OPEnS Lab - Environmental Sensing

Conference Posters/Talks

Undergraduate authors in bold.

2025

  • Zheleva, D., Zamora Re, M., Tomasek, A., Haagsma, M., Selker, J. S., Udell, C., and Fuentes, C. 2025. Exploration of Dendrometer Data to Infer Plant Water Stress at High Temporal Resolution. B11D-03. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Hosford, A., Udell, C., and Selker, J. S. 2025. Field-Ready, Low-Cost, Evaporation-Free Passive Isotopic Rain Collector Fabricated by Epoxy Casting. H11J-1010A. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.
  • Nguyen, D., Hockert, E., Muzaffarov, M., Vania, Z., Udell, C., and Selker, J. S. 2025. Evaporometer: A Low-Cost, Open-Source, Load-Cell-Based Device for Collecting Rainfall and Evaporation Data. H21V-1263. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.
  • Le, N., Rasmussen, L., Zamora Re, M., Zheleva, D., Van Haren, J. L. M., Selker, J. S., and Udell, C. 2025. High Precision Zero-friction Magnetic Dendrometer. H21V-1266. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.
  • Zimmer, E., Jacklyn, C., Graham, R., Thiruppathi Ahila, S., Richards, W., Johnson, A. C., Selker, J. S., and Udell, C. 2025. Open Source Arduino Weather Station; Meet WeatherChimes. H21V-1267. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.
  • Udell, C., and Selker, J. S. 2025. Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) | Advancing Open Environmental Instrumentation. H21V-1268. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Emmons, S., Hosford, A., Crocker, D., Chebrolu, A., Selker, J. S., Udell, C., and Tomasino, E. 2025. Wisp: Smoke Taint Sensor. H21V-1276. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Beslity, J., Deleeuw, J., Kizer, S., O'Neill, M., van Asselt, M., Le, N., Rasmussen, L., Udell, C., Selker, J. S., and Van Haren, J. L. M. 2025. Assessing the Impact of Evaporative Demand on Mature Cacao in a Rainforest Mesocosm Using Novel, Low-Cost Technology. H34F-04. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Nash, D., Johnson, A. C., Isaak, S., Aboudara, E., Christopherson, M., Lawnicki, X., Plescher, R., Mathews, N., Roering, J. J., Udell, C., Ord, A., Silva, L., Bell, L., Pierce, L., Prussian, K. M., Hanlon, J., Jacobs, A. B., and Foss, J. 2025. Rivers in the Sky, Landslides on the Ground: Community Science on Prince of Wales in Southeast Alaska. NH34A-04. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Moysey, S. M., Selker, J. S., Selbe, S., Stall, S., Accomazzi, A., Elhacham, E., Udell, C., Dawson, C., and Nelaev, A. 2025. Advancing Community Collaboration Across AGU Sections to Support the Advancement of Distributed Sensing Instrument, Data, and Software Standards and Practices in the Earth and Space Sciences. SE23B. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Silva, L., Bell, L., Hanlon, J., Pierce, L., Lekanof, M., Grant, J., Cash, R., Hotch, D., Trudeau, A., Hamar, E., Paddock, R. III, Weitzel, K., Refuerzo, J., Neumann, E., Patton, A., Roering, J. J., Mathews, N., Johnson, A. C., Nash, D., Rutz, J., Lempert, R., Brown, R., Wilcox, P., Grant, G. E., Fasth, B., Lanphier, K., Udell, C., Selker, J. S., Chandler, H., Plescher, R., Steratore, R., Danielson, Z., Tobey, S., and Heintz, R. 2025. Woven Earth: Attempting Co-Production of Geohazards Research with Tribal Governments in Southeast Alaska. SY31B-0630. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

  • Udell, C., Zimmer, E., Jacklyn, C., Slaght, T., Johnson, A. C., Bell, L., Tobey, S., Silva, L., Johnson, I., Narvez, J., and Selker, J. S. 2025. Designing With, Not For: Co-Producing Open Source Environmental Monitoring Systems Through Community Science and Education in Southeast Alaska. SY32A-05. In AGU Fall Meeting 2025. AGU.

 

Peer-reviewed journal articles

Undergraduate authors in bold.

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Conference posters

2024

  • Gasper, P., Udell, C., Selker, J. S. 2024. EC Sense: An Open-Source Electrical Conductivity Meter Based on the Wenner Method. H13N-1185. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Belinga, M., Prince, R., Kurniawan, H., Levi, T., Selker, J. S., and Udell, C. 2024. eDNA Sampler: A Field Programmable and Customizable Auto-sampler for eDNA. H13N-1194. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Le, N., Rasmussen, L., Elwood-Dieu, M., Zamora Re, M., Zheleva, D., Nackley, L., Selker, J. S., and Udell, C. 2024. High Precision Zero-friction Magnetic Dendrometer. H13N-1188. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Truong, B., Olsen, A., Hale-Brown, C., Walter, C., Selker, J. S., and Udell, C. 2024. LilyPad - Internet Connected Freshwater Reservoir Monitoring Device. H13N-1189. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Udell, C. and Selker, J. 2024. Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) | Advancing Open Environmental Instrumentation. H13N-1184. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Alholi, M., Synytsia, M., Tanner, S., Vaughn, V., Ensinger, A., Selker, J., Udell, C. 2024. Pied Piper Trap. H13N-1192. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Truong, B., Milford, C., Udell, C., Selker, J. 2024. Smart Rock: Low-Cost Stream Monitoring. H13N-1193. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.
  • Thiruppathi Ahila, S., Jacklyn, C., Gasper, P., Richards, W., Selker, J., Udell, C. 2024. WeatherChimes: Weather monitoring and Sonification System. H13N-1191. In AGU Fall Meeting 2024. AGU.

2023

  •  Ensinger, A., Vaughn, Vincent., and Udell, C., 2023, December. Pied Piper: An Open-Source Vibrational Camera Trap for Monitoring Activity Patterns and Population Distributions of Pest Insects. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  •  Burgos, A., Woo, W., Richards, W., Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. WeatherChimes: Weather monitoring and Sonification System. H41S-2017. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Porter, J., Moyce, C., Selvakumar, S., Williams, P., Le, N., Rasmussen, L., Amador, C., Noble, R., Sears, A., Levin, A., Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. High Precision Zero-friction Magnetic Dendrometer. H41S-2020. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Udell, C., Walter, C., and Selker, J., 2023, December. Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS) | Advancing Open Environmental Instrumentation. H41S-2021. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Milford, C., Hale-Brown, C., Truong, B., Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. Smart Rock: Low-Cost User-Friendly Stream Monitoring. H41S-2022. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Truong, B., Hale-Brown, C., Olsen, A., Walter, C., Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. LilyPad: An Internet Connected Freshwater Reservoir Monitoring Device. H41S-2023. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Prince, R., Roy, K., Belinga, M., Jesudason, N., Heisey, D., Iler, J., Kurniawan, H., Field, J., McFeeters-Krone, G.,  Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. The OPEnS POLYWAG Environmental DNA Sampling System. H41S-2024. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.
  • Vidmantas, A., Richards, W., Schenbeck, A., Goshay, I., Walter, C.,  Selker, J., and Udell, C., 2023, December. Slide Sentinel: Centimeter-level Precision Remote Landslide Detection System. H41S-2026. In AGU Fall Meeting 2023. AGU.

