STARBORD Participants' Web Pages
This is the home site of the STARBORD component of COAST.
STARBORD, Stimulating Teachers About Resources for Broad Oceanographic
Research and Discovery, is a high-school-level effort combining training
with teacher/student research partnerships to leverage computational
science tools for ocean science research. It transforms hard data and
raw numbers into visual representations of complex problems and
conditions in ways that make those data engaging, understandable, and
useful in local contexts.
STARBORD, implemented by Mississippi State University (MSU), unites and
leverages existing partnerships for oceanographic research, high school
science education, formal and informal science education, and scientific
visualization in order to bring unique capabilities to the COAST
collaboration.
Mississippi State University's National Science Foundation Engineering
Research Center (NSF ERC) for Computational Field Simulation has been
applying state of the art computational science and visualization tools to ocean
science problems in partnership with the
Naval Oceanographic Office for the last five years.
STARBORD is developing a set of three-dimensional tools for Web-based
Oceanographic science targeted at high school students and teachers.
These tools, developed as a set of integrated and inter-related
components, will allow high school students and teachers to interact
with such oceanographic data sets as thermography, ocean floor terrain,
salinity, etc. to perform investigation and analysis. Students and
teachers will be able to interact with the STARBORD resources in three
ways. First, they will be able to view the resources as delivered,
explore linked sites, and apply the tools to data available over the
internet from such agencies as the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA). Second, they will be able to develop or utilize
local or regional data, creating models of regional bathymetry,
visualizations of local marine life, or analyses of regional phenomena.
And third, they will be able to develop new pieces of the STARBORD
resources by creating tools, models, analyses and visualizations which
become part of the STARBORD environment available nationwide.
