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“On This Solid
Rock I Stand”
Russell Taylor
Photograph
Atlantic Puffins spend most of their lives in
the water, resorting to land only during the summer nesting season. We
took a 'puffin tour' to Machias Seal Island and spent all morning watching
the puffins, nicknamed "Sea Parrots", as they climbed this
rock, chattered
to each other, and tucked their beaks in for a relaxing nap.
Russell Taylor is a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science,
Physics & Astronomy, and Applied & Materials Sciences at the
University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is the co-director of the UNC NIH National
Research Resource for Computer Integrated Systems for Microscopy and
Manipulation. His research interests include Scientific Visualization,
Distributed Virtual Worlds, Haptic Display, and Interactive 3D Computer
Graphics. All of these come together in his role as the director of the
computer science team in the UNC Nanoscale Science Research Group, which
is
a team of Physicists, Chemists, Gene Therapists, Biologists, Library
Scientists, Perceptual Psychologists, and Computer Scientists working
together to develop improved interfaces for scanned-probe and other
microscopes. These tools enable scientists to see, touch and manipulate
nanometer-scale objects like viruses and carbon nanotubes, either from
within the laboratory or across a computer network.
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