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| Indiana University - Research Experience for Undergraduates - May 31 - July 26, 2013 |
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Justin Deloatch
Grad - MS in RS - ECSU
justindeloatch07@yahoo.com
Mentor: Dr. Geoffrey Fox
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| Utilizing HUBzero to Create an Educational Hub for CReSIS Educational Data Sets |
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| HUBzero is an open source software package used to construct web sites for scientific research and educational activities. Hubzero was originally created by researchers at Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) in conjunction with the National Science Foundation (NSF) who sponsored the Network for Computational Nanotechnology to support nanoHUB.org. The HUBzero platform currently supports over 40 hubs across a variety of disciplines, including cancer research, biofuels, climate modeling, water quality, and education
This project utilized data from the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), which was established by the NSF as a Science and Technology Center in 2005. CReSIS has a mission of developing new technologies and computer models to measure and predict the response of sea level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Their website offers enormous amounts of ice sheet data that includes thickness, dates, latitudes and longitudes. Also the website offers educational data sets which this project has utilized.
The goal of the project was to create a Hub that has the ability to access CReSiS educational data that has been stored on a server on the campus of Elizabeth City State University (ECSU). This Hub will allow students and educators to have access to this information for the use of education and scientific collaboration. HUBZero requires that the administer uses joomal, html, css and php code to create the template. HUBZero also uses an application called Raptture to create a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that is capable of deploying new tools without having to rewrite special code for the web. Tools in a hub have been created to be interactive, which means its capable of zooming in on a graph, rotating a module, probing surfaces of a 3D volume, without having to download the application to the client’s computer. Do to the fact that HubZero supports Grid Data management, it is capable of sending jobs off to TeraGrid, DiaGrid, and RedCloud to process the data faster and more efficiently. This Hub is the first science gateway implemented at Elizabeth City State University that is meant for the public. |
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