From Stem Cells to Stars

‘From Stem Cells to Stars: Poetry and Physics’ at Dublin Book Festival 2023

“जहाँ न पहुंचे रवि वहाँ पहुंचे कवि”- “jahaan na pahunche ravi vahaan pahunche kavi”- There’s a saying in Hindi: “Poets can reach where the Sun cannot reach”

The Institute of Physics Writer in Residence 2023, Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan wrote three poems inspired by our conversation including “Release”- a poem about the emotions of a remotely operated vehicle- ROV!!!

More information and the pamphlet of poems entitled “Mapping the Depths of Us” at:

https://www.chandrika.ie/iop.html

The recording of this Dublin Book Festival event can be found below:

https://lnkd.in/ggaMNuRw

OceanHackWeek project on benthic habitat mapping

I just had the wonderful opportunity to participate in #OceanHackWeek 2023 working on a project on Benthic Habitat Mapping. This project built on my existing work on integrating sediment dynamics into habitat mapping approaches utilising national seabed mapping data from the Irish seabed mapping program INFOMAR. Existing workflow was heavily dependent on ArcGIS so the goal of this project was to transfer the workflow to open source tools in QGIS/JuypterLab and making the data suitable for machine learning libraries in Python.

Please view my presentation made about the project below: https://lnkd.in/enuzGE_r with the marine themed full song at the end made by our band The Confusion Dilemma available at: https://lnkd.in/eXKmEq-M