{"id":2557,"date":"2022-03-07T10:06:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/?post_type=news&#038;p=2557"},"modified":"2022-03-07T12:50:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T19:50:51","slug":"geoinformatics-student-begins-cave-surveys-to-model-structures-deep-within-the-grand-canyons-north-rim","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/geoinformatics-student-begins-cave-surveys-to-model-structures-deep-within-the-grand-canyons-north-rim\/","title":{"rendered":"Geoinformatics student begins cave surveys to model structures deep within the Grand Canyon\u2019s north rim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blase LaSala, a PhD student in Dr. Teki Sankey\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/a\/nau.edu\/remote-sensing-lab\/home\">Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics lab<\/a>, is collaborating with Grand Canyon National Park to quantify how water travels from sinkholes on the Kaibab Plateau to springs in the canyon. This deep aquifer, which provides water to more than 5 million visitors annually and supports hundreds of endemic species, relies on the plateau\u2019s snowpack for recharge. Quantifying snowmelt and water flow paths can inform the park about how climate change can impact groundwater resources\u00a0 and identify areas susceptible to contamination. Rather than estimating flow-path parameters, Blase is extracting them directly using lidar data and 3D models of the caves in the canyon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blase LaSala, a PhD student in Dr. Teki Sankey\u2019s Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics lab, is collaborating with Grand Canyon National Park to quantify how water travels from sinkholes on the Kaibab Plateau to springs in the canyon. This deep aquifer, which provides water to more than 5 million visitors annually and supports hundreds of endemic &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/news\/geoinformatics-student-begins-cave-surveys-to-model-structures-deep-within-the-grand-canyons-north-rim\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Geoinformatics student begins cave surveys to model structures deep within the Grand Canyon\u2019s north rim&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[],"newstags":[],"news-category":[],"class_list":["post-2557","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322.jpg",2016,1512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-768x576.jpg",525,394,true],"large":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-1024x768.jpg",525,394,true],"news_plugin_small":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-700x700.jpg",700,700,true],"team-500px":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-500x500.jpg",500,500,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-1536x1152.jpg",1536,1152,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322.jpg",2016,1512,false],"twentyseventeen-featured-image":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-2000x1200.jpg",2000,1200,true],"twentyseventeen-thumbnail-avatar":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-100x100.jpg",100,100,true],"photoswipe_thumbnails":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"photoswipe_full":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-1800x1350.jpg",1800,1350,true],"sow-carousel-default":["https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/lasala_news_0322-272x182.jpg",272,182,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"<p>Blase LaSala, a PhD student in Dr. Teki Sankey\u2019s Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics lab, is collaborating with Grand Canyon National Park to quantify how water travels from sinkholes on the Kaibab Plateau to springs in the canyon. This deep aquifer, which provides water to more than 5 million visitors annually and supports hundreds of endemic species, relies on the plateau\u2019s snowpack for recharge. Quantifying snowmelt and water flow paths can inform the park about how climate change can impact groundwater resources\u00a0 and identify areas susceptible to contamination. Rather than estimating flow-path parameters, Blase is extracting them directly using lidar data&hellip;<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Uncategorized","author_info_v2":{"name":"siccs-ecoinfo","url":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/author\/siccs-ecoinfo\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2557","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2557"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2560,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/2557\/revisions\/2560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"newstags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstags?post=2557"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ecoinfo.nau.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=2557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}