Projects
NMRI Projects
Posted April 23rd, 2007 by Bruce Caron in
The Research Institute partners with major university and government research efforts to develop advanced informatics solutions for education and public use. The list of active projects is in the menu above (on the right).
Land Cover and Lightning Data Viewer
Posted December 7th, 2010 by Bruce Caron in
This "data blender" lets students compare classified land cover data with a global lightning strike data set.
World Ocean Atlas Viewer
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Bruce Caron
The WOA viewer brings the entire NOAA World Ocean Atlas 2005 ocean chemistry climatologies into one easy to use viewer.
This downloadable application for the MAC or PC is free to use for educational purposes.
DOWNLOAD: World Ocean Atlas Viewer NOTE: 500 MB download.
For more information on the dataset, visit the NODC website FAQ page .
SBDART Radiative Transfer Model GUI
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Bruce CaronThe SBDART project was created to explore how a FORTRAN model could be wrapped in a GUI and delivered as an application. The SBDART model's FORTRAN compiler is PC ONLY.
DOWNLOAD: SBDART (Santa Barbara DISORT Atmospheric Radiative Transfer)
THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED in any fashion. Use at your own risk.
LINK: SBDART homepage
Here is the authorized description of the model:
Climate Change Model Simulation on the PC
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Bruce Caron
The Human Impact Decision Education Simulator was another PC application. This one took the IPCC climate change simulations and created a way to simulate the impacts of various decisions. Prof. Catherine Gautier used this for several years in her classes at UCSB.
There is a LAB for this at UCSB (PDF): The Human Impact Decision Education Simulator LAB
Early Work with multimedia objects and avatars
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Bruce Caron
The "Data Discovery" series funded by NASA Earth Science and accomplished by Planet Earth Science in the late 1990s was an opportunity to explore Macromedia (now Adobe) Director's capabilities.
The PC (Windows) applications are still downloadable. The Mac side was done in System 9, and has not survived the subsequent change of both operating system and CPU on the Mac.
You can DOWNLOAD the ZIPPED PC application (WARNING: hundreds of megabytes) for the following applications:
Download: Data Discovery: El Nino
A New VISION for the Research Institute!
Posted September 9th, 2009 by Bruce CaronIn August, 2009, The Instititute received word that the Phase II STTR project, Volumetric Imaging for Science Instruction of an Open Nature, has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Remotely-Sensed Earth-Data Visualization Tool and Technology Summit
Posted August 11th, 2009 by Bruce CaronRemotely-Sensed Earth-Data Visualization Tool and Technology Summit: Santa Barbara, October 27, 2009
Dear earth data visualization tool maker:
Building a Web 2.5 social network and community
Posted December 2nd, 2008 by Bruce CaronThe Research Institute was given a contract from UCSB to help manage the planning phase of a proposal to the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation. This proposal, DigitalOcean, involves the development of a dedicated social network (ECOSNet) linked to other Web 2.0 services, such as Flickr and Google Ocean, and building a strong community of users who will provide content for the system.
