Cohort II Interdisciplinary Project Teams

The ITS Center promotes the concept of a team experience. Teams feature researchers, educators, master teachers and students from a vast array of disciplines collaborating on the use of information technology to transfer current science research into the classroom.

Deep Space and Deep Time in Plants: Sharing Research in Genomics and Cellular Imaging

Participants are introduced to new visualization and imaging tools as well as to image, video, and genomics databases for analyzing biological information. Activities engage teachers and students in advanced, open source image processing to analyze & visualize archived video datasets from scientists in the US, UK, and France.

Education

Energy Equilibrium, Conservation, & Conversion in Material Science

This project team focuses on energy and the factors that affect equilibrium, conservation and conversion – specifically looking at energy in relation to the properties of materials. Participants use modeling tools to investigate the use of polymers, composites, metals, and ceramics in building construction and the impact of these materials on energy transfer and energy-effective building design.

Landscape Ecology and Conservation

Participants in this project team investigate recent developments in landscape ecology, spatial statistics, remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) that have provided new paradigms and powerful tools for addressing ecological issues over dynamic heterogeneous landscapes at multiple scales.

Molecular View of the Environment: Air, Land, and Water

Using the environment as a contextual setting for molecules, this project team explores the use of information technology to supplement basic understanding of fundamental scientific principles in chemistry, physics, and earth science. Project team members use complex data sets to investigate, at the molecular level, contemporary problems related to air, land, and water.

Ocean Drilling Program: Understanding Earth's Natural Processes

The Ocean Drilling Program is an international scientific research program funded by 22 institutions, including the National Science Foundation. In this project, participants use scientific inquiry and data from ODP's deep-sea core and bore hole samples to explore the fundamentals of Earth's natural processes associated with the climate system, sea level, and the sediment cycle.

Sustainable Coastal Margins (SCM-ITS)

The Sustainable Coastal Margins Program (SCMP) is an interdisciplinary program focused on issues surrounding the coastal margin of the Gulf of Mexico. This project team uses information technology to connect to SCMP's research in order to enhance public understanding of interdisciplinary environmental problems of the Texas Gulf Coast.

Visualizing Biodiversity

This project team uses information technology to analyze data archived in natural history collections around the world to apply integrative approaches to bio-complexity studies that ask questions about how ecological, economic, and social processes operating at different spatial-temporal scales influence maintenance of biodiversity and natural resources.

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