Science On a Sphere Users Collaborative Network
NOAA
Plenary
Dr. Carrie McDougall, Senior Program Manager, NOAA Office of Education
Rear Admiral Tim Gallaudet, Ph.D., USN Ret. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere & Deputy NOAA Administrator
Updates from the NOAA SOS Boulder Team
SOS: How the choreography of our contemplation completes a portrait of our distress
Lars Jan, Director, Artist, Writer, and Activist
Science On a Sphere: The Creation Story
Dr. Sandy MacDonald, inventor of SOS and Retired Director of NOAA’s Earth System Research Lab
Lightning Talks
Christie-Joy Hartman, Dhanuska Wijesinghe, & Christy Bradburn, James Madison University
Daphne Cook, Metropolitan Community College
William Shuart and Robert Tombes, Virginia Commonwealth University
Md Aftab Hussain, Srikrishna Science Centre, Patna, NCSM
Kathryn Semmens, Nurture Nature Center
Emily Yam & Staci Wong, Aquarium of the Pacific
Joe Witte, Aquent/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
Maurice Henderson, NASA
Beth Russell, NOAA Boulder/CIRES
Stephen Zepecki, NOAA’s Office of Education
Kate Raisz, 42 Degrees North Media
Rafael de Ameller, NOAA's Satellite Visualization Laboratory
Breakout Sessions
Teaching the Teachers: Providing Data Visualization Summer Institutes
Denice Blair & Amanda Tickner, Michigan State University
Building Data Visualization Capacity in an Environment Transformed by COVID‐19th
Vetria L. Byrd, Purdue University
On the Front Lines with the Underserved: Educating Through Crisis
Daphne Cook, Metropolitian Community College
Active Remote Learning: SOS Explorer mobile and supplemental technologies for K-12 students
Nicholas Corcoran, The Wild Center
Applying and Modifying NOAA Satellite Environmental Data
Rafael DeAmeller, Tim Loomis, & Vivek Goel, NOAA Visualization Laboratory
Turning the Tide on Plastic
Paolo Degiovanni, Museo delle Scienze
Keeping it local: how to access the climate data of your own backyard
Thomas DiLiberto, NOAA Climate Program Office
Role of Science City, Kolkata in communicating Science to masses using SOS
Subha Sankar Ghosh, Science City, Kolkata
Innovation in the time of COVID
Eric Hackathorn, NOAA SOS Boulder
It's Getting Hot in Here: The Story of Arctic Sea Ice Loss
Mars Knight, Science Central
Tiny Tutorials: Supporting virtual learning by making data more accessible
Bekkah Lampe, NOAA Office of Education
@NOAASatellites Greatest Hits of 2020: Best Social Media Practices
Sara Leeds & Lyric Prince, NOAA Visualization Laboratory
From Fieldwork to Prediction: How scientists forecast Red Tide events
Terry McTigue, Lizhen Li, & Steve Kibler, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
Grabbing Real-time Data From Anywhere to Enhance Your Visualization
Thomas Quayle & Nathan Wells, Clark Planetarium
Cartography of Contentment
Bob Raynolds & KaChun Yu, Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Best Practices for science communication with high stakes audiences: Visualizing data from the National Geodetic Survey
Brian Shaw, NOAA National Geodetic Survey
Attractive shows for SOS
Amitabah Singh, Srikrishna Science Centre
Using NASA Earth Observations (NEO) for Spherical Display Systems
Andi Thomas, NASA
SOS Explorer: Creating Interpretative Programming with Virtual Reach
Justin Umholtz, Mokupāpapa Discovery Center
Slide to the Left: Using Microsoft PowerPoint for Entry-Level Dataset Creation
Nick VanAcker, Michigan State University
Integrating SOS Technology in the K‐12 Classroom
Rachel Wellman & Lauren Butcher, Palm Beach County School District