Sam Hitchman‘s project on developing a laser Doppler vibrometer (LDV) has been published in the European Journal of Physics! This paper lays out the detailed workings, parts, and the design of this device as an open-source (OS) hardware project to measure particle velocities in a non-contacting way. We hope this paper will be the starting point for OSLDVs to be built, used, and improved by researchers around the world!
Month: March 2015
Prabhat Shrestha has embarked on a new adventure with the Schlumberger Gould Research, in Cambridge (UK), after handing in his MSc thesis on microseismic event relocation. It has been a great privilege to have Prabhat in our group. We are proud of all he has accomplished and wish him all the best in England!
Prabhat (right) and Kasper on his last day in Auckland!
This (kiwi) Summer, we were lucky enough to have Evan Rust from Boise join the PALs. Evan designed and developed a scanning system for our lasers, and implemented this into our data acquisition system, based on the PLACE open-source acquisition software suite. This ends a year-long work/holiday programme for Evan, and we wish him safe travels on his way back to the US!
Evan (left) and the omnipresent Sam Hitchman
After completing his BSc Honours degree with us on time-lapse measurements of carbonate-cemented sandstones, Jackson is starting PhD in the Geophysics Department of Stanford University. We want to congratulate another one of our students heading off to Stanford, where he will join former PALs Leighton Watson and Randi Walters.
Jackson (right) and Sam in the lab