Outstanding Project Award Winners
2007 | 3-D Avatar-Based, Virtual World Learning in a Second Life Educational Metaverse
Gregory Möller, , University of Idaho
2006 | Using Digital Imaging and GPS/GIS Technologies to Map Biodiversity Patterns in Terrestrial and Aquatic Habitats
Joel Elliott, University of Puget Sound
The project provided students and faculty with an exciting opportunity to utilize digital imaging, global positioning (GPS), and global information (GIS) technologies to explore biodiversity patterns in the Puget Sound region. Information generated by the project will be used to develop biodiversity maps and will be made available to a wide audience on the internet as part of the University of Puget Sound’s Digital Asset Management Program. The scientific information gathered is useful to ecologists, government agencies, community groups, and environmental organizations when they make important decisions on restoration and development issues. A complete description of the project is available on the Web.
View the press release here.
2005 | The Nolli Map Project
James Tice, University of Oregon
The purpose of the project was to use a unique historic document, the 1748 Nolli map, to create a highly interactive teaching tool for the study of the city of Rome. The Nolli map web site includes a centralized database that supports the compilation and digitization of geospatial data by distributed authors. Initially used for architectural studies, the web site can be used by a wide variety of Rome scholars and serves as a model for collaborative investigations of other ancient urban centers.