Research Blog | GavinOnTheMoon

Feb 15, 20202 min read

Houston We Have Lift Off!

Hi everyone! I wanted the write a very short blog today, just to tell you all where I am going to be next week! Last year, around...

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Scatter Plots and Math - Replicating Radar Research

Gavin Tolometti

Feb 3, 20206 min read

Scatter Plots and Math - Replicating Radar Research

I have been reading synthetic aperture radar (SAR) research papers to decide how to best interpret the quantified radar data of the...

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Gavin Tolometti

Jan 18, 20203 min read

Research Update: January 2020

Hello everyone! This is just a very short post updating you guys about my research in January 2020. I will be posting these research...

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Gavin Tolometti

Jan 18, 20206 min read

SciComm, How and Why I Got Involved

Science communication is a branch of science awareness and literacy, where these two terms typically involve encouraging scientists and...

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Love and Respect the Power of Volcanoes: The White Island Eruption

Gavin Tolometti

Dec 22, 20195 min read

Love and Respect the Power of Volcanoes: The White Island Eruption

The winter celebrations are upon on us and I do not know about you, but I am really looking forward to sitting around the Christmas tree,...

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Radar vs LiDAR: Holuhraun Lava Flow Surface Roughness

Gavin Tolometti

Dec 1, 20198 min read

Radar vs LiDAR: Holuhraun Lava Flow Surface Roughness

Hello everyone! If you remember from my last post (Radar Images and Interpreting the Data Part 1-2), I discussed the image processing I...

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Radar Images and Interpreting the Data – Part 2

Gavin Tolometti

Oct 31, 20194 min read

Radar Images and Interpreting the Data – Part 2

Let us quickly summarize what I went through in Part 1: I downloaded the radar polarized-echo products from the UAVSAR JPL website,...

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Radar Images and Interpreting the Data – Part 1

Gavin Tolometti

Oct 27, 20195 min read

Radar Images and Interpreting the Data – Part 1

When I started this blog, I attended to summarize everything into one story. However, I realized that I might have to split this into two...

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Gavin Tolometti

Sep 15, 20196 min read

Holuhraun: Wherefore Art Thou Lava Flow

Let us get into the details on why I went to Holuhraun by first talking about the research motivation. Studies on Martian lava flows have...

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Holuhraun Field Work and The Role I Played

Gavin Tolometti

Aug 31, 20196 min read

Holuhraun Field Work and The Role I Played

Hello everyone! So the summer is officially coming to an end at Western University and the undergraduate students are slowly trickling...

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Field Work: How To Stay Organized and Plan Efficiently

Gavin Tolometti

Jul 10, 20195 min read

Field Work: How To Stay Organized and Plan Efficiently

Hello everyone! It has been awhile has it not! I will say, the month of July has been crazy with lunar sample return analogue workshops,...

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Volcanic Analogues, Surface Morphology and Roughness of Lava Flows: An Open Discussion

Gavin Tolometti

Jun 12, 20195 min read

Volcanic Analogues, Surface Morphology and Roughness of Lava Flows: An Open Discussion

Hello everyone, I have had this thought in my head for a while and after sitting in the lab writing out sample plans, reading over...

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Gavin Tolometti

Jun 2, 20194 min read

Issues with LRO WAC Mosaicing

Help from LRO WAC Mosaic Processing Hello everyone, it has definitely been a while since I have posted. I was taking a Lunar Geology...

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Gavin Tolometti

May 8, 20195 min read

Surface and Subsurface Radar Scattering

Hello everyone, It has been an emotional rollercoaster of a month. I made some good progress on my Mistastin research, which has kept me...

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CPSX Space Day 2019! The Biggest and Busiest So Far

Gavin Tolometti

Apr 29, 20198 min read

CPSX Space Day 2019! The Biggest and Busiest So Far

Hello everyone! This weeks blog is not about my research but an summary of the annual Center for Planetary Science and Exploration (CPSX)...

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Digital Image Analysis Part 2 - We Have Data!

Gavin Tolometti

Mar 30, 20192 min read

Digital Image Analysis Part 2 - We Have Data!

After hours of tracing vesicles and clasts, I have collected over 1000 particle data points from 12 impact melt rock samples from the...

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Digital Image Analysis Part 1 - The Melt of Mistastin Impact Structure

Gavin Tolometti

Mar 14, 20195 min read

Digital Image Analysis Part 1 - The Melt of Mistastin Impact Structure

Hey everyone, This week we have a research update blog, I know right it has been a while. Took some time to get back into the swing of...

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Queen's Space Conference - Inspiration for My Generation!

Gavin Tolometti

Feb 22, 20196 min read

Queen's Space Conference - Inspiration for My Generation!

Hello everyone, It has been awhile, so much for trying to release a blog every 1-2 weeks. I feel I just missed the deadline to release...

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Exploring Earth with Three Canadian Astronauts!

Gavin Tolometti

Jan 28, 20193 min read

Exploring Earth with Three Canadian Astronauts!

Exploring Earth Initiative It has been an exciting week for planetary science! On the 22nd of January, the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)...

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Bonus: Electron Probe Micro-Analysis (EPMA) - Mistastin Impact Melt

Gavin Tolometti

Jan 16, 20192 min read

Bonus: Electron Probe Micro-Analysis (EPMA) - Mistastin Impact Melt

Hey everyone! As I promised to be more consistent with my blogs, I am releasing a bonus one this week. This blog was a last minute...

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