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ABSTRACT
STEPS OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
CReSIS
CERSER
POLAR GRID
FUTURE WORK
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Ask a Question: The scientific method starts when you ask a
question about something that you observe: How, What,
When, Who, Which, Why, or Where?
And, in order for the scientific method to answer the
question it must be about something that you can measure,
preferably with a number.
The goal of the ECSU Center of Excellence in Remote
Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) is to develop and
implement innovative and relevant research collaborations
focused on ice sheet, coastal, ocean, and marine research.
CERSER is also the home of the IEEE-Geoscience and
Remote Sensing Society Eastern North Carolina Chapter
#03181 and Student Chapter Branch #66221.
Polar Grid is a National Science Foundation Major Research
Instrumentation funded partnership of Indiana University
and Elizabeth City State University. The partnership goal is
to acquire and deploy the computing infrastructure needed
to investigate the urgent problems in glacial melting. Polar
Grid’s major components and concepts of operation are
depicted in the diagram below and detailed at
http://www.polargrid.org.
Use this section to provide recommendations to researchers
who will follow behind you with work based on your
project.
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place your entire report on the poster. This is a
place to provide highlights of your research.
Emphasize the visuals developed during your
research and provide URLs for further reading.
The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a
Science and Technology Center established by the National
Science Foundation (NSF) in 2005, with the mission of
developing new technologies and computer models to
measure and predict the response of sea level change to
the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
The NSF’s Science and Technology Center (STC) program
combines the efforts of scientists and engineers to respond
to problems of global significance, supporting the intense,
sustained, collaborative work that is required to achieve
progress in these areas. CReSIS provides students and
faculty with opportunities to pursue exciting research in a
variety of disciplines; to collaborate with world-class
scientists and engineers in the US and abroad; and to make
meaningful contributions to the ongoing, urgent work of
addressing the impact of climate change.
IMAGES
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meaningful to illustrate your research. Do not use visuals
that are not part of the research.
SECTIONS
Include standard Scientific Method procedure sections
where able:
1. Question
2. Research
3. Hypothesis
4. Experiment (Method)
5. Data Analyzed
6. Conclusion
7. Results
8. Future Work
9. Acknowledgements
10. References
Do Background Research: Rather than starting from scratch
in putting together a plan for answering your question, you
want to be a savvy scientist using library and Internet
research to help you find the best way to do things and
insure that you don't repeat mistakes from the past.
Construct a Hypothesis: A hypothesis is an educated guess
about how things work:
"If _____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will
happen."
You must state your hypothesis in a way that you can easily
measure, and of course, your hypothesis should be
constructed in a way to help you answer your original
question.
Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment: Your
experiment tests whether your hypothesis is true or false. It
is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You
conduct a fair test by making sure that you change only one
factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same.
The University of Kansas serves as the lead institution for
CReSIS, which is comprised of six additional partner
institutions: Elizabeth City State University, Indiana
University, University of Washington, The Pennsylvania
State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the
Association of Computer and Information Science
Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions. In
addition to this core group, CReSIS collaborates with several
international institutions and industry partners.
The CERSER Laboratory consists of computer workstations
on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows platforms; remote
storage areas of polar data; servers including a local web
server and file server. Also available is an undergraduate
research lab containing workstations configured to allow
the use of three separate operating systems depending on
faculty or student needs.
CERSER operates a Sea Pro Model 210 research vessel with
UHF Radio, Raytheon 300 GPS and Raytheon 365 Depth
Finder. The vessel utilizes an Imagenex SportScan dual
channel, high-resolution, digital sidescan sonar with a 23
meter tow cable.
For land research, CERSER utilizes a SIR-3000 Ground
Penetrating Radar by Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. The
SIR-3000 is a small, lightweight system designed for single
user operation and incorporates advanced signal processing
and display capability for in-the-field 3D imaging. Multiple
GPS devices are also available for hands-on training.
ECSU
ECSU is working to create a large-scale distributed
computing system to aide in the processing of data
collected during polar expeditions. In October of 2008 the
initial 64-node cluster was delivered to ECSU in preparation
for the final ~600-node cluster which is scheduled for 2010.
This cluster will be housed in the E.V. Wilkins Academic
Computing Center.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
It is always a good idea to acknowledge those who have
assisted you in completing this research. Consider who Is
paying for your internship, who is providing you with
information and tools, and any other parties that may have
assisted you.
At that time ECSU will be the first Minority Serving
Institution (MSI) to house a cluster capable of acceptance
into the national TeraGrid Project. The Polar Grid lab will be
the center of operations related to the use and support of
that cluster and will grow as new projects, grants, and
individuals utilize the cluster through cyberinfrastructure.
You should also repeat your experiments several times to
make sure that the first results weren't just an accident.
Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion: Once your
experiment is complete, you collect your measurements
and analyze them to see if your hypothesis is true or false.
Scientists often find that their hypothesis was false, and in
such cases they will construct a new hypothesis starting the
entire process of the scientific method over again. Even if
they find that their hypothesis was true, they may want to
test it again in a new way.
Communicate Your Results: To complete your science fair
project you will communicate your results to others in a
final report and/or a display board. Professional scientists
do almost exactly the same thing by publishing their final
report in a scientific journal or by presenting their results on
a poster at a scientific meeting.
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