2024 Calendar
December 2024
December 15-18: IEEE BigData 2024 in Washington DC!
December 1: The Curio Cat Winter Program starts!
November 2024
November 23: SCCUR 2024 Student Conference at Cal State San Bernadino!
November 16: The Curio Cat Fall Program ends!
October 2024:
October 21-25: SIAM Mathematics of Data Science (MDS) Conference in Atlanta, Georgia!
October 11-13: MIT URTC in Cambridge, Massachusetts!
October 11-12: Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) will arrive!! And our photographer will be there to try and capture it!!
October 5-6: NASA Space Apps Challenge 2024!! The Curio Cat Team competed and it was so fun!
September 2024
September 30- October 2: AIxSET conference in Laguna Hills, California!
September 23-26: OCEANS conference in Halifax Nova Scotia!
August 2024
August 18: The Curio Cat Fall Program starts!
August 14-16: MOPTA conference in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania!
July 2024
July 8-12: SIAM Annual Meeting in Spokane Washington!
July 1-5: IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence conference continues in Yokohama Japan!
June 2024
June 30: first day of IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence conference in Yokohama Japan!
June 10-12: SIAM Mathematics of Planet Earth conference, student presentations!
April 2024
April 8-10: NCUR student conference presentations in Long Beach, CA!
April 8: filming the total solar ECLIPSE!!
March 2024
March 17-30: Scouting the Hawk and Caterpillar swarm in the California desert! Thousands of Swainson’s Hawks descend on the wildflower blooms in search of easy caterpillar meals during superblooms so be sure to stay tuned for updates and awesome footage!
March 15-16: IEEE Southeast Con in Atlanta GA! THREE of our students will present their research!
March 5-8: SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing in Baltimore MD! TWO of our students will present their research!
February 2024
February 25: Come see us at the first annual Lunar New Year Festival in Downtown Arcadia from 11am-4pm!
January 2024
January 10-12: Another King Tide will hit the California Coast so we’ll be visiting the Elephant Seals to monitor how they handle the ordeal – stay tuned for updates!
January 3-5: attending the JMM Conference – the world’s LARGEST mathematics meeting!
2023 Calendar
December 2023
December 30: Workshop for current students: “Research Venues and How To Continue Your Research”
November 2023
November 19: AI Simulation Crash Course 2: Introduction to Physics Informed Machine Learning (tuition: $199) from 10am-4pm PST
November 18: AI Simulation Crash Course 1: 3D Math Modeling (tuition: $199) from 10am-4pm PST
November 18: students attending the Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research!
October 2023
October 13-14: film project involving the Annular Solar Eclipse around Capital Reef National Park in Utah.
October 7: attending the IEEE MIT URTC conference!
October 1-10: continuing projects across New England.
September 2023
September 26-30: filming/photography projects across New England – particularly looking for Moose and Common Loons.
September 12: abstract due date for Joint Mathematics Meeting (JMM).
August 2023
August 30-31: filming/photographing the Blue Supermoon and Saturn!
August 6-9: searching for Gold Mantled Ground Squirrels across Alberta/BC, Canada.
July 2023
July 11-17: Working on projects involving Tufted Puffins and barnacles along the Oregon Coast.
May 2023
May 26-29: Exploring the wildlife of Wyoming! Searching for migratory birds, wolves, moose, and BEARS!
May 13: The Curio Cat Conservation Team’s guided birding walk/competition for Global Big Day – the world’s biggest birding day!
April 2023
April 14-16: Curio Cat attends the IEEE Region I & II Joint Student Conference in Orono, ME – including a Drone workshop!
March 2023
March 20-29: Exploring rainforests in….Scotland?? And searching for hedgehogs and mad March hares across the Scottish Highlands! Update: we didn’t find ANY of the things we were searching for – but what we found was just as – if not more – fascinating!!
January 2023
January 20-24: Monitoring and filming the Elephant Seals battling the king tide! And trying to finally catch a live seal birth on camera!
January 4: CurioCat student to present research at the annual Joint Mathematics Meeting in Boston – the largest mathematics gathering in the world! Accompanied by CurioCat videographer Hannah!
January 1-4: Filming university tours continues in Boston
2022 Calendar
December 2022
December 28-31: Filming of university tours in Boston (Harvard campus part 2 and Boston University)
December 16-22: CurioCat’s annual animal count/monitoring across the California Coast of the Monarch Butterfly migration, Elephant Seal pupping season, and Arctic Bird Migration.
December 7: CurioCat student presenting at BDCAT with lead research guru Derek!
December 1-31: Fall Research Program ongoing and ends this month
November 2022
November 3-6: CurioCat team attends Sigma Xi IFore conference with students accepted! We also have some of our YouTube videos competing in their STEM Film Festival – wish us all luck!
November 1-30: Fall Research Program ongoing
October 2022
October 1-5: Filming project across Scotland continues for our resident videographer Hannah
October 1-31: Fall Research Program ongoing
September 2022
September 23-30: Filming for this years SPOOKY SERIES across Scotland – one of the most haunted places on the planet!!
September 1-30: Fall Research Program starts and ongoing
August 2022
August 5-9: New England filming continues – checking out a desert…in Maine?!
August 1-5: Drone Field Research course on Hurricane Island, Maine! I’ll be learning how to use our new drone to collect field research data and analyze said data – as well as spending a week on Hurricane Island which is an off-the-grid research island!
August 1-29: Session B of our Student Research Academy Summer Program ongoing
July 2022
July 28-31: film project in New England prior to start of Drone Research course in Maine; filming beach erosion sites (possibly Crane Beach, other sites TBD)
July 23-31: Session B of our Student Research Academy Summer Program ongoing
July 23: Student Research Academy Summer Program Session B begins! Click here for more info!
July 2: From 500-930pm, we will be manning our booth at the Patriotic Festival and Fireworks Show in downtown Arcadia, California so come by and see us! Click here for more info!
July 1-18: Session A of our Student Research Academy Summer Program ongoing
June 2022
June 11-30: Session A of our Student Research Academy Summer Program ongoing
June 11: Student Research Academy Summer Program Session A begins! Click here for more info!
June 1-6: filming the numerous mysteries along the Oregon coast…ghost forests, blowholes, and more! And taking The Curio Cat’s new drone for it’s first run!
May 2022
May 24: Attend lecture: From Scotland to Irvine to a Nobel Prize – Why UC Irvine Made It Possible by Nobel Prize winner Dr. David MacMillan and meet the man himself! See the article/video about our amazing experience here!
May 9-13: Hannah’s broken ankle much improved! Filming resumed with our Peafowl filming project at the Los Angeles Arboretum – it’s peacock season, and we’re hoping to catch them posing, screaming, strutting, and hatching chicks for an upcoming video!
April 2022
No active filming this month. Our one-woman film crew, Hannah, suffered a broken ankle. So this month, we will try and get caught up on some existing footage and video creation!
March 2022
March 13-17: visiting the wilds of Arcata, CA: Gateway to The Redwoods! We will explore all the wilderness of the Redwoods National Forest, as well as pay a visit to the campus of Cal Poly Humboldt – CSU’s newest polytechnic school!
February 2022
February 8-12: the Big Creatures Video Project continues with chasing crocs and gators across Everglades National Park and swimming with the gentle giants known as MANATEES!
January 2022
January 11-17: kicking off our 2022 Big Creatures Video Project with filming for Elephant Seal breeding/fighting/pupping season at multiple sites along the California coast; includes some preliminary filming for Tule Elk. Check out our exciting new Elephant Seal playlist on YouTube here!
2021 Calendar
December 2021
December 18-20: more Bison filming on Antelope Island in Utah
November 2021
November 10: application deadline for the 2022 Regeneron Science Talent Search is at 8 PM EST!
November 1: 2021 Congressional App Challenge app due
October 2021
October 1-13: filming resumes across New England for our Spooky Series; filming begins on a new series of College Campus Tours to include Middlebury, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT and more! Check out our Spooky Series playlist on YouTube here! And be sure to subscribe to stay tuned for the college campus and town tours!
September 2021
September 24: 2021 Sigma Xi Student Research Conference poster presentation abstract due; 2021 Southern California Conferences for Undergraduate Research (SCCUR) abstract due
September 1: Scholarships: the application start date for the first scholarships is today!
August 2021
August 14-27: Investigating creepy history in New England – join us as we delve into the origins of the colonies by visiting Plymouth rock, the hysteria of the Salem Witch Trials, some New England graveyards, AND petroglyphs – oh and some nature stuff too, like searching for carnivorous plants in New England BOGS! Filming continues for the upcoming Spooky Series! Be sure to check out our YouTube channel for all these fun videos here!
July 2021
July 27-31: Combing the Nevada/Utah deserts for ancient American history such as petroglyphs, ruins and pictographs!
June 2021
June 9-15: Exploring everything from acres of mounds of unknown origin to giant slugs to a shipwreck overgrown with trees. From a ghost-farm that was once staffed by mental patients to an abandoned WWII fort to be part of our Spooky Series coming in October!
June 17-19: Examining Arthropods, Snowy Egrets and sea caves in Pismo Beach! Check out our Sand Crab video here!
May 2021
May 18-24: Covering the emergence of the Periodic Cicadas in the Northeastern United States (mostly Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia) – a once in a generation event! Check out these amazing Brood X Cicadas in our Cicada playlist on YouTube here!
April 2021
April 12-21: From Birds to Bats: Exploring biodiversity in Texas. Join us as we go from mega-birding hot spots on High Island, to Austin, a city overrun with bats in the spring!
April 28-29: Second attempt to spot the elusive native SoCal fish on the seasonal Grunion Run on SoCal beaches! Check out our Grunion playlist on YouTube here!
March 2021
March 29-30: Coverage of the Grunion Run on SoCal Beaches
