Notes Stewart Dickson
Welcoming Remarks (Jim Fox)
David Knowles -- Multi-Disciplinary shift in University structure.
Importance of "Place" -- Dichotomy
Place Doesn't Matter -- Global networking -- Business-centric
Choose the best place to live -- Human-centric -- Quality of life
Frank Niepold -- Climate-Literate Public
Make sure the public is able to listen and understand when we talk.
Bloom-based, Wiggens-based models of literacy
Internalize in order to externalize in action
*Visual Drama -- Scientist-Public Communication Disconnect
"Animation", "Story-telling" -- scary words to scientists
Carrie McDougall -- UC Santa Barbara, Marine Science
Price, Nate at CIMI
Positive steps toward global warming -- the positive story of climate change.
NCEP / AMNH Cloud Cover Visualization
Date scale displayed as traveling-square-highlighted time-line horizontal bar.
See Maya timeline UI.
NOAA Office of Education Federal Funding Opportunities
Jim Fox -- Informal Ed.
RENCI -- Content/Technology for Science on a Sphere
Dan Pisut, NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab -- Satellite Rainfall Data -- Source? (URL)
* David McConville -- Un-asking Global Warming
Judo approach to handling the Corporation -- allow Giant's own momentum to lead to its weakening -- to fall on its own sword -- to indict itself.
The Yes Men
Positive message -- Solution
Linear vs. Visual/Spatial learning -- unique individual talent/limitaitons
Model the complete Earth? S. Wolfram's Computational Universality.
Is economic development compatible with disaster mitigation?
Frank Niepold low level of decision-making relative to weather.
Regional planning vis-a-vis weather -- intelligent City/County planning regulation. Landslide, erosion risks.
What was the 100-tear flood 50 years ago is now the 30-year flood.
Building starts Bunbombe County over time
Google Earth Sketchup platform
Production Crew -- Warren Wilson Students
Visual Nature Studio -> Sketchup -> GIS -> KMZ (Zipped KML) -> Google Earth
Chuck Fultz -- Hendersonville Web Design -- "EXSCAPE" Flash project
Sensing the Radio Sky
Stewart Dickson Scientific Visualization Production Structure (1.04Mbyte MS PowerPoint)
Bill Ribarsky , Charlotte Visualization Center -- IEEE Virtual Reality Conference March 10-14, 2007 Charlotte
Sunyoung Bae -- Geographical Coordinates from CMAQ VISTAS_36k Grid
Lambert Conformal Map VISTAS_36k <-> Geographical Coords?
API in Vis5D?
External API? http://www.gdal.org/
Matt Raker -- Top Floor Studio -- EKG Monitor Interface