Science on a Sphere

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• Science on a Sphere

James Madison University
Christie-Joy Brodrick, Ph.D.Assistant Professor,
ISAT Tiffany NewboldSHENAIR Program Manager, ISAT
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James Madison University

• The JMU Learning Experience
• JMUs approximately 17,000 students are educated
  to be technological problem solvers and
  communicators
• Academic programs are integrated with business
  and technology to offer a unique partnership
  among students, faculty, business and government
• Continuous integration of teaching and research
  at all levels of the curriculum, undergraduate
  and graduate
• Degrees Conferred (2005)
• -Undergraduate 3,329
• -Graduate 398
• -Doctoral 51

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Partnerships
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Installation

• Installation Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006

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Training
Pilot Group ParticipantsWinter/Spring 2007

• Benzing, Thomas (ISAT)
• Blatz, Sharon (Ed Programs)
• Brodrick, Christie (ISAT)
• Clemens, Claire (Library)
• Clemens, Richard (Ed Tech)
• Curtis, Chad (Art)
• Davis, Corbin (Geog student)
• Fenzel, Matthew (ISAT student)
• Giraytys, James (ISAT)
• Griffin, Oris (COE)
• Ingram, Richard (COE)
• Johnson, Elizabeth (Geology)
• Kander, Ronald (ISAT)

• Klevickis, Cynthia (ISAT)
• Kraenzel, Helmut (Geography)
• Kolvoord, Robert (ISAT, COE)
• Marin, Claudia (CS MS student)
• Mata-Toledo, Hector (CS)
• Newbold, Tiffany (ISAT)
• Purcell, Steve (Ed Programs)
• Pyle, Eric (Geology)
• Slykhuis, David (COE)
• St John, Kristen (Geology)
• Tumer, Tiffany (ISAT)
• Ulanski, Stan (Geology)

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Presentation

• We use live presenters for our demonstrations
  the faculty that have been trained to use the
  sphere use it to enhance their lectures.
• Once open to the public, we will hire a part-time
  person to run the sphere for various groups.

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Unique Aspects

• Only institute of higher education to house SOS
• Potential partnerships with local universities
  and K-12 education
• Located in the College of Education
• Create custom content to correlate to VA SOL
  curriculum
• Develop classroom lessons to incorporate the
  sphere
• Integrate with the GLOBE program
• Used to train pre-service teachers
• Resources at the university
• GIS and Computer Science Departments
• Students and faculty
• IT
• SHENAIR

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Developing Ideas

• Graduate student developing custom software to
  allow the user to upload a .jpeg file without
  needing to manipulate GIS software
• Student working on understanding how to take maps
  from ArcGIS either directly to the sphere or to
  the sphere as quickly as possible.  This will
  involve scripting within GIS and a bit of an
  interface with the SOS software.
• Partnerships with local community groups
• Collaboration with K-12 schools
• Air Quality simulations

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Custom Content

• First air quality projections by Corbin Davis,
  senior, Geography
• Ozone AQI from EPA website

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Questions