Abstract
Introducing the Ocean Geo-Portal: An Educational and Data Harvesting Tool Track: Ocean, Coastal, and Marine Resources Author(s): Daniel Cole The Ocean Geo-portal encompasses the geo-referenced portion of NMNH's 33 million marine specimens from eight of the museum's divisions (Invertebrate Zoology, Fish, Mammals, Amphibians and Reptiles, Birds, Botany, Minerals, and Paleobiology). These large data sets may be combined for display and analysis (based on fields of taxonomy, location, depth, collector, ship, expedition, etc) with environmental data sets from our partners from NOAA, as well as any site-specific data sets from our collaborators (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Scripps, NASA, Monterey Bay Research Institute, National Geographic Society, New England Aquarium, other Smithsonian research units, and universities). We plan to make available both static maps, as a teaching tool, for children to access and learn, as well as extensive data bases for outside scientists to harvest spatial data. Related to the Geo-Portal, we also plan to provide educational materials developed by collaborators and incorporate those lessons into ArcIMS. Daniel Cole Smithsonian IT Office, MRC 136 10th & Constitution NW Washington , DC 20560 US Phone: 202-633-0747 Fax: 202-357-4122 E-mail: coled@si.edu |
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