2022

2021

2020

  • Chu, M., Patton, A., Udell, C., Walter, C. and Selker, J.S., 2020, December. SitkaNet: A Low-Cost, Open-Source System for Landslide Monitoring and Study. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Clonch, C., Huynh, M., Goto, B., Selker, J.S., Udell, C. and Levin, A., 2020, December. Low-cost, Low-profile Dendrometer Optimized for Grapevines. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Gasper, P., Pelster, Z., Best, B., Walter, C., Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2020, December. Measuring Darcy Flux and Transient Pore Velocity: Development of a Compact Temperature, Pressure, and Electrical Conductivity Sensor. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Goto, B., Nguyen, B., Selker, J.S. and Udell, C., 2020, December. Hypnos Board: A Low-Cost All-In-One Solution for Environment Sensor Power Management, Data Storage, and Task Scheduling. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Kang, K., Kerr, A.C., Smith, M., Brady, C.G., Koontz, N., Selker, J.S. and Udell, C., 2020, December. Loom, A Simple Modular Framework for Rapid Prototyping Environmental Sensors, Actuators, and Data Collection. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Nguyen, B., Pechetratanapanit, K., Walter, C., Udell, C., Zimmermann, L.P. and Selker, J.S., 2020, December. COVID Sampler: Open-source Composite Auto-sampler Against the Pandemic. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Shumway, E., Nieri, R., Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2020, December. Autonomous Vibrational Analysis and Insect Behavioral Manipulation With Pied Piper. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.
  • Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS)| Distributed Sensing, Distributed Society. In AGU Fall Meeting 2020. AGU.

2019

  • Ebrahimi, K.K., Lunn, G.R., Hudson, B.M., Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2019. Slide Sentinel: A Fully Automated, Low-Cost Landslide Monitoring System Using Real Time Kinematics. AGUFM2019, H11H-1573.

  • Nguyen, B., Pechetratanapanit, K., Udell, C., Walter, C., Selker, J.S. and Levi, T., 2019. PolyWAG Water Acquired Genomics System: A Field Programmable and Customizable Auto-sampler for eDNA. AGUFM2019, pp.H53S-2076.

  • Stroh, A.R., Winkelman, E., Larson, L., Levintal, E., Nackley, L., Davidson, J., Selker, J.S. and Udell, C., 2019. 3D HyperSense: 1-100 meter, Low-Cost Programmable Gantry and Sensor Suites. AGUFMH53S-2091.

2018

2017

  • Alcala, J.M.L., Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2017. A High Precision $3.50 Open Source 3D Printed Rain Gauge Calibrator. 2017. AGU Fall MeetingH41J-0824
  • DeBell, T. C.; Udell, C.; Kwon, M.; Selker, J. S.; Lopez Alcala, J. M. "Design and Deployment of a General Purpose, Open Source LoRa to Wi-Fi Hub and Data Logger." Proc. AGU Fall Meeting. 2017: H41J-1576.
  • Krejci, A., Lopez Alcala, J.M., Nelke, M., Wagner, J., Udell, C., Higgins, C.W. and Selker, J.S., 2017. Development of an Open Source, Air-Deployable Weather Station. AGUFM2017, H41J-1583.
  • Kwon, M., Lopez Alcala, J.M., DeBell, T.C., Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2017. Evaporometer| A Wireless Mesh of Open-Source Rainfall/Evaporation Gauge and Sensor Suite for In Situ Near-Real-Time Environmental Data. AGUFM2017, H41J-1604.
  • Nelke, M., Selker, J.S. and Udell, C., 2017. The OPEnSampler: A Low-Cost, Low-Weight, Customizable and Modular Open Source 24-Unit Automatic Water SamplerAGUFM2017, H41J-1596.
  • Stoddard, Brett, John Selker, and Chet Udell. "Examining the Effectiveness of Commercial RFID Tags as Soil Moisture Sensors." Proc. AGU Fall Meeting. 2017.
  • Udell, C. and Selker, J.S., 2017. Openly Published Environmental Sensing (OPEnS)| Advancing Open-Source Research, Instrumentation, and Dissemination. AGUFM2017, IN44A-04.

2016

  • Selker, J.S., Good, S.P., Higgins, C.W., Sayde, C., Buskirk, B., Lopez, M., Nelke, M. and Udell, C., 2016. Recent developments from the OPEnS Lab. AGUFM2016, H34F-08.

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