We let the camera run at 1 frame per minute for 12 months.
I would download the images and archive them and do a quick run through to delete all the nighttime images and save them in folders organized by day.
Zandra would head up there every 10 days and swap out the card and check to see that it was running. This was a very remote location and she had to be driven to the site by one of the guys. Every 10 days my daughter ‘Zandra’ would drive the 2 hour round trip to change out the battery and memory card with the help of the vineyard workers. It was set to take an exposure every minute day and night. Mind you this took about 6 weeks to accomplish and numerous visits to the site.įinally we had the GoPro Hero 3 up and running by March 1. The solar panel he used wasn’t big enough, so in the end we would head up to the site every 10 days to change the memory card (64 gigabyte) and bring a freshly charged car battery to swap out.
The solar kit was not up to the task and the shop manager figured we should rig a car battery to power the go pro and set up a solar panel to have it run continuously. They sold me a solar panel kit to run the GoPro. It was mounted in there really tight so that the camera never moved during the entire year. The GoPro was mounted on this metal platform which had sliding openers so we could get to the controls on the right side and swap out memory cards. I didn’t know GoPro’s could make timelapses, so I went off to the camera store and after an hour of discussion with them determined which GoPro to get and how many memory cards we would need for the project. They cemented a pole in the ground with a platform on top for the camera and a shield over the camera to prevent the hot rays of the sun and the rain from hitting the camera. In the meantime, my client and I went up to scout the perfect place for a camera and the vineyard shop manager figured out how we could mount the camera. I wish I had read more about this camera, because after setting it up and capturing images for a week, I realized it was absolutely not up to the task. Then I found a timelapse camera online that ran on 2 AA batteries and convinced my client to buy it for $500. Finally, President Conant must continue his search for a Dean for the Law School, a post vacant since the resignation of Dean Roscoe Pound last year.We discussed building a small shed to house a regular camera with an interval timer to create an exposure every minute, but decided the elements would be too rough on a standard DSLR, not to mention the cost of the camera and lens was a bit high. The curriculum will be more closely related to that of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and general examinations will largely supplant course credits in the pursuit of the degree. This year also the Graduate School of Education has been reorganized. This year the new School of Public Administration, made possible by the gift of $2,000,000 from Lucius N. Three main problems of administration in the Graduate Schools await President Conant on his return from England. There will be 21 Conant Fellows as upperclassmen, each receiving a maximum of $1200, and bringing the total number of these scholarship holders up to 39. The undergraduate body will receive an increase of only 18 Conant Prize Scholars with the Class of '40. Professor Gilson who is probably the foremost Catholic Philosopher in the world today, and who is a great authority on Descartes, and the whole Cartesian school, will be William James Lecturer on Philosophy for the first half-year. Sir Frederick is a British Nobel Prize winner, and a distinguished pioneer in vitamin research, who will be a lecturer at the Medial School. Most of these men are already in Cambridge, having attended the Tercentenary symposia and the Celebration.Īmong the most prominent of the visiting professors are Sir Frederick G. Beside those men receiving permanent appointments, there are many distinguished scholars who have been borrowed from other universities either for a single semester or for the whole academic year.
A grand total of some 8,000 students is expected, slightly higher than last year's figure of 7,780.ĭuring the summer, 86 new members have been added to the faculty. Seven thousand people will be added to the population of Cambridge today, as the grand influx of upperclassmen and graduate students swarms into Memorial Hall before the 5 o'clock deadline.