HR: 12:10h
AN: ED22A-08 [Abstracts]
TI: Postcards from the Field: Using the Web to Bring Near-Real Time Field Work to the Public
AU: Genyuk, J
EM: jgenyuk@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: * Johnson, R M
EM: rmjohnsn@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Gardiner, L
EM: egardine@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Russell, R
EM: rrussell@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Bergman, J
EM: jenjoy@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: LaGrave, M
EM: mlagrave@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Hatheway, B
EM: hatheway@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Foster, S
EM: susanf@ucar.edu
AF: University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, PO Box 3000, Boulder, CO 80307,
United States
AU: Araujo-Pradere, E A
EM: Eduardo.Araujo@noaa.gov
AF: CIRES-Univ. of Colorado, NOAA-Space Environment Center, 325 Broadway W/NP9,
Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AB:
Field work is one of the aspects of a career in the geosciences that can make it so attractive to students and the
public. The chance to go to exciting places, and to see amazing things, while making new discoveries is almost
too good to be true. The "Postcards from the Field" capability,
developed and implemented in the Windows to the Universe website project in 2006, is now providing a new
ability to bring this excitement to a large and global audience online. Windows to the Universe is an extremely
popular interdisciplinary Earth and space science educational website, with over 20 million visitors per year,
including a large following of students and educators. The website is composed of over 7000 interlinked web
pages spanning the geosciences, at three levels of sophistication, in English and Spanish.
Our Postcards from the Field capability, which was originally developed in support of a major field campaign in
Mexico City in 2006 (the Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations campaign - MILAGRO), has
now been generalized to support submissions from researchers engaged in multiple field campaigns. To date,
in addition to postcards submitted during the MILAGRO campaign, we have hosted postcards from researchers
and educators studying the life cycle of Adelie penguins in the Antarctic, the East Pacific Rise as a component of
the RIDGE2000 program, and storm formation in Europe as a component of the Convective and Orographically-
induced Precipitation Study (COPS). We are now expanding our postcard lines to include submissions from
researchers engaged in the IPY and educators engaged with the ANDRILL (ANtarctic Geologic DRILLing)
Research Immersion for Science Educators program.
This presentation will present this new capability, its ease of use, and our vision for how it can be used to bring
the excitement of field research to the public, students, and educators online.
UR: http://www.windows.ucar.edu
DE: 0805 Elementary and secondary education
DE: 0810 Post-secondary education
DE: 0815 Informal education
DE: 0855 Diversity
DE: 9820 Techniques applicable in three or more fields
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2007 Fall Meeting