Grant Project Summary:
Oregon State University
Spatial Technology Development and Educational Modules for the Fagatele
Bay NMS
March 2003 to September 2006
Project Summary
The Oregon State University Department of Geosciences and the NOAA Coastal Services Center completed a habitat project funded as a cooperative grant agreement to provide coastal managers in American Somoa with information and tools to integrate physical and ecological components into habitat protection and management, and in turn integrate habitat characterization into K-16 and general public education. While incorporating concepts of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure, this project developed a new ArcIMS component to the Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary, a new bibliographic database in Oracle and search interface, and educational modules for K-16 students and teachers.
NOAA Coastal Services Center's
Role
The NOAA Coastal Services Center 1) designed, implemented, and hosted the server for an ArcIMS site to be folded into the expanded Fagatele Bay National Marine Sanctuary GIS Web site; 2) developed the bibliographic database in both stand-alone text search mode and search by location mode via ArcIMS; 3) developed an on-line benthic habitat characterization training tool using bathymetric, backscatter, and photographic data provided by the cooperators; and 4) compiled final educational modules into CD-ROMs.
Grantee Overview
The Oregon
State University Department of Geosciences is committed to education
of professional geographers and geologists, contribution to basic university
education in support of other disciplines, advancement of research in geography
and geology, and to community outreach. The department makes unique contributions
to the study of natural resources through research and teaching in earth
resources and through the study of natural hazards. The department includes
20 regular faculty, 8 researchers, 90 graduate students, and 150 undergraduate
students. The department houses both a geology and a geography program,
which merge in broad areas relating to surficial processes, remote sensing,
earth resources, and the application of computers to natural and man-made
phenomena.
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