The Earth System Science Community Curriculum Testbed



Abstract

At Gonzaga College High School, with funding from NASA HPCC, ECOlogic Corporation is utilizing the latest advances in networking infrastructure to establish, foster, and evaluate a pilot educational community of high schools and universities devoted to investigation of the Earth system using NASA's and other agencies' computational resources. The objective of the community is to develop a scalable Earth System Science community curriculum which facilitates student investigation activities, including project management, expert mentoring, remote-sensing data and meta-data access and analysis, application of collaborative visualization and system modeling tools, synthesis in hypermedia publication on WWW and creation of a community knowledgebase.



The ESSCC Testbed Homepage

An Exemplary Depiction of the ESSCC Testbed (72K Image)by J. Fischer, NASA GSFC

Introduction

Implementation Plan

Bibliography



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