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Presentation Abstracts Full Schedule
Davis Concert Hall |
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- 10:30 am Distance Education at the Speed of Light
- Curt Madison, Chris Lott, Joshua Kugler, Bob Briggs, Carol Gering, Sage Adams, Christen Bouffard, Heidi Olson, Rosie Rosenberger
Center for Distance Education, College of Rural and Community Development
- Distance education has come to mean innovation in the student experience. More and more tools are available to course designers as they seek to provide the most engaging learning environments. This presentation will join three aspects of a good course. Students will see a dynamic presentation, a class discussion space, and a group decision space all at the same time.
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- 11:10 am Collaborative Visualizations for Planetaria
- Jon Genetti
- UAF, Computer Science Department
- 474-5737
- I will give an overview of a recent visualization of the aurora borealis produced for the Hayden Planetarium in New York. There, 400+ viewers get to see imagery containing 9+ million pixels displayed on a 67-foot dome. This resolution results in space shows with unprecedented detail and realism. It also comes at a high cost - supercomputers are needed to generate both the huge models required and the high-resolution images from those models. Since the planetarium, supercomputer(s) and collaborators are located around the world, moving data and images around becomes a big bottleneck. I will discuss these bottlenecks and point out how an improved network would have sped up the show development schedule and produced a superior final product.
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- 11:30 am What to do with Internet2: Arts and Humanities Applications
- Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager, Arts and Humanities
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- 4:00 pm Concert: Performance Beyond Place: Music and Dancers on Internet2
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- Brian Shepard, USC; Scott Deal, UAF; New World Symphony String Quartet, Miami, FL; Ian Bousfield, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Veronika Krausas, University of Southern California; Robert Drummond, Los Angeles, CA; Morris Palter, San Diego, CA
- 474-1873
- The concert will be a music demonstration and performance of several world premieres. Sites participating will include the Lincoln Theater, home of the New World Symphony in Miami Beach, Florida, and the University of Southern California. The concert will be hosted by Dr. Brian Shepard, Assistant Professor of Music Technology at the University of Southern California.
The presentation will include a master class delivered from the Lincoln Theater between Ian Bousfield, the Principal Trombonist of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and UAF brass instrument music majors. Second will be the world premiere of Il sole e l'altre stelle by Veronika Krausas, faculty composer at the USC Thornton School of Music. A string quartet comprised of members of the New World Symphony will perform the work in Miami Beach, and a modern dancer will perform to the music at the University of Southern California, and the audience will be in Fairbanks at UAF. Finishing out the concert will be the world premiere of Coccolithophore, for two percussionists and electronics composed by UAF Music Professor Scott Deal. The piece will be performed by Deal and San Diego Percussionist Morris Palter. Composed specifically for performance on the Internet, Palter will be in Los Angeles and Deal will be onstage in Fairbanks.
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Fine Arts 301 |
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- 10:30 am Big Data
- Gregory Newby
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center , UAF
- 450-8663
- On the Internet, "big" is a growing target. Simulations might produce data sets of hundreds of gigabytes per run, while astronomy and high-energy physics can produce terabytes in a single day. How can scientists share all of these data, and make use of them? This talk will look at the scope of data exchange and current best-of-breed tools for sharing data across the Internet. Data sharing and mirroring tools such as the Storage Resource Broker will be described, and formal and informal data grids will be analyzed. Methods for getting data in and out of large and small systems, and their limitations, will be compared.
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- 10:50 am Web2 Collaborative Applications
- Ilana Kingsley
- Rasmuson Library, UAF
- 474-7518
- Web2 applications offer an array of easy-to-use collaborative tools. During this presentation, I’ll give an overview of mainstream collaborative Web2 applications, such as wikis, forums, blogs, social bookmarking, and ‘integrated’ content management systems (CMS), and syndication (RSS).
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- 11:10 am GINA: Satellite Images in Real-time for Alaska
- Tom Heinrichs
- Geophysical Institute, UAF
- 474-6897
- The UAF Geographic Information Network of Alaska (GINA) delivers data in real time to operational users in Alaska. Two of GINA's emergency response users are the Alaska Fire Service and the Alaska Volcano observatory. The Internet2 is a vital piece of infrastructure enabling GINA to support these agencies as they fight wildfires and monitor and track volcanic eruptions in Alaska. GINA's image delivery system, SwathViewer, will be demonstrated, and case studies of imagery in use for wildfire fighting and volcanic eruption monitoring presented.
