[Not up to date!] Kurt Schwehr Resume Address: Durham, NH. EMAIL: kurt at cs.stanford.edu schwehr at ccom.unh.edu WWW: http://schwehr.org/ EDUCATION: PhD Earth Science (Geo and Geophys), 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, April 1996 - Stanford University, Stanford, Ca. With extensive masters level computer science coursework Advisors: Geology - Jonathan Stebbins Computer Science - Oussima Khatib POSITIONS: 1/06-present: Research Scientist, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, Univ. of New Hampshire. 8/00-4/06: PhD Student, Scripps Inst of Oceanography. 12/03-03/04: Software Engineer, MER flight team, JPL. 11/01: Chief Scientist, TTN136B, Eureka, CA. 1/00-6/00: CTO, Etool & Die, LA. 8/99-4/00: Computer Scientist, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames, CA. 10/98-1/00: Visiting Scientist, Field Robotics Center, CMU, PA. 5/96-10/98: Computer Scientist, Recom Technologies, NASA Ames, CA. 91-96: Consultant to USGS, SETI Institute, and NASA Ames, CA. 89-90: Associate Researcher, NASA Ames, CA. PROJECTS: 1/06-present: 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. 12/03-3/04: Software Engineer, JPL Mars Exporation 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 vizualize AMS eigen parameters. Also has a query tool for interigating 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. Implimentations 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. Viz is baselined for the Mars 01 mission. 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 geosyncronous 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. 2/97-7/97: 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. 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. 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. 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: 10/02 - Cal-IT2 fellowship. www.calit2.net 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." SELECTED TALKS/PRESENTATIONS: 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 - Acquistion 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: Some publications have my last name misspelled. When searching on GeoRef and such also try: Schwer and Schwher! See http://schwehr.org/papers/ 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: 05/05 - AGU, New Orleans. 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 Sysceptibility," Schwehr, Driscoll, Tauxe, 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: SIO Computer Committee 2002-2005 Students At Scripps rep for Geological Sciences Curricular Group 2001-2002 PAPERS BY OTHERS ABOUT MY WORK, USE MY WORK, OR REFERENCE MY WORK: PRESS ARTICLES AND SUCH. (needs to be updated... add descriptive text) http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/info/seminar/abstracts/seminar_5.html http://www.marspolarlander.com/site/credits.html D. G. Braunstein, "The Role of Hydrodynamics in the Structuring and Growth of High Temperature (>73 deg C) Siliceous Sinter at Neutral to Alkaline Hot Springs and Geysers, Yellowstone National Park," Ph.D. Dissertation, Stanford University, Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, 163 pages, 1999. Field assistant for mapping and I'm the one in the pictures wearing mosquito netting. Sharon Begley, "The Search For Life," Newsweek, p. 54-61, 06 Dec 1999. Covers the Mars Polar Lander/MVACS project. Robert Lee Hotz, "What Price Mars? NASA Failures Prompt Vow of Program Reform," Los Angeles Times, p. A1, 08 Dec 1999. Pictured among the scientists waiting for contact with the Mars Polar Lander. Michael E. Long, photos by Peter Essick, "Mars On Earth," National Geographic, Vol. 196, No. 1, p. 34-51, July 1999. Covers the expedition I participated in. "Laurels," Aviation Week & Space Technology, p. 20-2, Feb 9, 1998. Science Vol. 278, pages 1677-1848. Virtual Reality for Mars Pathfinder. Computer Graphics World, Aug 1998. Enhanced Visualization drives Mars Exploration. Aviation Week and Space Technology, 09 Feb. 1998. Virtual Reality for Mars Pathfinder. Aviation Week and Space Technology, 21 July 1997. Virtual Reality for Mars Pathfinder. "Mars Pathfinder," National Geographic, July 1997. Michael Mecham, "`Supervised Autonomy' Pays Dividends From Mars", Space Technology, Aviation Week & Space Technology, p. 70-1, August 11, 1997. Describes the Intelligent Mechanisms Group projects: Mars Pathfinder and The Nomad Atacama Trek. San Francisco, AP, "TROV searches for treasures," Mercury News, California News, p. 3B, Sunday September 10, 1995. Describes ROV expedition to Mono Lake, CA with TROV. Authors not listed (Pollard, Cooke et al?) "Rock Fracture Project, Computer Workshop Guidebook", 23 June 1995. Contains main screen shots from the Fric2D, Poly3D, and Pred2/3D interfaces that I created. Aaron J. Lopez, "Roving and probing Tahoe's depths, NASA tests high-tech probe at lake," Reno Gazette-Journal, p. 1A, 23 July, 1992. Describes exploring Lake Tahoe, CA with TROV. Matt Weiser, "Sub skirts submerged trees believed to indicate massive Tahoe drought," Tahoe Daily Tribune, p. A1, July 1992. Matt Weiser, "High-tech submarine tested in Lake Tahoe, Test step toward unlocking clues about life on Mars," Tahoe Daily Tribune, p. A1, July 1992. Lori Aratani, "NASA ices historic news conference, Scientists transmit live from Antarctica," San Jose Mercury News, p. 1B & 5B, Dec 1992 PROPOSALS AND AGREEMENTS: 2004 - BP/SIO: Technologies to image and characterize the seafloor and subseafloor. Professors Driscoll, Orcutt, Kent, Babcock, Brown, and Constable. $3M. 04-05 - NSF proposal for the Eel River Anisotropy of Magnetic Susceptibility. PI Lisa Tauxe, Co-PI Neal Driscoll. OCE 0425919 11/01 - SGER: Anisotropy of magnetic suseptibility: 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. 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. 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. TEACHING EXPERIENCE: 12-Oct-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth130 (Geodynamic/Terrestrial Planets) - "Mars Exploration Rovers," for C. Johnson 24-May-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth110 (GIS) - "GIS for MER," For P. Selkin 28-Apr-2004: Taught 1 lecture of Erth001 (The Planets) - "Mars Exploration Rovers," For C. Johnson 07-09/2003: Taught short course on scientific visualization at SIO. http://schwehr.org/VizClass (Lectures 1-4). 07/2003: Taught 1/2 day of a UCSD Extension Class for K-12 teachers. Covered geology, biology, and beach processes of Torrey Pines State Park. 13-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 - The Planets. (Spring `04) Erth001 - The Planets. (Spring `03) Erth010 - The Earth. (`02) SHIP TIME: 10/2006 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - 1 day in Portsmouth Harbor 09/2006 - R/V Coastal Surveyor - 1 day in Portsmouth Harbor 08/2004 - R/V Sproul - 8 days in the Santa Barbara Basin - BPSIO 09/2003 - R/V Sproul - 4 days off of San Diego and Orange Counties 12/2002 - RVIB Palmer - 1 month from New Zealand to McMurdo - NBP0209 09/2002 - R/V Sproul - 1 day off of UCSD 11/2001 - R/V T. Thompson - Chief Scientist - 9 days Humboldt, CA to Seattle, WA. TTN136B 02/2001 - R/V Sproul - 1 day near San Diego 09/1995 - NASA/MBARI Converted house boat. 2 weeks on Mono Lake, CA. PROGRAMMING/COMPUTER SCIENCE: Preferred Languages: C++ w/ STL, Python, GNU Make, Bash, SQL Preferred OSes: Mac OSX, Linux Languages also used: F77, perl, Lisp, various assemblies, AML, etc. OSes also used: SunOs 5.x (Solaris), VxWorks, MS-WinXX, *-BSDs OPENSOURCE SOFTWARE RELEASED: 05/03 - xcore-0.6 - http://freshmeat.net/projects/xcore 2004 - density-0.18 - http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/density FINK PACKAGES I MAINTAIN: (Endorsed as a Fink Developer) http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/maintainer.php?maintainer=Kurt%20Schwehr acoc, coin, cwp-su, density, man2html, mbsystem, nanoblogger, pdflib-py, pmag, proj, simvoleon, soqt, soxt, tclx, tksu, wkea, xtermcontrol CURRENT DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT: (This is what I currently use the most for my PhD thesis) Mac OX 10.3, fink, emacs, cvs, gcc/g++ 3.3, C++ STL, gdb, bash, GNU make, doxygen, gengetopt, help2man, Coin/OpenInventor, SoQt, nana, SimVoleon, gnuplot, pmag-1.8, xv, ImageMagick, Photoshop, Illustrator, sqlite, pydoc.