Interested in joining us or collaborating?

To get involved with research and development, contact our program directors and come to our general meetings, which are listed on our Calendar of Events. If you’re interested in a particular project, contact one of the project leaders listed below to learn more.

If you want to collaborate with us, please see below for the appropriate contact person for your application.

General Information

Ryan Kastner, Co-Director: kastner@ucsd.edu

Curt Schurgers, Co-Director: cschurgers@ucsd.edu

Project Contacts

Environmental Monitoring Projects

Smartfin: Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Mangrove Monitoring: Jason Yang and Zach Lawrence (jay026@ucsd.edu, zclawrence@ucsd.edu)

Floods of Lubra: Ronan Wallace (rwallace@macalester.edu)

Coral Tile: Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Wildlife Monitoring Projects

Radio Collar Tracker: Tyler Flar (tflar@ucsd.edu)

Harpy Eagles: Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Baboons on the Move: Tyler Flar and Chris Crutchfield (tflar@ucsd.edu, ccrutchf@ucsd.edu)

Burrowing Owl Classification/Aye Aye Sleep Monitoring: Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Remote Trap Monitoring: Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Acoustic Species Identification: Sean Perry and Samantha Prestrelski (shperry@ucsd.edu, sprestrelski@ucsd.edu)

FishSense: Christopher Crutchfield, Kyle Hu, and Avik Ghosh (ccrutchf@ucsd.edu, kshu@ucsd.edu, a8ghosh@ucsd.edu)

Aerial Mapping

Structure from Motion Applications (General): Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Archaeology Projects

Maya Archaeology (Aerial Surveys): Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Maya Archaeology (Tunnel Mapping): Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Maya Archaeology (VR): Nathan Hui (nthui@ucsd.edu)

Other Information

For all other inquiries, contact our staff engineer Nathan Hui at nthui@ucsd.edu.

For the project Slack, make an account on the ucsde4e.slack.com