This entire week, Katy and I have been adapting a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) to be trained with our data (lots and lots of drone images of the Chalk Cliffs catchment). Yesterday evening, I set the script to run 300 epochs (which means it’s running through its training process with the data 300 times)… Read More
After days of annotating images of the debris flow site at Chalk Cliffs, I finally got to visit for myself! To beat the afternoon storms, Katy, Jess, and I got a 5 AM start, piled our packs into the Subaru, and started down to Buena Vista, Colorado. With drone and batteries in tow, we made… Read More
After weeks of building up base-level knowledge on relevant computer programs, I am finally getting a move on with my project. I wrote my first code using Python (very exciting) which opened a text file containing a list of photo names which I had compiled earlier, found the images associated with the photo names, copied… Read More
This week and the last, I have been learning and practicing the two programs that I will be interacting with throughout my project. The tutorials are a bit tedious, but being able to see my own progress in the matter of a day is HUGELY rewarding. Notable victory: Tuesday, June 18 was the day I… Read More
I kicked off the first week with my mentors (Katy and Greg) FULLY submerged in the world of geomorphology. Thanks to the RECCS program, I was able to join them at the International Conference on Debris Flow Hazards Mitigation which took place at the School of Mines campus in Golden, Colorado. For three full days,… Read More
This first week with the CIRES RECCS program has been a whirlwind of new experiences. My only hesitation going into the first day of the program was that, being a non-traditional student, I would not have much in common with the other interns in my cohort. I was wonderfully surprised. I found myself being a… Read More
