ARCSS-PP: The Outreach Effort

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ARCSS-PP The Outreach Effort

• From the proposal
• UW-based web site
• Interaction with modelers (J. Zhang, others)
• The cartoon

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(1) The website
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The website Table of Contents
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The website Sample Graphics
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The website Data Downloading
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(2) Interaction with modelers Arctic
Biology/Ice/Ocean Modeling and Assimilation
System (BIOMAS) J. Zhang M. Steele (UW), Y.
Spitz L. Berline (OSU), C. Ashjian (WHOI), R.
Campbell (URI)

• Sea ice TED thickness distribution,
  dynamics, thermo
• Ocean POP mean 22 km resol., 30 levels
• Biology
• Initially NPZD model only on Arctic Basin
• Later more biological compartments on BIOMAS
  domain
• Time periods (i) 1979-present, (ii) projections

Levels (m) 5 10 15 20 25 30 36 42 50 59
69 80 98125
NP
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(3) The cartoon Pat the Plankton!
Michael Steele Polar Science Center /
APL University of Washington
http//psc.apl.washington.edu
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The cartoon Proposal text

• For this proposal, we plan to hire an animation
  undergraduate student from the UWs Center for
  Digital Art and Experimental Media to produce a
  2.5 - 3 minute animation under staff guidance in
  APLs Multimedia Laboratory for project
  coordination and script writing. The narrator
  will be Pat the Plankton, who will discuss the
  controls of PP in the AO, i.e. light (snow/ice,
  clouds, ocean stratification) and nutrients, and
  how this might change in future climate
  scenarios.
• The project will begin at the Year 2 Seattle PI
  meeting (NOW!) and end in Year 3. This animation
  will be accessible at the websites of APL, BLOS
  (www.bigelow.org), as part of its DLESE-linked
  educational products and linked to the BLOS
  web-based modules for Phytopia, a
  teacher-acclaimed CD-ROM teaching tool, and ASLO
  (http//www.aslo.org/education/ teaching.html).

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The cartoon Nitty gritty

• Cartoon Qs
• What are the controls?
• Is it a documentary (possibly narrated by Pat as
  s/he interviews other plankton)?
• Or is it a story (wherein Pat has an adventure
  of some kind, illustrating life under the sea
  ice)?
• Distribution Qs
• How will this REALLY be used, i.e., WHO IS OUR
  AUDIENCE?