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
Albert Lin, Co-Director: a5lin@ucsd.edu
Project Contacts
Aerial Mapping
Structure from Motion Applications (General): Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Archaeology Projects
Maya Archaeology (Aerial Surveys): Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Maya Archaeology (Tunnel Mapping): Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Maya Archaeology (VR): Giovanni Vindiola (gvindiol@ucsd.edu)
Environmental Monitoring Projects
Smartfin: Nicholas Rowlett (nrowlett@ucsd.edu)
Mangrove Monitoring: Dillon Hicks (sdhicks@ucsd.edu)
Floods of Lubrak: Ronan Wallace (rwallace@macalester.edu)
Coral Tile: Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Wildlife Monitoring Projects
Radio Collar Tracker: Mia Lucio (mlucio@ucsd.edu)
Harpy Eagles: Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Baboons on the Move: Chris Crutchfield (ccrutchf@eng.ucsd.edu)
Burrowing Owl Classification/Aye Aye Sleep Monitoring: Beilei He (behe@ucsd.edu) and Parth Patel (p7patel@ucsd.edu)
Remote Trap Monitoring: Nathan Hui (nthui@eng.ucsd.edu)
Acoustic Species Identification: Jacob Ayers (jgayers@ucsd.edu)
FishSense: Viva Suresh (visuresh@ucsd.edu)
Other Information
For all other inquiries, contact our staff engineer Nathan Hui at nthui@eng.ucsd.edu.
For the project Slack, make an account on the ucsde4e.slack.com