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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Feb 15, 20202 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Feb 3, 20206 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Jan 18, 20203 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Jan 18, 20206 min read
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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,...
Gavin Tolometti
Dec 22, 20195 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Dec 1, 20198 min read
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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,...
Gavin Tolometti
Oct 31, 20194 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Oct 27, 20195 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Sep 15, 20196 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Aug 31, 20196 min read
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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,...
Gavin Tolometti
Jul 10, 20195 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Jun 12, 20195 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Jun 2, 20194 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
May 8, 20195 min read
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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)...
Gavin Tolometti
Apr 29, 20198 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Mar 30, 20192 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Mar 14, 20195 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Feb 22, 20196 min read
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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)...
Gavin Tolometti
Jan 28, 20193 min read
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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...
Gavin Tolometti
Jan 16, 20192 min read
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