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David Trilling
Flagstaff’s Team Snuffed competes for a shot at $11 million with its space-based wildfire detection project
A Flagstaff team made up of NAU and Flagstaff-based engineers, scientists and fire professionals has been selected to advance to the next stage of the Space-based Detection and Intelligence Track of the XPRIZE Wildfire competition.
Flagstaff team advances in global competition with proposal for fire-detecting satellites
The team proposes to put a ‘constellation’ of 90 small satellites into Earth orbit equipped with heat-seeking sensors built at Northern Arizona University. The network would continuously monitor wildfire-prone areas in parts of the Southwest including Flagstaff and the Pacific Northwest, Canada, and Alaska.
Astronomers, computer scientists preparing to track rare asteroid behavior
Advancing science goes hand in hand with educating scientists of the future and engaging the public. David Trilling and Mike Gowanlock have hosted two astroinformatics bootcamps introducing students from diverse backgrounds to the data science behind astronomy, including writing and testing algorithms to measure the properties of asteroids. Now they’re building small robotic telescopes that will enable students at NAU,… Read more
NAU boot camp aims to improve diversity in astronomy and computer science
Melissa Sevigny’s KNAU story about our astroinformatics boot camp run by David Trilling, affiliate faculty Mike Gowanlock, and MS student Daniel Kramer.
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The Pine Magazine of the NAU Foundation, Spring 2022 Edition, spotlights “NAU research soars with James Webb Space Telescope“