NOAA SOS Users Collaborative Network
January 22-24, 2007
Maryland Science Center - Baltimore, MD
Summary
NOAA's Office of Education held a workshop for the user's group of NOAA's Science On a Sphere (SOS) system (the SOS Users Collaborative Network). The workshop, which took place in Baltimore, MD on January 22-24th, allowed institutions that have public displays of SOS and groups that work with the technology to discuss best practices and plans for advancing the SOS program. The 61 participants in attendance represented 24 different organizations, including informal science centers, federal, agencies, universities, and exhibit and visualization specialists. The workshop included demonstrations at two exhibits that feature SOS: the first at the Maryland Science Center where the meeting was held, and the second at the NASA Goddard Visitor's Center, the destination of an afternoon visit. The workshop generated some exciting ideas and substantial plans for advancing the SOS system and the content that is available for the system. You can learn more about Science On a Sphere from the program Web site at: www.sos.noaa.gov.
This workshop report contains materials associated with the workshop, all of the presentations that were given during the workshop, and summary notes for each workshop session. The materials that apply to the entire workshop are presented first, followed by the presentations and notes which are presented according to the order of the workshop sessions,
If you have any questions about the workshop you can contact John McLaughlin of NOAA's Office of Education at John.McLaughlin@noaa.gov.
Workshop Materials
Presentations and Notes
Note: These items are presented in order of the sessions of the workshop for which they correspond to. Opening Session- Presentation of meeting objectives & logistics - John McLaughlin
- Presentation of Plans for SOS program development - Carrie McDougall
- NASA presentation (no associated files) - Maurice Henderson and Horace Mitchell
- Overview of new SOS software release - David Himes
- Notes from this Session
Invited Speakers: SOS Institutions and Others
- MD Science Center Overview (no associated files) - Roberta Cooks
- Science Museum of Minnesota - Pat Hamilton
- Bishop Museum - Mike Shanahan
- The Tech Museum - Sima Westwood
- Nauticus - Martin Fisher
- Hampton University - John Anderson & Dianne Robinson
- University of Wisconsin - Rick Kohrs
- Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary - Chuck Bennett
- James Madison University - Christie-Joy Brodrick
- Imiloa Astronomy Center of Hawaii (no associated files) - Kalewa Correa
- National Maritime Museum of the Gulf of Mexico - Tony Zodrow
- Smithsonian Ocean Hall - Carrie McDougall (presenting in place of Barbara Stauffer)
- Orlando Science Center - Brian Tonner
- McWane Science Center - Greg Christenson
- Fiske Planetarium - Tom Muncy (presenting in place of Doug Duncan)
- NOAA's Environmental Visualization Program - Dan Pisut
- AMNH - Ned Gardiner
- Notes from this Session
Breakout Groups Session 1:
Technical Strand – Software and Hardware Issues
Content Strand – Creating New Content
Breakout Groups Session 2:Technical Strand – Virtual Library
Content Strand – Evaluation
Breakout Groups Session 3:
Technical Strand - Making SOS more interactive
Content Strand – Effective Visualizations
Presentation Session on the Sphere at Goddard:
- Overview of SOS at Goddard (no associated files) - Maurice Henderson
- Content Source: NASA's Earth Observations - David Herring
- Overview of content capability of NASA's SVS - Horace Mitchell
- Showing and Discussion of Footprints (no associated files) - Michael Starobin
- New SOS content from Univ. of Wisc (no associated files) - Rick Kohrs
- New SOS content from SMM (no associated files) - Pat Hamilton
- New SOS content from the Tech (no associated files) - Sima Westwood
- Content Source: Science Bulletins - Ned Gardiner
- Content Source: Earth Today - Barbara Schoeberl
- Planned developments for SOS - David Himes
- Notes from this session
Hands-on training sessions on SOS
- No notes for this session
Tour of MSC SOS exhibit and discussion of Kiosks
Meeting Wrap Up and Next Steps Discussion: