This research done by Jeff Tilley of the UAF Geological Institute. Active soil depth for an area from North of Alaska's Brooks range to the Arctic ocean. The active range is the area of melt above the permafrost. It is the locale of biological and physical processes and affects the growth of plants and, in turn, impacts migration and survival of animals in the tundra environment. As this thin layer is quite sensitive to damage, it is of interest to the army, oil industry, and other groups concerned with the use and management of natural resources in the Arctic.
Most people can imagine using a computer program to produce art.
This is just the kind of technology that Chris Hartman, a UAF Computer Science faculty member, and Bill Brody, head of UAF's Art Department, are striving for. As an open hand swipes across a line on a 3D sketch, the line will widen. This would mean the ability for an artist to add to a rock sculpture, when in reality an artist can only subtract rock to create a sculpture. The researchers use to video capture human gestures which are used to drive the program. But some information is still based on how the user moves the wand and where the user looks on the screen.