[Viz] Visualization in the Geosciences- GSA session

[cmanduca at carleton.edu]

Greetings-
Sarah Titus, Eric Horsman and I have organized a session for the upcoming 
GSA meeting in Philadelphia (abstract deadline July 11).  We hope that many 
of you will find this of interest and submit abstracts related to your work 
in the area.  Cognitive scientists living near Philly--this is a great 
opportunity to see geologists engaged in presenting their highly visual, 
spatial work and to learn more about how these skills are used in field 
based research.

If you would like to submit an abstract for the session, please use the GSA 
website <http://www.geosociety.org/meetings/2006/abstracts.htm> on or 
before July 11.  It gives you a chance to select which session you would 
like to submit to, we are session T42.

I hope this is of interest and that at least those of you in Philly will be 
interested.  this is the best I can do at bringing geoscientists to you :).

Cathy

Visualization in the Geosciences
Sarah Titus, Eric Horsman, Cathryn Manduca

Visualizing multidimensional data lies at the heart of geoscience. Yet many 
students have difficulty developing the complex three-dimensional 
visualization skills necessary to succeed in the geosciences. Currently, 
powerful new tools are revolutionizing the way we collect, display, and 
interact with geoscience data. At the same time, cognitive science is 
shedding new light on the development of spatial cognitive skills. This 
session will bring together papers describing new visualization methods and 
tools and their use in geoscience research and education, with papers 
describing our growing understanding of the development of spatial skills. 
We invite papers that address all aspects of visualization, from both the 
geoscience and cognitive science perspectives, in geoscience research and 
education.

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