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- 11:30 am English Tools
- Mary Earp
- Tanana Valley Campus, University of Alaska
- 455-2860
- We will demonstrate the use of online java tools that allow students to manipulate words and sentence structures for easier internalization of basic English concepts. Many web-based interactive resources can also improve skills in the concept areas. Business students and returning students must show competency in writing, grammar, and mechanics. Teaching to their learning styles through Internet use allows them to improve their English abilities and their application of those skills. They are able to access that information at their convenience. This demonstration will include the java tools, online resources, and relevant handouts.
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- 1:45 pm Natural Resource Management Based on High Quality Digital Data
- Falk Huettmann
- UAF Institute of Arctic Biology, Department of Biology and Wildlife
- 474-7882
- Alaska has a unique and precious wildlife and habitat wilderness upon which most Alaskan communities depend. Sophisticated management and compatibly, linked with ongoing programs elsewhere, are required. I will discuss key concepts of digital data for Alaska, such as data sets relevant to wildlife & habitat management, data sharing, and spatial data quality, and how they all link with policy and sustainable and cost-efficient natural resource management. I show how predictive spatial GIS modeling makes use of these concepts and is beneficial to the natural resources
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- 2:05 pm Remote data replication and service activities at ARSC
- Gene McGill
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, UAF
- 450-8633
- In order to meet the data availability and disaster recovery requirements of the Department of Defense, ARSC, working with partner sites in the High Performance Computing Modernization Program, has developed procedures that make a remote copy of DOD-sponsored data held at ARSC. The remote copy of data is made at a remote location using an OC-12 link. This paper will describe software, procedures and network technology used to replicate the data at the remote location. It will also describe some other non-DOD related initiatives ARSC is exploring.
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- 2:25 pm Directing College Shows in the XXI century
- Anatoly Antohin
- Theatre UAF,
- 455-6149.
- The pre-production period for a show extends itself to a year and longer. Web pages with notes and analysis, and containing the concept and research for the play, serve as dramaturgical tools for cast, crew and the cyber theatre community. In addition to a redefined pre-production, there is a new component -- the post-production, which is open-ended. Using the web and Internet redefines a college production, making it truly educational.
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- 2:45 pm Alaska's Digital Archives
- Bob Forshaw
- Rasmuson Library, UAF
- 474-7921
- Alaska’s Digital Archives is a fully searchable database of archival and museum objects presented in a multimedia format. We currently have over 18,000 historic photographs, documents, rare maps, oral histories, video clips, museum objects and educational videos in our database which have been contributed from UAF, UAA, Alaska State Library, Alaska State Museums, Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Seward Community Library and UA Museum of the North. This project brings together many statewide research institutions and provides their data to the public in a quick and easy to use format. (http://vilda.alaska.edu).
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- 3:05 pm Forestry Extension Outreach
- Robert Wheeler
- Cooperative Extension Service
- 474-6356
- The CES is in the process of developing a program with the University of Washington and Washington State University utilizing steaming video segments to highlight forestry extension outreach. This interactive program involves viewers in a process of viewing and decision making that is intended to provide an insightful education experience with the web-based video. Although we are only in the process of development of this extension tool we are quite excited about its potential in the extension arena.
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Fine Arts McGown Room |
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- 10:30 am Rural Telehealth Training in Behavioral Health: The UA Clinical Community Psychology Ph.D. Program
- Catherine Koverola
- Psychology Department, UAF
- 474-2614
- The University of Alaska Fairbanks has developed a continuum of training programs in behavioral health education that prepare providers to meet the pressing needs facing our state. These educational programs span certificate through doctoral training. The new PhD Program in Clinical-Community Psychology with a Rural, Indigenous Emphasis that is co-sponsored by the Departments of Psychology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Alaska Anchorage is the capstone of these programs.
The doctoral program is on the forefront of creative and enriching knowledge dissemination that is locally relevant; focused on public service; and concerned with acknowledging, fostering, and celebrating diversity. The program has many unique features, including use of the first High Definition videoconferencing technology available anywhere in the world. The program prepares doctoral level providers equipped to provide leadership in the delivery of tele health in rural frontier settings
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- 10:50 am Digital Audio Archives for Alaska Native languages
- Gary Holton
- Alaska Native Language Center
- 474-6585
- The rich cultural heritage of Alaska is reflected in its twenty Native languages, each of which provides unique insight into the human landscape of the state. The increasing availability of digital audio technology and broadband access has made possible new ways of preserving and providing access to text and audio records of Alaska Native languages. This presentation demonstrates the Dena’ina Qenaga Digital Archive, a pilot project which leverages Internet technology to allow historic audio recordings to be repurposed for the teaching, learning, and appreciation of this endangered Athabascan language.
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- 11:10 am Project Jukebox: Oral History Wisdom on the Web
- Karen Brewster
- Oral History Program, Rasmuson Library, UAF
- 474-6672
- Since the mid-1980s, Project Jukebox has been a leader in creating digital access to oral history recordings and integrating them with photographs, transcripts and maps to provide broad contextual content. We currently have 28 Jukeboxes on-line at www.uaf.edu/library/jukebox. This presentation will highlight our efforts to get material on-line, how our projects are being used for research and education, the importance of this material being available on the Internet, and the collaborative work we have undertaken with communities and people in rural Alaska.
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- 11:30 am Arctos: A Multi-Institutional Specimen Database for Biolgical Collections
- Gordon H. Jarrell
- University of Alaska Museum of the North
- 474-6946
- The Museum of the North is involved in broad efforts to distribute data from scientific collections on the Internet. We can reciprocally link DNA sequences at NIH's GenBank to the specimens that they came from. We are running ColdFusion over Oracle, so the system is accessed by both the public and operators using any current web browser. Records can be passed back and forth to BerkeleyMapper, a GIS application at UC that pulls layers from Google and other sources. The system also communicates with federated portals such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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- 1:45 pm Videoconferencing Applications In the Arts and Humanities
- Ann Doyle, Internet2 Program Manager, Arts and Humanities
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- 2:05 pm Research Channel Presentation
- Amy Philipson, Executive Director, Research Channel
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- 2:25 pm Internet2 K-20 Initiative
- Louis Fox, Vice Provost, Educational Partnerships and Learning Technology, University of Washington
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- 2:25 pm Open Discussion
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Discovery Lab |
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- 10:30 am Creating Telematic Performances
- Jimmy Miklavcic, University of Utah Center for High Performance Computing; ART GRID UAF Telematic Ensemble; Scott Deal
- Music Department, UAF
- 474-1873
- Telematic art is the multi-disciplinary, multi-media presentation of live performances. The UAF Telematic ensemble explores this medium in cooperation with a web collective known as ART GRID, a consortium of researchers and teachers in universities in North America. Scott Deal (Music) Miho Aoki (Computer Art) and Carrie Baker (Theater) participate in the group with students in their respective disciplines. Jimmy Miklavcic, University of Utah, will present an open rehearsal of Interplay: Dancing on the Banks of Packet Creek, a performance collaboration between musicians, dancers, artists, and technicians from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, University of Utah, Ryerson University, Boston University, and University of Maryland.
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- 11:10 am Arctic Microscope
- Ken Severin
- UAF Advanced Instrumentation Lab
- A scanning electron microscope (SEM) views small objects at very high magnification. The UAF Advanced Instrumentation Laboratory (AIL), in conjunction with ARSC and the UA Museum of the North, is developing a project where the AIL Environmental SEM (ESEM) can be remotely controlled so that more people at a distant location can have direct access to this expensive and exciting instrument. The ESEM is particularly suited for this type of work, as specimens need virtually no preparation and in situ experiments can be performed on the specimens. This presentation will be a demonstration of how the ESEM can be controlled from a remote location.
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- 1:45 pm Global Cultural Collaborations
- Miho Aoki, Yoko Collier-Sanuki, UAF; Yuri Nishihori, Yuichi Yamamoto, Hokkaido University; Nozomu Nishinaga, Kenji Tanaka, Tokifumi Takemoto, NICT; Keizo Nagaoka, Waseda University; Masahiro Harada, Tokyo Electron
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, UAF
- 474-5425
- This presentation will discuss collaboration within university foreign language classes via high speed Internet. This experiment was conducted between University of Alaska Fairbanks (US)’s Japanese culture class and Hokkaido University (Japan)’s English language class in the Spring 2005 semester. The presentation will show an example that utilized high definition video to connect multiple locations and regular Internet communications, such as chat rooms, simultaneously for class discussions and cultural demonstrations in a classroom setting.
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- 2:25 pm Web-based Tsunami Computational Portal
- Tom Logan
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, UAF
- 450-8624
- ARSC, in collaboration with UAF, Oregon State University and Cornell University, are developing a computational portal for tsunami modeling. The web-based portal allows researchers to utilize HPC resources at ARSC to execute tsunami models using several well-established codes. The project will allow easier access to models for researchers, comparison of different models for validation purposes, and development of a database of tsunami modeling results.
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- 2:45 pm Internet-based Forecast of the Space Weather
- Sergei Maurits, Anton Kulchitsky
- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center, UAF
- 450-8697
- The UAF Eulerian Parallel Polar Ionosphere Model was applied for continuous forecasting of the Space Weather at the WWW-site http://www.arsc.edu/SpaceWeather. This Internet-based operation utilizes input data from NOAA on-line depositories and from on-line sites of other collaborators, performs real-time computations and visualizations, and immediately disseminates the simulation results to the users. This operation mode, which can be described as a remote computational steering, takes full advantage of new possibilities of the high speed Internet. Significant variability of the terrestrial Space Weather is matched in this approach by its real-time adaptive capabilities.
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Poster Session - Great Hall - Authors will be preseting their posters from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. |
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- A Digital Template for Making Field Survey Data Globally Available to the Research Management Community
- Susan Oehlers and Falk Huettmann
- Institute of Arctic Biology, UAF, Department of Biology and Wildlife, Yakutat Ranger District
- 474-7882
- We present findings to quantify the density and distribution of Marbled (Brachyramphus marmoratus) and Kittlitz’s Murrelets (B. brevirostris). Fieldwork data are transferred from notebooks into a digital database, and then analysed with DISTANCE Sampling in order to obtain detectabilities, confidence intervals and statistically-sound correction factors. Results are stored as a GIS shapefile layer. These data and their processing steps are further described with FGDC NBII Metadata and are available at the University of Alaska Fairbanks and USGS. The presented steps can be used as a general and easy-to-implement template for most field projects.
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- Beaufort Cabled Seafloor Observatory
- Richard Machida
- Office of Information Technology, UAF PO 7700, 233 Bunnell, UAF, Fairbanks, AK 99775
- 474-7102
- The scientific potential of a Beaufort Cabled Seafloor Observatory was explored by participants of a U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded open workshop, “Science and Education Objectives for a Seafloor Cabled Observatory on the Beaufort Shelf, Alaska,” held last year.
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- MyUA Portal
- Heather Havel
- Department of Computing and Communications, UAF
- 474-2407
- MyUA is the University of Alaska web portal. It is a customized website that offers students, faculty and staff a collection of online resources and features that can be accessed from inside and outside the university. The portal provides access to student, faculty and staff online services including UAOnline, Blackboard, a calendar system, e-mail, university announcements, etc. Only one User ID and password is needed to access registration and employee services, among many other resources. It can be customized by the user.
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- PT3: Preparing Tomorrow's Teachers to use Technology
- Maria Reyes
- PT3 Program, School of Education, UAF
- 474-6239
- This poster will provide an overview of the PT3 Program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. It will highlight PT3's role in delivering technology equipment and on-site professional development workshops for educators and students in rural Alaskan schools and improving the technology skills of K-12 faculty and staff in rural Alaskan schools.
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- Skype: Phone-like Connection Over Internet
- Dana Truffer Moudry
- Geophysical Institute, UAF, Fairbanks, AK 99775
- 474-6639
- Skype is a free software program that allows phone-like connections either between two computers that are connected to a network (free of charge), or via a computer and a phone (some charge applies). This connection can be either only audio, or if one or both of the parties have a small webcam, the connection can include video. My colleague recently relocated to Europe and we use this means to communicate.
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