User:Agn9

My name is Aaron Newman, and I am a student at Duke University. I am studying Environmental Engineering and Cultural Anthropology and have extensive experience in environmental science and climate change science. I aspire to design energy systems, in cooperation with communities in developing countries, that would be more appropriate and thus more effective for these populations.

Grand Challenge

Manage the Nitrogen Cycle

'Dead Zones' Appear in Waters Worldwide [1], Joel Achenbach, Washington Post, updated 15 August 2008, accessed 26 August 2013

MATLAB Demonstration Review

The demonstration that I enjoyed manipulating and learning from the most was "Viewing a Penny." I found it interesting to see how a realistic image could be created by mathematical modeling, and I could analyze this process easily by walking through the script as well as altering the perspective of the image (enlargement, rotation, pan). I also was surprised by the ability of MATLAB to vary various features based on the topography of the image at different locations. Specifically, this property was demonstrated by making brightness proportional to height.