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Teaching and tweeting
It’s been a while since I’ve been a TA in the traditional sense – you know, sitting in class, running and grading labs, answering questions from inquisitive minds (or at least referring them to...
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Harmful algal bloom forecasting: Chasing toxin producers
It started with “drunk” pelicans. While studying aquatic sciences at the University of Santa Barbara, Liz Tobin noticed that there was something wrong with the fish-gulping birds. They exhibited...
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The best thing about Sharknado…
According to John, the best thing about Sharknado is that they drive around in a Landcruiser, quite a lot like this one: John’s 1987 Toyota Landcruiser If you know John at all, you know that he LOVES...
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Doodle videos, heck yeah!
My latest project is figuring out how to make a doodle video. Or a speed drawing animation. I don’t actually know what they’re called, but you’ll get the idea if you check out the videos below. I...
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Argo Floats!!
If you have ever sat there and wondered to yourself, “What are Argo Floats? And why are they the coolest things ever?” – Look no further, my friend. I have just the (science-comics) video for you....
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As some of you may know, I’ve been learning about video editing lately. For the most part, it revolves around the online introductory oceanography class I’m helping develop, but there are a couple of...
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Sea level rise in Pohnpei
I finally posted my latest video a couple of weeks ago. You can check it out here: Sea Level Rise in Pohnpei from Michelle Wray on Vimeo. This one was a lot of fun to make, and I learned a lot along...
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Tutorial: Animate your spectrogram!
A couple of people have expressed interest, so here are a little tutorial describing how I created the spectrogram animation that you can find here: http://www.michw.com/2014/02/spectrogram-animation/...
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Whales, dolphins, and seabirds, oh my!
Hi all! I’m on a ship called the R/V Ocean Starr, and we’re out on the 2014 California Current Cetacean and Ecosystem Assessment Survey, or CalCurCEAS for short. We are collecting data that will allow...
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Hydrophone arrays, FTW!
Figure 1. Photo of Amy and Emily pulling in the array at the end of the day. We do a lot of things out here on the CalCurCEAS cruise – we play cribbage, we eat cookies, we ride the stationary bicycle –...
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Guest post: Missing when you’re shooting at trouble
I am so very pleased to introduce my very first guest blogger: Emily T. Griffiths. I worked with Emily on the CalCurCEAS cruise earlier this month. We had adventures and misadventures and cookies....
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Making a comic: Whale Scout edition
I’ve been working on a little comic for WhaleScout.org. It’s taken me a while, but it’s finally done, and will be up on the Whale Scout website soon! Woo! I used the iPad app Procreate, which I’ve...
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I’m back! Maybe?
Let’s see, it looks like my last post was in November 2014. What can I say? Sometimes life gets crazy for a bit. It’s still crazy now, but I’m excited about some things that are happening. For example:...
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Adventures in javascript
After about two frenzied weeks of muddling through javascript and D3 (and html and css) Helena and I managed to wrap up what I think is a pretty neat D3 visualization of oceanographic data for the...
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Wave interference
I’m TAing a marine GIS/ocean mapping course this quarter, and will be teaching a lecture on some aspects of multibeam sonars and the data that you get from them. Which is fun since I haven’t really...
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Simple Fourier Transform demo
(Go here to access the interactive visualization: https://michellejw.github.io/FTviz/) This little project has kept me entertained over the holidays! I thought it would be useful to come up with a...
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Life after grad school
For a while there, it seemed like I was going to be a graduate student forever…then I graduated and got a job. And then I decided to go *back* to grad school (oh, Michelle…). But then, in December...
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A knife fight with a shark
A dear friend of mine has been battling cancer, and along the way she’s accumulated a fair number of scars from various surgeries. She joked that she looks like she’s been in a knife fight with a...
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Teaching statistics, one comic at a time
Have you ever noticed that it’s easier to learn something complex if you already know a bit about the topic in general? There’s a word for this: elaboration [1]. It’s the process of linking the things...
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