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Goodbye and good luck to Lily Hwang 22 Aug 2013 | 03:18 am
After over three years of invaluable service, ecohydrologist Lily Hwang left Little River Research & Design last month to pursue a PhD in Environmental Engineering at the National Cheng Kung Universit...
Em2 and Emflume bound for Paris 13 Aug 2013 | 12:19 am
Five of us are heading to Paris in two weeks to attend the International Conference on Geomorphology, held by the International Association of Geomorphologists. We are excited to participate in a con...
Our Em3 and Emflume1 at ASEE 2013 Atlanta. 25 Jun 2013 | 07:32 am
Lily, Nathan, and I are hosting a booth at the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) meeting in Atlanta. At ASEE we move from geoscience to engineering, which are separated only by human...
Emflume1 shipping. See it at ASEE 2013 in Atlanta. 23 Jun 2013 | 12:07 am
After four years of development, we’re introducing the production model Emflume1 at ASEE in Atlanta. The Emflume1 is a revolutionary flume system. Small and portable. To teach students in engineer...
Emflume1 ready for ASEE 2013 Atlanta! 21 Jun 2013 | 05:13 am
Tomorrow we'll put first water through our Emflume1. History. Make a small, practical "2D" flume to show fluid mechanics and key processes in river management and science. Shoot video, get publishe...
Trimble's Sketchup Pro 2013 broken. Ignoring customers. Don't buy it. 20 Jun 2013 | 03:31 am
If you're considering upgrading to Sketchup Pro 2013, don't. Continuing from yesterday. It's broken by bad licensing methods. Help and support you pay for (listed for $95 in my invoice) are a joke....
Trimble's Sketchup 2013 is broken, fix it! 19 Jun 2013 | 02:22 am
Don't buy Sketchup 2013. Trimble, if you're reading this, shame on you. I paid $560 for 2013 Pro. Crashy on my iMac, on my Air, and on my Windows PC (in the "Make" form). Sketchup was (was) a wond...
"We are now in a new climate regime…" 11 Jun 2013 | 07:10 pm
Jeff Masters said it well: "If it seems like getting two 1-in-100 to 1-in-500 year floods in eleven years is a bit suspicious--well, it is. Those recurrence intervals are based on weather statistics...
Emflume design. Lawyers and architects. 3 Jun 2013 | 06:30 am
I spent my weekend checking and finalizing design details for our Emflume; we debuted a prototype at ASEE a year ago. We’ll build hundreds of them, even a tiny mistake will cost us, and our clients a...
Rally ho! River Rally on the Mississippi 2013 24 May 2013 | 11:16 pm
JM, Jim and Nathan, LRRD fabricators/prototypers, at River Rally 2013. Nathan, Jim, JM and I spent last weekend exhibiting our Em2 at the River Network's annual River Rally. We met people from all o...
