Science on a Sphere
James Madison University
Christie-Joy Brodrick, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, ISAT
Tiffany Newbold
SHENAIR Program Manager, ISAT
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
Partnerships
Installation
Installation: Nov 27-Dec 1, 2006
Training
Pilot Group Participants
Winter/Spring 2007
Benzing, Thomas (ISAT)
Blatz, Sharon (Ed Programs) Klevickis, Cynthia (ISAT)
Brodrick, Christie (ISAT) Kraenzel, Helmut (Geography)
Clemens, Claire (Library) Kolvoord, Robert (ISAT, COE)
Clemens, Richard (Ed Tech) Marin, Claudia (CS MS student)
Curtis, Chad (Art) Mata-Toledo, Hector (CS)
Davis, Corbin (Geog student) Newbold, Tiffany (ISAT)
Fenzel, Matthew (ISAT student) Purcell, Steve (Ed Programs)
Giraytys, James (ISAT) Pyle, Eric (Geology)
Griffin, Oris (COE) Slykhuis, David (COE)
Ingram, Richard (COE) St John, Kristen (Geology)
Johnson, Elizabeth (Geology) Tumer, Tiffany (ISAT)
Kander, Ronald (ISAT) Ulanski, Stan (Geology)
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.
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
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
Custom Content
First air quality projections by Corbin Davis, senior, Geography
Ozone AQI from EPA website
Questions