NACSE in the News
May 1, 2008
Tsunami Shelter Showcase held at OSU! Over 400 middle schoolers and their teachers showcased their Tsunami Shelters at this widely news-covered event. This was the capstone of the Tsunami Shelter Challenge where the construction of physical models of the students' shelters were tested at the NEES Tsunami Research Facility here at OSU in partnership with tsunami researchers. Students had the opportunity to see firsthand how their computational models redicted what actually happens, using an world-class experimental lab.See television coverage...
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April 23, 2008
PRISM group spotlighted in USA Today article covering the changes in Plant Hardiness Maps. From the article: "The map to be released soon by the USDA is being prepared by the Prism group at Oregon State University, known for doing sophisticated climate modeling. The 1990 map designated growing zones as small as counties; the new one will narrow the focus to square miles."http://www.usatoday.com/weather/climate/2008-04-23-gardening-map_N.htm Read more of the article...
January 15, 2008
NACSE staff key in USGS Midwinter Bald Eagle Survey information sharing. Coordinated through the National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII), this project was a collaboration between the USGS Forest and Rangeland E cosystem Science Center (FRESC) Scientist Karen Steenhof and NACSE Researchers at Oregon State University. Using the database provided by Steenhof, NACSE developed a public web site to the results of the statistical study of Bald Eagle Mid-Winter counts. The data in the public view is updated every 5 years when the FRESC studies provide new trend data. In addition, NACSE developed an on-line private site for the Mid-Winter counts to be entered by each of the 43 states to a single database. A harvester for the newly entered data was d eveloped by NACSE so that the FRESC scientists can download the data for their statistical studies. N ACSE is now coordinating with the Army Corp of Engineers as they take over data management for the study.Read more about Winter Bald Eagle Database...
October 27, 2007
Chris Daly, Associate Director of NACSE has contributed two of the visually stunning pages of the new National Geographic Atlas of China. This this essential new atlas dramatically highlights the tremendous changes occurring within China, the world's fastest growing economy and most populous place, as well as their global implications.See the first of two pages included in the Atlas... Page 38
See the second of the two pages in the Atlas... Page 39
September 29, 2007
Website developed by NACSE programmers to facilitate access to the IHNV database. The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) announced the new Infectious Hematopeietic Necrosis Virus (IHNV) website and database in their newletter NBII Access, Volume 10 Issue 3. The article explores in-depth the website, the fish disease and the database of the IHNV virus which can cause severe damage to stocks of salmon and trout.This new interface allows fish health managers and researchers to dynamically access information about different strains of IHNV helping with new and continuing research and control of the disease.
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August 25, 2007
NACSE Projects Highlighted by NBII. The National Biological Information Infrastructure's (NBII) Pacific Northwest Information Node (PNWIN) recently released a newly updated section on their web site. The section, Live Maps and Data, highlights projects developed by NACSE in collaboration with several Federal Agencies, including the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service (USDAFS), and the National Park Service (NPS).The new site features information about research on fish, bald eagles, air quality monitoring, and trees plus an image-rich site featuring information about key plant species in the Olympic National Park.
Access this interesting web site at PNWIN Live Maps and Data...
July 30, 2007
The first of two workshops for the 20 rural Oregon teachers selected to guide thier participating schools and students through the two year Tsunami Shelter Challenge was held in at NACSE July 23rd through July 27th! The teachers traveled to the workshop in Corvallis from as far away as 295 miles for fun week of fun summer learning. They learned everything from how to manipulate CAD software to gluing blocks of wood for model tsunami shelters.Read more about this workshop ...
May 28, 2007
The Tsunami Computational Portal is now available! This joint project between NACSE and the Actic Region Supercomputing Center is a shared resource and discussion forum for members of the tsunami research community. It maintains community models of tsunami behavior which draw input from a geospatial database describing costal bathymetry and topography.Enter the Tsunami Computational Portal ...
March 8, 2007
Cherri Pancake, Director of NACSE is being celebrated in a "Faces of OSU" Banner on Jefferson Street here at OSU. The banners celebrate 14 staff, students and alums of OSU. Dr. Pancake's entry -- excerpted from OSU This Week --".. Pancke is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Her research focus is usability engineering, or the study of how to engineer software to be more usable. The particular target audience she focuses on is practicing scientists and engineers and the problems they have when they access large databases across the Internet. Over the past 15 years, she has served as PI or co-PI on research grants totaling over $125 million." Congratulations Cherri!
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February 1, 2007
Rozeanne Steckler of NACSE (Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering) has received a $75,000 grant from the Symantec Foundation to purchase laptop computers and projectors for 20 middle school teachers in rural and coastal Oregon schools, to enhance the impact of the Tsunami Shelter Challenge project recently funded by NSF.Read more about the Symantec Foundation ...
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January 4, 2007
NACSE is working in partnership with OSU Department of Geosciences on the Transboundary Freshwater Dispute Database Website, updating the website script to PHP and working on various other web-enabled tasks for the TFDD staff. This website has international recognition and usage - see the article in a recent UN Newsletter below.Read more about TFDD on their website ...
TFDD article in United Nations Newsletter ...
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