Joel Nicolow

Graduate Research Assistant

I am a PhD student at the University of Hawai‘i Mānoa where I study Computer Science


Interests: Data Science, Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Natural Sciences


Publications & Presentations

Wave driven cross shore and alongshore transport reveal more extreme projections of shoreline change in island environments
Scientific Reports

28 Mar 2025

Richelle U. Moskvichev, Anna B. Mikkelsen, Tiffany R. Anderson, Sean F. Vitousek, Joel C. Nicolow & Charles H. Fletcher. Wave driven cross shore and alongshore transport reveal more extreme projections of shoreline change in island environments. Sci Rep 15, 10794...

Shoreline Modeling Satellite Derived Shorelines
A Machine Learning Method for Detecting Fog in Mountain Trail Camera Images
Hawaii Conservation Conference

29 Jul 2024

Nicolow, J., Sadowski, P., DeLay, J., Juvik, J., T., Tseng, H., & G., Giambelluca (2024). A Machine Learning Method for Detecting Fog in Mountain Trail Camera Images. Hawai‘i Conservation Conference.

Image classification Feature engineering Machine learning Cloud forest Fog
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Determining Fog Frequency with Elevation on Mt. Kaʻala
American Association of Geographers

16 Apr 2024

DeLay, J., Nicolow, J., Sadowski, P., G., Giambelluca, T., & Tseng, H. (2024). Determining Fog Frequency with Elevation on Mt. Kaʻala. American Association of Geographes.

Image classification Feature engineering Machine learning Cloud forest Fog

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Projects

Accelerating Research in the Age of AI, 2026 2026-03-25

Poster presentation at Accelerating Research in the Age of AI: A Synergistic Workshop with Google on March 25th at the Sullivan Conference Center

Satellite-Derived Shorelines U-Net Weighted BCE loss Machine learning Computer vision

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Numpy Neural Network 2024-10-01

Neural Network Implemented in Numpy and Trained/Evaluated on MNIST

Neural network Numpy Backpropagation Machine learning MNIST

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CoastVision 2024-09-19

CoastVision is an open-source Python framework geared towards generating satellite-derived shorelines (SDS) in PlanetScope imagery.

Python Pytorch Unet Machine learning Image segmentation Satellite-derived shorelines GitHub

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Hawaiʻi Conservation Conference, 2024 2024-07-31

Poster presentation 'A Machine Learning Method for Detecting Fog in Mountain Trail Camera Images'

Fog Cloud water interception Image classification Machine learning Computer vision

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