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TI: Using Geowall to Promote Undergraduate Research
AU: * SCEC EIT Intern Team, .
EM: perry@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, 3651 Trousdale Parkway SCI 169, Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States
AU: Perry, S
EM: perry@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, 3651 Trousdale Parkway SCI 169, Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States
AU: Jordan, T
EM: tjordan@usc.edu
AF: Southern California Earthquake Center, USC, 3651 Trousdale Parkway SCI 169, Los Angeles, CA 90089 United States
AB: The principal use of our Geowall system is to showcase the 3-D visualizations created by SCEC/EITR (Southern California Earthquake Center/Earthquake Information Technology Research) interns. These visualizations, called LA3D, are devised to educate the public, assist researchers, inspire students, and attract new interns. With the design criteria that LA3D code must be object-oriented and open-source, and that all datasets should be in internet-accessible databases, our interns have made interactive visualizations of southern California's earthquakes, faults, landforms, and other topographic features, that allow unlimited additions of new datasets and map objects. The interns built our Geowall system, and made a unique contribution to the Geowall consortium when they devised a simple way to use Java3D to create and send images to Geowall's projectors. The EIT interns are enormously proud of their accomplishments, and for most, working on LA3D has been the high point of their college careers. Their efforts have become central to testbed development of the system level science that SCEC is orchestrating in its Community Modeling Environment. In addition, SCEC's Communication, Education and Outreach Program uses LA3D on Geowall to communicate concepts about earthquakes and earthquake processes. Then, projecting LA3D on Geowall, it becomes easy to impress students from elementary to high school ages with what can be accomplished if they keep learning math and science. Finally, we bring Geowall to undergraduate research symposia and career-day open houses, to project LA3D and attract additional students to our intern program, which to date has united students in computer science, engineering, geoscience, mathematics, communication, pre-law, and cinema. (Note: distribution copies of LA3D will be available in early 2004.) The Southern California Earthquake Center Earthquake Information Technology Intern Team on this project: Adam Bongarzone, Hunter Francoeur, Lindsay Gordon, Nitin Gupta, Vipin Gupta, Jeff Hoeft, Shalini Jhatakia, Leonard Jimenez, Gideon Juve, Douglas Lam, Jed Link, Gavin Locke, Deepak Mehtani, Bill Paetzke, Nick Palmer, Brandee Pierce, Ryan Prose, Nitin Sharma, Ghunghroo Sinha, Jeremie Smith, Brandon Teel, Robert Weekly, Channing Wong, Jeremy Zechar.
DE: 7200 SEISMOLOGY
DE: 7223 Seismic hazard assessment and prediction
DE: 7230 Seismicity and seismotectonics
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting