Recent ucsc_graduatestudies_grs17 items

The Natural History of Red Sea Giant Clams

Wed, 31 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The Natural History of Red Sea Giant Clams

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2017

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium Award Winners, 2017

Archiving the Public University: From the Local to the Global

Tue, 30 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Archiving the Public University: From the Local to the Global

“That was our home, and it needs to be remembered”: Erasing and Reclaiming the History of the Stewart Indian School

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This conference poster highlights key aspects of my dissertation project, which focuses on the history and public representations of the Stewart Indian School in Carson City, Nevada.

Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and Internationalization of Indonesian Arts

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Experimentalism and American Gamelan: Gamelan Son of Lion and Internationalization of Indonesian Arts

Ignorant Women, Violent Men: Spousal Murder in 1930s Tianjin

Tue, 16 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Ignorant Women, Violent Men: Spousal Murder in 1930s Tianjin

Machine Learning for Ecology: Automated Invertebrate Monitoring on Large Rivers

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Machine Learning for Ecology: Automated Invertebrate Monitoring on Large Rivers

Urban landscapes impact the microbiome of the bee, Osmia lignaria

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

As a bee forages for pollen and nectar, it acquires beneficial and pathogenic microbes from flowers. In human-influenced landscapes, variation in vegetative and floral diversity may therefore influence bee-microbe interactions. This study asks how variation in the resources available to bees in urban settings influences the composition of the microbiome and infection by fungal parasites in the Blue Orchard Bee, Osmia lignaria. Bees were installed and collected in 17 urban garden field sites in along the central coast of California. At each garden we measured local vegetation using random sampling in 1x1m plots at the center of each garden. We determined landcover composition with ArcGIS. To determine if bee diversity influences microbiome composition, we measured bee diversity at each site using visual transects. At the time of bee installation, we also reared a subset of bees in sterile petri dishes as controls to determine if the environment is important for microbiome...

Multi-UAV Path Coordination Based on Uncertainty Estimation

Mon, 15 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

One of the current autonomous systems research area in civilian and military applications is finding robust methods to track a ground area of interest (AOI) or airborne toxic substance. In case that the AOI is a spreading phenomenon (e.g., a wild forest fire), it is clear that a cooperative strategy for searching and monitoring with multiple UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) is beneficial compared to one vehicle. Multi-UAV Systems have the ability to share tasks and therefore accomplish the mission objectives with greater efficiency. The main purpose of this study is to suggest an estimation approach that is carried out using statistical methods of quantized observations for multi-UAVs' path re-planning to minimize the uncertainty of the monitored area. The UAVs share their observations and estimate the disaster area periphery with associated mapping for the level of confidence. The study presents a thorough analysis of the monitoring algorithm which operates as an uncertainty-oriented...

Lessons Learned By Designing and Instructing An Undergraduate Chemistry Course

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Oral presentation slides for the 2017 UCSC Graduate Student Research Symposium.

Slides introducing my own-designed undergraduate chemistry course and what I learned from students' feedback.

Characterization of Charge Transport Networks in Polymer/Non-fullerene Solar Cells.

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Characterization of Charge Transport Networks in Polymer/Non-fullerene Solar Cells.

Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Provision through Urban Food Cultivation

Fri, 12 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Service Provision through Urban Food Cultivation

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, May 12, 2017

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Thirteenth Annual Graduate Research Symposium, Program, May 12, 2017

Five-Month Olds Detect Changes with Contextual Support

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Five-Month Olds Detect Changes with Contextual Support

DSCAM Isoforms in Single Drosophila Neurons

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

DSCAM Isoforms in Single Drosophila Neurons

Becoming a Better Man: Masculinity and Domesticity in Republican China, 1925-1937

Thu, 11 May 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Becoming a Better Man: Masculinity and Domesticity in Republican China, 1925-1937