1. Science on a Sphere James Madison University Christie-Joy Brodrick, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, ISAT Tiffany Newbold SHENAIR Program Manager, ISAT

2. James Madison University The JMU Learning Experience JMU’s approximately 17,000 students are educated to be technological problem solvers and communicators Academic programs are integrated with business and technology to offer a unique partnership among students, faculty, business and government Continuous integration of teaching and research at all levels of the curriculum, undergraduate and graduate Degrees Conferred (2005): -Undergraduate: 3,329 -Graduate: 398 -Doctoral: 51

3. Partnerships

4. Installation Installation: Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006

5. Training Benzing, Thomas (ISAT) Blatz, Sharon (Ed Programs) Brodrick, Christie (ISAT) Clemens, Claire (Library) Clemens, Richard (Ed Tech) Curtis, Chad (Art) Davis, Corbin (Geog student) Fenzel, Matthew (ISAT student) Giraytys, James (ISAT) Griffin, Oris (COE) Ingram, Richard (COE) Johnson, Elizabeth (Geology) Kander, Ronald (ISAT) Klevickis, Cynthia (ISAT) Kraenzel, Helmut (Geography) Kolvoord, Robert (ISAT, COE) Marin, Claudia (CS MS student) Mata-Toledo, Hector (CS) Newbold, Tiffany (ISAT) Purcell, Steve (Ed Programs) Pyle, Eric (Geology) Slykhuis, David (COE) St John, Kristen (Geology) Tumer, Tiffany (ISAT) Ulanski, Stan (Geology) Pilot Group Participants Winter/Spring 2007

6. Presentation  We use live presenters for our demonstrations – the faculty that have been trained to use the sphere use it to enhance their lectures.  Once open to the public, we will hire a part-time person to run the sphere for various groups.

7. Unique Aspects  Only institute of higher education to house SOS  Potential partnerships with local universities and K-12 education  Located in the College of Education  Create custom content to correlate to VA SOL curriculum  Develop classroom lessons to incorporate the sphere  Integrate with the GLOBE program  Used to train pre-service teachers  Resources at the university  GIS and Computer Science Departments  Students and faculty  IT  SHENAIR

8. Developing Ideas  Graduate student developing custom software to allow the user to upload a.jpeg file without needing to manipulate GIS software  Student working on understanding how to take maps from ArcGIS either directly to the sphere or to the sphere as quickly as possible. This will involve scripting within GIS and a bit of an interface with the SOS software.  Partnerships with local community groups  Collaboration with K-12 schools  Air Quality simulations

9. Custom Content First air quality projections by Corbin Davis, senior, Geography Ozone AQI from EPA website

10. Questions