HR: 0800h
AN: SF21A-0006    [Abstracts]
TI: The Earth Exploration Toolbook: Making Diverse Earth Science Datasets Available and Usable by Space and Earth Science Researchers and Decision Makers
AU: * Ledley, T S
EM: Tamara_Ledley@terc.edu
AF: Center for Science Teaching and Learning, TERC, 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
AU: Dahlman, L
EM: LuAnn_Dahlman@terc.edu
AF: Center for Science Teaching and Learning, TERC, 2067 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02140 United States
AB: As research programs have become more interdisciplinary in nature it has become necessary for scientists to include data in their analysis that would traditionally fall outside their discipline of expertise. In the same way decision makers, who must deal with questions of an interdisciplinary nature, need to work with data from a wide range of disciplines, many of which are beyond their expertise. The question is how can these datasets and the software needed to access and analyze them become more easily available and usable by interdisciplinary research scientists and decision makers. The Earth Exploration Toolbook (EET, serc.carleton.edu/eet) was developed for the educational community; however, it has much broader applications. The EET chapters provide step-by-step instructions for using specific Earth science datasets and software tools, walking users through interesting examples that explore issues or concepts in Earth system science. These chapters can provide research scientists and decision makers with enough experience using particular datasets and data analysis tools outside of their area of expertise that they can then use the datasets and/or tools to address questions suggested by their research or societal needs. The EET team also facilitates the effective use of EET chapters through our 2-hour telecon-online workshops. During each workshop participants are walked through a specific chapter by and EET team member. After the workshop participants are in a better position to use the data and tool effectively. In this presentation we will demonstrate how the EET chapters can be useful to researchers and decision makers, and solicit input as to how to make this tool even more useful to these communities.
UR: http://www.serc.carleton.edu/eet
DE: 6605 Education
DE: 6699 General or miscellaneous
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 0845 Instructional tools
SC: Special Focus: Advances in Data Acquisition, Management, Analysis and Display [SF]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting