Always interested in harnessing emerging technology for research and in the classroom, Chris has had different positions at OSU that have pushed technology usage at the University.  Currently he leads teams in the College of Engineering Technology services that support classroom and lab technology, software, instructional design, accessibility, and emerging technologies.  He has also helped the Center for Aviation Studies develop and teach multiple courses on foundations of UAS and developed the beginnings of the Drone Lab that is supporting research across the University.  

Chris is very active nationally in the field of UAS and emerging technologies and has presented at numerous conferences on topics ranging from the UAS technology, virtual reality, imaging technologies, GIS, semantic web, and makerspaces. He has also served as the staff photographer of the Greek-American Excavations at Kenchreai through Harvard University from 2015-2017, 2023-2024 as well as the Vanderbilt Excavations at Caesarea, Israel in 2019. Chris has a BA in Photography (2004) from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and an MA in Art History from the University of Cincinnati (2007).         

PUBLICATIONS

Xu, Ningli^, Debao Huang^, Shuang Song^, Xiao Ling^, Chris Strasbaugh, Alper Yilmaz, Halil Sezen, and Rongjun Qin. A volumetric change detection framework using UAV oblique photogrammetry–a case study of ultra-high-resolution monitoring of progressive building collapse. International Journal of Digital Earth (2021): 1-16.

Chris Strasbaugh. “How We Harnessed the Potential of UAV Imagery in the Classroom through VR and Other Technologies”, EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation & the Arts. Proceedings of a conference held in London 8th-11th July. BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, 2019. BCS: The Chartered Institute for IT, in the series: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC) Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2019).

PRESENTATIONS

Presenter: “Environmental Monitoring with UAS” - Wingtra Webinar Series - 2024

Moderator: Higher Ed Roundtable – Commercial UAV – 2023, Las Vegas

Presenter: “THE NEXT GENERATION OF PRECISION AGRICULTURE” - Wingtra Webinar Series – AUVSI Xponential 2023, Denver

Organizer and Moderator: “The Crucial Pipeline: Building Sustainable Talent Pipelines with Academic/Industry Partnership” – AUVSI Xponential 2023, Denver

Presenter: “High-accuracy multispectral data in research” - Wingtra Webinar Series - 2022

Moderator: Higher Ed Roundtable – Commercial UAV – 2022, Las Vegas

Presenter: “Taming the Drone Data Dragon”, Commercial UAV – 2021, Las Vegas

Presenter: “Using Drones for Millions of Things”, Global Youth Drone Expo - 2020

Presenter: “Data from the Skies: Supporting the Classroom with UAV Site Mapping and Sensing”, OSU GIS Day – 2019, Columbus

Presenter: “Marrying Drones and VR/AR with Pix4D in the Classroom”, Pix4D User Conference – 2019, Denver

Presenter: “How We Harnessed the Potential of UAV Imagery in the Classroom through VR and Other Technologies”, Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture Conference– 2019, London

Presenter: “Moving from Drones to AR/VR in the Classroom”, Visual Resources Association Annual Conference – 2019, Los Angeles

Workshop Instructor: “Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture”,  Visual Resources Association Foundation Regional Workshop – 2018, Rochester, NY

Co-Presenter: “Knowlton's Drones: Leveraging high-resolution aerial imagery for "complete street" service learning”, Innovate Forward Conference – 2018, Columbus

Presenter: “Hiring in Higher Education”, Visual Resources Association Annual Conference – 2018, Philadelphia

Presenter: “Pushing the Limits of Drone Imaging: Explorations in 3D, Multi-Spectral, and RTI Imaging from Above”, National Conference of Visual Resources Association – 2018, Philadelphia

Workshop Instructor: “How do I...? Let's geek out and play!! ”, March 2018

Visual Resources Association Annual Conference – 2018, Philadelphia

Workshop Instructor: “Documenting Cultural Heritage: Strategies and Spaces for Digital Capture”, March 2018
Visual Resources Association Foundation Regional Workshop – 2018, Columbus

Presenter: “Difficult Digitization on a Dime: Crowd-sourcing Ideas to Harness Emerging Imaging Technology”, HASTAC Annual Conference – 2017, Orlando

Invited Presenter: "Future-Proofing: Building Flexibility into Your Digitization Space", Images: Digitization and Preservation of Special Collections in Libraries, Museums, and Archives, NISO Virtual Conference - 2017

Presenter: “Hacking Technology to Document Difficult Spaces”                           

2+3D Photography – Practice and Prophecies – 2017, Amsterdam

Presenter: “Why the semantic web matters for cultural heritage.”  Cultural Heritage at Scale Symposium, Vanderbilt University - 2016, Nashville

Presenter: “Introduction to Makerspaces” National Joint Conference of ARLIS/NA and VRA, - 2016 Seattle