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TI: The State of the GeoWall
AU: * Morin, P J
EM: lpaul@umn.edu
AF: University of Minnesota Department of Geology and Geophysics, 310 Pillsbury Drive, Minneapolis, MN 55455 United States
AU: Leigh, J
EM: spiff@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualizaton Lab, (M/C 152) University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, IL 60607-7053 United States
AU: van Keken, P
EM: keken@umich.edu
AF: University of Michigan Department of Geological Sciences, 2534 C. C. Little Building, 425 East University, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1063 United States
AU: Johnson, A
EM: ajohnson@evl.uic.edu
AF: Electronic Visualizaton Lab, (M/C 152) University of Illinois at Chicago 851 S. Morgan St. Room 1120 SEO, Chicago, IL 60607-7053 United States
AB: The GeoWall stereo projection technology has been widely adopted within Earth Science. Over 20,000 undergraduate students per year use a GeoWall in classroom and lab settings at over 80 institutions around the world using over 200 GeoWalls. We believe that critical mass for this technology has been reached in the Earth Science. Many collaborations have been initiated. With Iris, GeoWall is exploring new ways to monitor seismic networks in real-time and to visualize extremely large, whole Earth seismic simulations. We are also working with a number of drilling organizations including JOI, DOSECC and LacCore to bring modern visualization technology to core interpretation and drill site selection. Also, over 15 museums now have or are building GeoWalls for informal education. Much of the science that is being performed on the GeoWall is finding its way directly into the classroom and science museum. One of the success stories has been the GeoWall Consortium's interaction with industry. The basic hardware for the GeoWall has been spun off to companies that now sell variations of the hardware. In addition, many software companies including ESRI and Dynamic Graphics have added support for the GeoWall in their products. The future of GeoWall is four fold. Curriculum development will bring more material to all GeoWall users. Assessment of the curriculum and educational psychology will give us GeoWall best practices. In technology development, the GeoWall 2 is a 20+ million pixel, tiled display which brings more resolution to the Earth Sciences than ever. To support research the consortium is developing a volume rendering application to visualize extremely large datasets.
UR: http://www.geowall.org
DE: 3699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 4594 Instruments and techniques
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 7294 Instruments and techniques
DE: 8099 General or miscellaneous
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting