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Contact Information

Address: 600 Queen St. #3904, Honolulu, HI 96813

Cell: 808-741-7824

GoogleVoice: 760-621-0477

Email: kim@hawaii.edu

Skype: kimbridges

Digital Photography

Workshop Notes

People, Plants and Photos Workshop (July 2011, BSA/SEB meeting, St Louis, MO)

Photo Sites

Smugmug: kimbridges.smugmug.com (Highlights below)

American White Pelicans
California Redwoods
2011 King Kamehameha Day Parade
Plumeria 2011
Fireworks: 2010 4th of July & 2011 New Years

Picasa: Picasa Site (Highlights below)

Ranunculus (Flower Fields 2010) & Ranunculus (Flower Fields 2009)
Orchids (Honolulu Orchid Society)
Epiphyllum (San Diego Wild Animal Park)
Roses (All-America Rose Selections, Flower Fields @ Carlsbad, CA)
Plumeria (2005, 2004, 2002)
Eagles (Part 1) & Eagles (Part 2)
Big Cats (National Zoo, Washington, DC), Lions (National Zoo) & Big Cats (Thailand)
Alaska Bears

Information About Photography

Hotspot My Working Notes: My Photography link for access to information about photography (from my perspective). This includes still, panoramic, HDR, confocal photography, tilt-shift, as well as other specialized techniques. It also lists my hardware.

Workshop: People, Plants and Photos Workshop (July 2011, BSA/SEB meeting, St Louis, MO). This link has a lot of photography information.

Quadrocopters: My Quadrocopter working notes (and lots of links to videos) on the use of quadrocopters (and related technologies) for unmanned aerial photography platforms.

Courses, Workshops & On-Line Learning

People, Plants and Photos Workshop (2011 BSA/SEB meeting)
Conservation Ethnobiology Field School (2012 Kaua`i)

Legasy Links

BOT 440 (University of Hawai`i Course: Advanced Ethnobotany)
BOT 640 (University of Hawai`i Course: Quantitative Ethnobotany)
Google Earth Workshop (2008 SEB workshop)

Research Projects

Research Hotspot: The Open Science Network for Ethnobiology (OSN)

OSN Development Links

The OSN project is bringing links to curriculum materials for ethnobiology courses (broadly defined) into a single site. As the site grows, it will provide a wealth of information that will help instructors develop and assess their courses. The resources include modules which have been peer reviewed.

Text-to-Speech (TTS)
HVNP Field Guide
PABITRA
Inflections (DNA music)
Other Research Projects
The Changing Mekong (inactive)
Center for Dispersed Disciplines (inactive)
Ethnobotany: Segues to Science (inactive)

Links to My Academic Pages

General Planning

Current 2012 Calendar
Past Calendar: 2011

Past Calendar: 2010

Past Calendar: 2009

Travel Aids

HNL-LAX-LSM logistics

Travel Hotspot: The TwoRed Expeditions

TwoRed, our 2010 Smart Passion.

The new look (June 2011) with wider tires on new rims.

We take trips in our Smart car. Long trips. While most people think of Smart cars as short-trip urban vehicles, we're using our Smart to roam the U.S. Virtually every trip has been part of an expedition.

We equipped our Smart, which we call "TwoRed," with gear that makes it easier, safer and more enjoyable to be on the open highway; things like cruise control, cold-air intake, and daytime LED running lights. We are also packing equipment that will help us survive a flat tire (as some of our travel is outside of areas in which there are Smart dealers). While we've had Google-based navigation on board since the start, we recently upgraded the system to include a Motorola Xoom tablet which is mounted in front of the radio. Perhaps the biggest change are the new wider tires (and "fancy" rims). All this extra rubber has really helped by providing increased stability in windy conditions.

Past Expeditions

2010: Coast-to-Coast trip (Sept - November: 10,000 miles)

2011: SoCal Desert (600 miles)

2011: SoCal to NoCal and back (aka "Redwoods Trip") (May: 1800 miles)

2011: St. Louis and back (June 24 to July 19: 4,800 miles)

2011: Yellowstone

Current Stats (December 29, 2011)

Total Miles: 21,187
Total States Visited: 32
Total Mileage: 39 mpg (last 5 fill-ups average: 40.2)[June 2011]

You can track us when we are on the road. We welcome comments and suggestions! You may need to refresh the screen to capture the progress.

TwoRed's Location

Stuff on the Side

Ships (monitoring Honolulu Harbor; Station 475 @ www.marinetraffic.com)

Music Collection (mostly classical; an experiment with the cloud)

Nancy's Five "Peas" for a Long Life:
People, Pets, Plants, Performance, Passion (Perfection)