Carter Emmart – Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History
Carter Emmart – Director of Astrovisualization at the American Museum of Natural History
What is OpenSpace?
OpenSpace is a graphical visualization of the universe that shows a sum of its parts to produce a greater understanding of its layout, scale and behavior. It isa NASA supported open-source software, freely available combining observational data with simulations from astrophysics and flight dynamics of missions where available. New in OpenSpace are visualizations of the Sun-Earth interaction, the Webb Space Telescope operations, and embedding of Worldwide Telescope for zoom interaction of sky. Additionally the platform has a number of observational datasets which can be use to explore climate change.
Mark SubbaRao – Director of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Mark SubbaRao – Director of NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio
Science Visualization tools and resources from NASA
NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio (SVS) creates visualizations to communicate the story of NASA Science. Over its 30-year history the SVS has assembled the world’s largest repository of scientific visualizations. This presentation will give an overview of the resources the SVS has available for planetarians. We will also explore the design considerations that go into the production of new content, and future directions for the studio.
Dr. Kathy Mills – Research scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI)
Dr. Kathy Mills – Research scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI)
Sharing Local Climate Impacts in the Dome
Dr. Katherine Mills is a research scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute (GMRI) and leads the Integrated Systems Ecology Lab. Kathy’s lab investigates climate adaptation within marine ecosystems, with a particular focus on commercial fisheries and developing models to support adaptation planning by fishery participants, fishing communities and fishery managers. In her first-ever planetarium presentation, and with Carter Emmart piloting Open Space using both NASA and GMRI research data, Kathy will explore how the dome can be used to share evidence of local climate impacts — in this case, the impact of warming ocean temperature on Maine’s iconic crustacean, Homarus americanus.
Sean Birkel – Assistant Professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute
Sean Birkel – Assistant Professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute
Climate Reanalyzer as a Resource for Planetarian
Climate Reanalyzer is an online platform for visualizing an array of climate and weather models and datasets. The most visited page is Today’s Weather, which provides an overview of the current patterns of temperature, precipitation, and other measures across the globe. Other pages allow users to dig into climate trends over recent decades by plotting maps, time series, and correlations for different variables. There are also animated forecast maps. This talk explores the Climate Reanalyzer and how it could be used in planetaria.
Sean Birkel is an Assistant Professor at the University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute with a joint appointment to Cooperative Extension. He is also the Maine State Climatologist. In these roles he conducts climate research and outreach to Maine stakeholders. Since 2012, Sean has been developing Climate Reanalyzer, a data visualization website for reanalysis, climate, and weather forecast models with content for researchers, educators, and the general public.