Scott Peckham's Home Page

Welcome! I am a research scientist currently working at INSTAAR (the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research). INSTAAR is part of the University of Colorado, in Boulder . I obtained by doctorate in Geophysics here in 1995 while working at CSES (the Center for the Study of Earth from Space) and CIRES (the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences). (People who live in Boulder acquire an extensive vocabulary of acronyms.) For a list of my publications, see my latest curriculum vitae.

My main research interest is in the applied mathematics of nonlinear science and its application to problems in hydrology and fluid dynamics. Most recently, this has led to an interest in nonlinear PDEs (partial differential equations) and general results for orthogonal curvilinear coordinate systems. I have a paper on a new geometric method for finding solutions to certain types of PDEs in a book by World Scientific called Geometry in Present-Day Science. Please e-mail me if you have any good references on these topics. At the moment I am looking for more info on 2D area-preserving transformations. I'm also thinking about creating a web page devoted to curvilinear coordinate systems.

Another big project that I put together in 1997 is my Tutorial Hotlist. Even though I have neglected it a bit until recently, I continue to get enthusiastic e-mail about it. It recently received a good review in the May 1999 issue of IT Recruiter Magazine. (Browse to Articles, May 1999, Online Tutorials for Techies).

One of my other major projects is a software toolkit for the analysis of digital terrain and river networks called RiverTools. RiverTools 2.4 is available from Rivix, LLC.

For those of you familiar with my earlier work on self-similar tree graphs, please note that the crosses on the Peckham shield are clearly "perfect trinary" trees. : )

If you want to learn dark secrets from my past, try this Flash to the Past.

If you're interested in the Chinese Zodiac, you may want to read The Dragon's Tale.

Or, if you'd like to be the first one on your block (assuming you live in the USA) to hear about a hot, new singer/songwriter, check out The First Ronnie Taheny Page in the USA!.

Things to Do With Your Browser When You're Bored

Hotlists and Other Stuff I Actually Made

In my travels on the Internet I have seen many wondrous things. Here are some "hotlists" and other resources that I have put together on various topics. (Sorted roughly by coolness, (or coolly by roughness?) and sporadically under construction.

Stuff I Actually Didn't Make

Here are some impressive hotlists that I have found ready-made elsewhere.

Image Gallery

And here are some images for your visual entertainment...

Colleagues' Home Pages

"Aim at nothing and you shall surely hit it ...''

E-mail address: Scott.Peckham@Colorado.edu
URL: http://cires.colorado.edu/people/peckham.scott/home.html
Curriculum vitae (including a list of publications)