On Friday, 28 October 2005 Wayne Lanier and I met Denis Cuff of the Contra Costa Times for a show and tell. The rendezvous was set for the LaRiviere Marsh at Don Edwards and I thought it would be a fine opportunity to take a shot at documenting the traces of wooden pipe that Don [...]

This is Cargill’s small crystallization plant on the Bay’s western shore. The flat white ground plane looks like a Midwestern plains snowscape but this is balmy Bay Area (former) marshland.

Wayne and I met San Francisco Art Institute student Gayle Laird at Bay Shore park for an early morning walk. Within a brief period of time we learned of grassroots efforts to prevent the conversion of the park into a golf course, collected a sample for the microscope at the edge of a tidal pond, [...]

I have completed the posting of a new collaborative geo-annotation map for the South Bay. This map covers a large section of the South Bay and can be zoomed in to show great detail. New in this iteration are a few interface improvements (e.g., zoom to bounding box in addition to the previous keyboard shortcuts [...]

I am working on the collaborative geo-annotation angle again. Tonight’s step forward was assembling and ‘zoomifying’ a base map of South San Francisco Bay.

I am heading down to the Don Edwards headquarters on Friday 28 Oct. in the morning. I have a 2 pm rendezvous with a reporter and photographer from the Contra Costa Times and will probably take photographs in the vicinity of Jarvis Landing. Gayle would be most welcome to join us. I will probably stay [...]

I am working a bit on adding a ’streaming video’ capacity to our Hidden Ecologies blog.
The first step was to figure out a way to convert out digital camera AVI files to the Flash FLV steaming video format. I have that licked (at least for the PC platform) using a handy. free converter called the [...]

(Picking up where Wayne left off) I too thought it would be a piece of cake getting shots of Heron’s Head Park and specifically the locations where he collected samples of micro-organisms just a few days earlier. The winds were an uncharacteristic Beaufort 0 in the early afternnon with glassy waters out in the [...]

On Monday, October 17th, Cris Benton and I visited India Basin Shoreline Park and Heron’s Head Park in San Francisco. Our purpose was to obtain aerial photographic images of the Heron’s Head Salt Marsh where I had taken samples for photomicrography. I thought it would be a “piece of cake”… Fly the [...]

During discussions related to our project I have referenced the Worldwide Panorama project as an interesting example of managing distributed authorship using a form of WWW template. The URL for Don Bain’s Worldwide Panorama project is: