[Viz] weather/posters/essays/plane reading

[Cathy Manduca]

Greetings-
We are looking forward to having you all here on Thursday!

I believe that you all have information on how to get from the airport to 
Carleton.  We are placing a copy of the file that tells who is riding with 
whom and when you all arrive on the logistics page of the website.  If you 
have any questions please contact Patt Germann (pgermann at serc.carleton.edu)

The weather forecast is for highs in the 30's and lows in the 20's.  I am 
sorry to disappoint everyone who wanted to experience Minnesota winter with 
highs below zero.  We have about 6 inches of snow--so it is a bit sloppy. 
The forecast for Saturday calls for "winter mix" which is the local lingo 
for mixed rain, sleet and snow.  So, shoes that are comfortable on wet and 
possible slightly slushy sidewalks are good; a coat is good; you can manage 
without a hat and mittens in this --but you'll be more comfortable walking 
around if you have them.  We have lots of cars to drive people back and 
forth if you are uncomfortable with either the cold or the snow.  A good 
strategy would be to find out if your driver from the airport is going to 
drive over for the opening session.  It is about 4 blocks from the hotel to 
the alumni guest house and there will be maps in your registration packet 
which will be waiting for you at the hotel.

Many thanks to the 20 of you who have submitted essays.  I hope that all of 
you will submit an essay before 2:00 tomorrow.  John will make the final 
pdf file for download at this time.   I suspect many particpants will read 
these on the plane on their way out--you don't want to be missing from 
these written introductions.  Something short is better than nothing at all!

With respect to posters.  Several of you have uploaded posters.  I've done 
printing for Peter Guth and Bob Filson.  If anyone else needs me to print 
an 11 x 17 poster please let me know.  You can upload your poster to the 
website anytime.  We will keep adding them to the participants page as we 
receive them.

For those of you who would like a recommendation for plane reading beyond 
the essays,  I will make a page on the website under research with some 
suggestions and their pdf files.  Look for that tomorrow.  While you are on 
the site, I hope you will check out the resources we have put together on 
research, creating visualizations, and for teaching.  These are still very 
much prototypes.  We hope that you will help us build these further both 
while you are at the workshop and after.  Your comments are welcome (please 
send them to me).  If you have ideas for visualizations, references or 
tools that we should feature, please submit them using the contribute 
resources pages.

Looking forward.  Don't hesitate to contact me if you have questions.

Cathy


Cathryn A. Manduca
Director, Science Education Resource Center
Carleton College
Northfield, MN  55057
507 646-7096
cmanduca at carleton.edu
serc.carleton.edu