HR: 1330h
AN: ED32C-1219    [PDF]
TI: Facilitating Communication of Geoscientists' Conceptual Mental Imagery at the U.C.S.B. Educational Multimedia Visualization Center
AU: * Atwater, T
EM: atwater@geol.ucsb.edu
AF: Dept. Geological Sciences, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Webb Hall 1006, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States
AU: Tierney, T
EM: tierney@alexandria.ucsb.edu
AF: Alexandria Digital Earth Prototype (ADEPT), Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, Dept. of Computer Science, Santa Barbara, CA 93106 United States
AB: Professional geoscientists tend to have specific, elaborate "mental cartoons" that encapsulate their conceptual understandings of earth processes. The computer revolution has made it possible for this mental imagery to be illustrated and animated in ways not previously possible, while the development of the Internet is making it easily shared. The power of this new communication mode for both research communication and for education at all levels and venues is only beginning to be exploited. The Educational Multimedia Visualization Center at U.C.S.B. is devoted to creating conceptual animations and imbedding them in contextual images (maps, photographs, diagrams, etc.) in order to facilitate this revolution in visual communication. Projects are created for both in-house researchers and for visitors to the center. Recent project topics include numerous plate tectonic processes and histories (global, regional, and local), geological histories, volcanic processes and specific volcanic histories, coastal processes, geological manifestations of the ice ages (including the Black Sea flood), formation and trapping of petroleum, and others.
UR: http://emvc.geol.ucsb.edu
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 8110 Continental tectonics--general (0905)
DE: 8155 Plate motions--general
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting