Category: SoMAS

Restoring The Great Garbage Chase

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At the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, I have had the amazing opportunity to be connected to a variety of projects where my technical and multimedia experience can introduce SoMAS content to a wider audience. One of my main goals at SoMAS is to digitize our historical content and archive it online, through our…Continue Reading Restoring The Great Garbage Chase

Migrating from Picasaweb to Google Photos and Slideshows on WordPress

UPDATE 202x: Picasaweb is dead UPDATE 2017-02-09 I found a slight solution that works but who knows for how long.  If you upload your photo albums using an old version of Picasa and set the permissions to public on the album when you upload, you can use existing Flash photo album code to display an…Continue Reading Migrating from Picasaweb to Google Photos and Slideshows on WordPress

The SoMAS Website (Part 2)

This is Part 2 of my write up on the SoMAS Website.  This post discusses the changes I have implemented on the existing website created by AWP from 2011 to late 2014.   Alumni Database and People Directory Lists of our alumni were available on the SoMAS website as six different pages, organized by either…Continue Reading The SoMAS Website (Part 2)

Capturing Photospheres With a Mount

As detailed in my previous post, I am using the Google Camera App on my Samsung Galaxy S5 to create Photosphere images of the places at the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences and other parts of the Stony Brook University campus. A photosphere can be created by simply moving your phone around to the dots…Continue Reading Capturing Photospheres With a Mount

Google Apps SBU Syllabus Generator

What do you get when you combine the SBU Syllabus Template with a Google Form with some Google Apps Script? A syllabus generator that fills a template with your form responses, creates a Google Doc and emails you a PDF of your responses! The syllabus generated through this form creates the first page of the…Continue Reading Google Apps SBU Syllabus Generator