ITR: Collaborative Research: Enhancing education through seamless access to seismological data

全球地震探测项目（GEE项目）旨在为K-16教育和向公众推广提供地震数据档案。GEE项目将利用正在为地震学研究社区开发的IT基础设施，以各种有用的格式和场所提供接近实时的地震数据，以便最大限度地提高这些数据对教育界的价值。利用对自然环境的近实时观测对地球科学教育和公众来说是一个令人兴奋的新前沿。利用研究型数据源的一个主要挑战是有效地将其封装成一种容易被感兴趣但没有经验的学习者理解和操作的形式。GEE项目的主要产品将是：(1)快速地震观测者（REV）。为好奇心驱使的用户和教育工作者提供网络浏览器访问，寻求抓住与有新闻价值的地震有关的“教育时刻”；(2)全球地震探测器（GEE）。增强了现有的独立应用程序，允许比REV更灵活地探索地震数据，但足够相似，允许感兴趣的用户轻松地在GEE和REV之间切换；模块创建工具包（MCK）。作为教育软件领域的一个独特工具，MCK将允许个别教育工作者轻松地创建和分享结构化的学习模块，这些模块的灵感来自于他们自己对用GEE传达教育概念的最佳方式的想法。该项目是南卡罗来纳大学（USC）、UCAR（大学大气研究公司）的DPC（地球系统教育数字图书馆）项目中心（DPC）和IRIS（地震学联合研究机构）之间的合作成果。它利用这三个机构最近的经验和发展来创建一个集成的It框架，以提供对全球地震数据的广泛访问。

The Global Earthquake Exploration Project (Project GEE) seeks to tap into an archive of seismological data for K-16 education and outreach to the general public. Project GEE will capitalize on an IT infrastructure being developed for the research seismology community to deliver near real-time earthquake data in a variety of useful formats and venues in order to maximize this data's value to the education community. Utilization of near-real time observations of our natural environment is an exciting new frontier for Earth science education and the general public. A major challenge of utilizing research-oriented data sources is effectively encapsulating it in a form that is easily understood and manipulated by interested, but inexperienced learners. Project GEE's primary products will be: (1) The Rapid Earthquake Viewers (REV). Web browser access for curiosity driven users and educators seeking to seize "teachable moments" associated with newsworthy earthquakes; (2) The Global Earthquake Explorer (GEE). Enhancement of an existing standalone application that allows for more flexible exploration of earthquake data than REV, but is sufficiently similar to allow interested users to easily move between GEE and REV; (3) The Module Creation Kit (MCK). A unique tool in the educational software arena, the MCK will allow individual educators to easily create and share structured learning modules inspired by their own ideas about the best way to convey educational concepts with GEE. This project is a collaborative effort between the University of South Carolina (USC), the DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) Program Center (DPC) at UCAR (University Corporation for Atmospheric Research), and IRIS (Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology). It leverages recent experiences and developments at these three institutions to create an integrated IT framework to provide broad access to global earthquake data.