HR: 0800h
AN: ED11A-0117    [Abstracts]
TI: Providing a virtual tour of a glacial watershed
AU: * Berner, L
EM: berner.logan@gmail.com
AF: University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
AU: Habermann, M
AF: University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
AU: Hood, E
EM: eran.hood@uas.alaska.edu
AF: University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
AU: Fatland, R
EM: Rob.Fatland@microsoft.com
AF: Vexcel/Microsoft Geospatial Solutions, 1690 38th St, Boulder, CO 80301, United States
AU: Heavner, M
EM: matt.heavner@uas.alaska.edu
AF: University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
AU: Knuth, E
EM: eknuth@gmail.com
AF: University of Alaska Southeast, 11120 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 99801, United States
AB: SEAMONSTER, a NASA funded sensor web project, is the SouthEast Alaska MOnitoring Network for Science, Telecommunications, Education, and Research. Seamonster is leveraging existing open-source software and is an implementation of existing sensor web technologies intended to act as a sensor web testbed, an educational tool, a scientific resource, and a public resource. The primary focus area of initial SEAMONSTER deployment is the Lemon Creek watershed, which includes the Lemon Creek Glacier studied as part of the 1957-58 IPY. This presentation describes our year one efforts to maximize education and public outreach activities of SEAMONSTER. During the first summer, 37 sensors were deployed throughout two partially glaciated watersheds and facilitated data acquisition in temperate rain forest, alpine, lacustrine, and glacial environments. Understanding these environments are important for public understanding of climate change. These environments are geographically isolated, limiting public access to, and understanding of, such locales. In an effort to inform the general public and primary educators about the basic processes occurring in these unique natural systems, we are developing an interactive website. This web portal will supplement and enhance environmental science primary education by providing educators and students with interactive access to basic information from the glaciological, hydrological, and meteorological systems we are studying. In addition, we are developing an interactive virtual tour of the Lemon Glacier and its watershed. This effort will include Google Earth as a means of real-time data visualization and will take advantage of time-lapse movies, photographs, maps, and satellite imagery to promote an understanding of these unique natural systems and the role of sensor webs in education.
UR: http://seamonsterak.com/
DE: 0483 Riparian systems (0744, 1856)
DE: 0720 Glaciers
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting