August 11 , 2004: Version 2.0 of Aerosols Tool Ready for Distribution

Click HERE to visit the Aerosol Science Education Center
The Foundry has completed a major new version of its Aerosols Data Discovery Tool, integrating the latest Foundry code objects into this effort. The Aerosols Tool and its source code will be made available on a cost-recovery basis starting next week. the code will be installed into the Foundry CVS system at the NSDL and distributed with the tool and hundreds of Mbytes of global atmospheric aerosol data, together with the Aerosol Science Edducation Center learning site. The CD will be available from the ESIP Federation eCommerce site for $7—with no limit on educational duplication rights.

August 9 , 2004: DDTF Skills Workshop trained Teachers at DLESE
--NEXT STOP the ESIP Federation Meeting!

The DDTF will be training new members at the upcoming ESIP Federation Meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. Please check the ESIP Federation page for more information: http://www.esipfed.org/meeting/index.html
At the recent DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Science community meeting in Madison, Wisconsin, teachers got a hands-on experience of DDTF authoring capabilities. To view photos go for MORE>>

July 20, 2004: DDTF Technology tracking Elephants in Africa

With support from NASA and the help of the Federation for Earth Science, the DDTF is creating a new tool to help natural resource managers in five Central African countries track how elephants range. Using remotely sensed data from the Global Land Cover Facility at the University of Maryland, the DDTF will create a data-rich user application that shows how annual and seasonal variation in vegetation and other factors are related to the movement of elephants. Real-time data will be available to managers for the first time. The DDTF is also building a multi-lingual authoring capability to handle the translation of the user interface into French. All code and data resources will be available through the NSDL for reuse. This application will be complete by December 2004.

May 11, 2004: DDTF Demonstration applications On-line

Visit the Foundry's new DEMO Showcase to see how Foundry data rich authoring tools can put research-level user capabilities in the hands of your students. More demos will be made as new capabilities emerge.

NOTE: DEMO SHOWCASE BEING UPDATED-July-Dec. 2006)

April 20, 2004: RSI Inc. donates Run-time development license for Education

The New Media Studio was pleased to accept the gift of a new Educational, Non-Commercial, Unlimited Right to Distribute Software License for IDL 6.0 from RSI, Inc. [http://www.rsinc.com]. This new license will allow the DDTF to improve its authoring capabilities, including new capabilities to author Apple OS X applications with real data. This also marks a major private-public partnership for the National Science Digital Library.

April 16, 2004: World Ocean Atlas Viewer available NOW

The new DDTF World Ocean Atlas Viewer accesses the entire contents of the 1998 NOAA World Ocean Atlas database to a single CD-ROM. This database is searchable through two 3D-data interfaces. Created through a partnership between the DDTF, DLESE, and UC Santa Barbara, this product brings an ocean of information to high-schools and colleges.

BREAKING NEWS: The NSDL Core Integration effort will be distributing 5000 copies of the NSDL WOA Viewer on CD-ROM in 2004.

The CD-ROM is available on a cost-recovery basis through the education center and eCommerce site of the ESIP Federation. MORE>>

April 16, 2004: Science VIEW hands-on KIOSK PREMIERE
Berkeley, California: Lawrence Hall of Science

Hands-On UniverseTM-Real Astronomy Experience (HOU-RAE) exhibit uses FOUNDRY technology to create an interactive astronomy kiosk with remote telescope controls and real data manipulation. HOU is an educational program that enables students to investigate the universe while applying tools and concepts from science and technology.