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November 7, 2001
Dear NOAA reviewers,
Welcome to our demonstration website. Please feel free to browse and get to know us. We hope you'll be excited and confident in what we can do for your project.
Our sample begins with part of an experimental prototype built for the NOAA/NURP cruise to the Gulf of Alaska in 1999. It is a chronicle-based presentation. This time, we propose enhancements to your chronicling, rather than a chronicle. However, we include this work to highlight the nature of our work and our experiences in the Gulf with Atlantis and Alvin.
Secondly, we show you our expedition coverage for Descent to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Although this NSF-funded website was produced on very short notice, it again highlights our capabilities and logistical experience with Atlantis and Alvin. This project was a truly multi-institutional effort, involving Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Duke University, University of Washington, and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution primarily. Unexpected discoveries brought us coverage from national media such as ABCnews.com: Underwater Mountaneering.
Lastly, we present an assortment of examples from a variety of projects, highlighting past illustration and interactivity solutions for the web. If funded, we'd like to focus our creative energies on web solutions for education and outreach to suit your needs.
We hope you will enjoy your web journey, and thanks for dropping in.
Sincerely,
Wolf Berger, Dan Lubin, and Memorie Yasuda
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Sample materials:
1. Previous materials from NOAA/NURP Gulf of Alaska cruise 1999
a. Alaska 1999 home page
b. Introduction and overview
c. Cold seep biology
d. Plate tectonics
2. MAR: Descent to the Mid-Atlantic Ridge
3. Supplementary materials
a. Science standards
We can provide an interactive chart indicating which components of our site meet specific science education standards.
b. Glossary
4. Interaction with images
c. Daily Catch
Provided with imagery and content about each organism, we envisioned Daily Catch highlighting samples of life collected each day of the expedition. We could offer sufficiently detailed photos to allow identification and description of organisms by the audience. Researchers such as Lisa Levin have proposed to do so in their proposal.
d. Microscope flash
We can offer the view from a microscope. With adequate imagery, the audience could control virtual zoom and depth-of-field.
5. Interactives illlustrating scientific concepts or datasets
e. Worm flash
To accompany key photographs, we can create complementary diagrams that highlight key components.
f. Water molecule
We strive to create clear diagrams containing basic information.
g. Absorption animation
We can create simple or complex Flash animations to target project needs. Because of our own in-house science and education expertise, we have experience communicating with scientists and educators.
h. Wave applet
We have created interactive applets for the web.
i. ENSO SST flash
We use GMT to plot maps. This Flash animation was created by compiling several GMT output maps of Sea Surface Temperature Anomaly.
6. Earthguide - Our home website
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Demonstration materials to accompany