmark based navigation, and visual servoing. Technical writer. Accepted and funded. $3M COURSEWORK AT SCRIPPS INST OF OCEANOGRAPHY, UCSD: Igneous Petrogenesis, Tectonics, Reading on Subduction Thrusting, California Geology, Continental Rifting, Intro to Seismology, Differential Equations, Marine Geophysics, Research - Paleomagnetism to Study Slumping, Partial Differential Equations/Boundary Value Problems, Geodynamics, Deep Sea Sedimentation, Elements of Complex Analysis, Geophysical Data Anlysis, audited Chirp Mapping of the Rose Canyon Fault, audited Planetary Processes Seminar, Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, ExxonMobile Basin Analysis short course. COURSWORK AT CMU Introduction to Mobile Robotics; Statistics and Probability. UCSC EXTENSION CLASSES: Object Oriented Analysis (OOA); Object Oriented Design (OOD). GRAD CS/ENGINEERING COURSEWORK AT STANFORD: Space Systems Engineering; Computer Graphics, Math Foundations; Math for Robotics and Vision; Computer Graphics; Computer Architecture; Robotics Seminar. UGRAD CS/ENGINEERING COURSEWORK AT STANFORD: Logic & Automated Reasoning; Mainframe Consulting; Concurrent programming; Computer Organization; Compilers; X Windows System Prog.; Matrix theory; Programming Paradigms; Computer Systems & Assembly Language; Intro to Computer Science; Programming Abstractions, Intro to Mechanical Engineering; Intro to Electronics; Linear Algebra. GEOLOGY COURSEWORK AT STANFORD: Intro to Geochemistry; The Oceans; Planetary Exploration; GIS Applications; Igneous Petrology; Field Trip to Death Valley; Special Problems in Geological & Env. Sci.; Earth Materials; Geology Seminar; Advance Field Geology; Stratigraphic Geology; Earth History; Structural Geology; Intro to Sedimentary Geology; Chemical Principles; 3 quarters of Physics; 4 quarters of Calculus; Interpreting the Earth; Astronomy Lab, 2 quarters Biology. STUDENTS: * 2012-2014 Dandan Miao, MS, Ocean Engineering, UNH, Generalization of vector cartographic data." Committee member. http://ccom.unh.edu/sites/default/files/publications/dandan_miao_thesis.pdf * 2010 Daniel Pineo, PhD, Computer Science, UNH, "The Application of Computational Modeling of Perception to Data Visualization." Committee member. http://www.cs.unh.edu/sites/web.cs.unh.edu/files/PineoDissertation.pdf INTERNS: * Camille Cobb. 2013 and 2014 at Google. INFORMAL ADVISING: If you are a student who considers me to have advised you during your degree work, let me know that you would be okay with me listing you here. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Winter 2017 - Stanford - EARTH 1B: Know Your Planet: Big Earth. Taught 1 lecture. https://goo.gl/XivnC1 Summer 2013 - Google - Google Teachers Institute. Taught 1 lecture, TA'ed 2. Fall 2012 - UNH ESCI - Research Tools via Google Hangout. Taught 2 lectures. Spring 2012 - USCG SIO 135/236 - Remote Sensing for David Sandwell. Google Oceans lecture. Fall 2011 - ESCI 895 - Research Tools. Rebuilding the entire course http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/Classes/2011/esci895-researchtools/ Fall 2011 - ESCI 759/895 - Geological Oceanography, 4 lectures for Jim Gardner/Larry Mayer Spring 2011 - ESCI 734/834 - Geophysics. Two weeks of gravity, electrical, and magnetics techniques. Fall 2010 - ESCI 401 - Redoing two labs with Margaret Boettcher and taught 3 classes. Spring 2009 - ESCI 896 - Bathymetric Mapping / Spatial Analysis. 2 lectures. Fall-2010: Research Tools. 1 class on MediaWiki and the CCOM wiki. Fall-2009: Assisted teaching small portions of Jonathan B.'s MB Nuts and Bolts seminar. C++ and Python parsing of binary multibeam data Spring-2009: 2 Lectures of Spatial Analysis at CCOM. Fall-2009: 1 Lecture for Research Tools for Dave Monahan at CCOM. Fall-2008: 2 Lectures of GeoOcean for Gardner and Mayer at CCOM. Fall-2008: 4 Lectures of Research Tools for Dave Monahan at CCOM. Sep-2007: Taught the first three weeks of Colin Ware's class. "Google Earth KML construction and visualization" Apr-2007: Python tutorials. CCOM. Jan-2007: Introduction to Python on Windows. 