Garbage patches across the oceans visualization experiment. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up. In a visual representation experiment of the garbage patches around the worlds oceans, we can see just how seriously weve affected our oceans through big ag practices, littering, corporate disregard, and additional environmentally unfriendly practices which affect mother natures womb. Visualizations by greg shirah and horace mitchell released on august 10, 2015. We wanted to see if we could visualize the socalled ocean garbage patches. Garbage patch experiment drifters and model this modeled experiment was conducted to see if it was possible to visualize the socalled ocean garbage patches. The team started the experiment with noaas data from floating, scientific buoys, distributed across the oceans for the last 35 years. This gallery was created for earth science week 2015 and beyond. Visualization of tumors and metastases in live animals.
It includes a quick start guide for educators and firsthand stories blogs for learners of all ages by nasa visualizers, scientists and educators. It begins with data from floating, scientific buoys that noaa has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35year represented as white dots. Nasa s data visualization studio has created a series of animations of the socalled ocean garbage patches. Greg shirah and horace mitchell have published their garbage patch visualization experiment results online on august 10, 2015, in the nasas scientific visualization studio. Just how many garbage patches are there in our oceans. They used data collected by floating, scientific buoys that noaa has been deploying for the past 35 years. This sobering video was produced by nasas data visualization studios. Farmingtonfarmington hills, mi the society of professional journalists recognizes the best collegiate journalism in. Nasas ocean garbage patch visualization experiment the.
The best data visualizations of the year are absolutely. The observed noaa drifters and the ecco2 particle simulation both appear to evolve towards the garbage patches. The resultant videos dramatically illustrate how large garbage patches develop in the ocean. Xu thought it would be a great opportunity to collaborate. Abstract this report describes the flow visualization facility at nasa dryden flight research center, edwards, california. Structural comparison of protein kinase a pka with protein kinase g pkg gpm gets a ton of kilo. We start with data from floating, scientific buoys that noaa has been distributing in the oceans for the last 35year represented here as white dots. Visualization of tumors and metastases in live animals with bacteria and vaccinia virus encoding lightemitting proteins. Nasa mapped the start point and movement of buoys over their lifetime based on historical data.
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