3 Hours at CCOM. Nov-2006: Taught 1 lecture of Colin Ware's class: "Visualization: A geologist's perspective" Oct-2006: Introduction to Python on the Mac. 3 Hours at CCOM. Oct-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth130 (Geodynamic/Terrestrial Planets) - "Mars Exploration Rovers," for C. Johnson May-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth110 (GIS) - "GIS for MER," For P. Selkin Apr-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth001 (The Planets) - "Mars Exploration Rovers," For C. Johnson 7-9/2003: Taught short course on scientific visualization at SIO. Jul-2003: Taught 1/2 day of a UCSD Extension Class for K-12 teachers. Covered geology, biology, and beach processes of Torrey Pines State Park. Feb-2002: Taught 1 lecture of Erth010 entitle "Sedimentary Rocks of San Diego," for L. Tauxe. 03/2002: Certified UCSD TA TA'ed the following classes: Erth001 - UCSD - The Planets. (Spring `04) Erth001 - UCSD - The Planets. (Spring `03) Erth010 - UCSD - The Earth. (`02) SHIP TIME: 06/15 - Hog Heaven - 1 day filming off Sausalito, CA. 01/10 - LNG ship Explorer - 1 day off Boston. 09/09 - R/V Langseth - 4 days at dock in Astoria, OR. Non-functioning multibeam. 05/09 - R/V Cocheco - 1 day to Isle of Shoals for Tide 04/09 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - towing practice 10/08 - R/V Auk - 1 day SBNMS AIS testing 08/08 - R/V Auk - 1 day Boston Harbor GeoCoastPilot 03/08 - R/V Auk - 1 day SBNMS AIS testing 10/07 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - 1 day off New Castle - Shallow Water 08 09/07 - R/V Cocheco - 1 day acoustics tests off Portsmouth USCG station 06/07 - R/V Cocheco - 1 day out to the Isle of Shoals and Fish Cages 11/06 - R/V Roger Revelle - 7 days Santa Barbara Basin, CA 10/06 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - 1 day in Portsmouth Harbor, NH 09/06 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - 1 day in Portsmouth Harbor, NH 08/04 - R/V Sproul - 8 days in the Santa Barbara Basin - BPSIO 09/03 - R/V Sproul - 4 days off of San Diego and Orange Counties 12/02 - RVIB Palmer - 1 month from New Zealand to McMurdo - NBP0209 09/02 - R/V Sproul - 1 day off of UCSD 11/01 - R/V T. Thompson - Chief Scientist - 9 days Humboldt, CA to Seattle, WA. TTN136B 02/01 - R/V Sproul - 1 day near San Diego 09/95 - NASA/MBARI Converted house boat. 2 weeks on Mono Lake, CA. PREFERRED PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS: Preferred Languages: Python, C++, GNU Make, Bash, SQL, XML, Emacs Preferred OSes: Mac OSX, Linux SOFTWARE PUBLICLY RELEASED: https://github.com/schwehr/ http://depsy.org/person/342767 2015-6 - gdal 2011 - nmeadec - Pure python NMEA decoder library using regular expressions. 2010 - libais - C++ AIS decode library with a Python interface 2009 - healy-py - Regular expression library for USCGC Healy NMEA reports. 2009 - simplesegy-py - Validate segy data and provide metadata 2006 - noaadata-py - AIS XML definitions to Python Codecs & NOAA tide levels 2006 - genargs-py - XML to command line arguments for python and gengetopts 2006 - slogcxx - Simple logging class for C++ with stream like interface 2005 - seismic-py - Python software to parse SEGY seismic data and do simple processing 2004 - density - Volumetric visualization tools using Coin3D/SimVoleon 2004 - terrain - Convert various DEM grid formats (PDS, VICAR,LightWave,OBJ,etc) 2003 - xcore - Generate OpenInventor/Coin3D visualizations of Sediment Cores 200? - CLARAty - Some of my code ended up in this. http://claraty.jpl.nasa.gov/ 200? - Ames Stereo Pipeline - Eric Zbinden and I wrote the first few versions. 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