The following have contributed to the development
of the Geology Explorer in some capacity or other.
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Faculty
- Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Geosciences, NDSU
- Dr. Donald Schwert, Geosciences, NDSU
- Dr. Brian M. Slator, Computer Science, NDSU
Collaborators
- Dr. Paul Juell, Computer Science, NDSU
- Dr. Phil McClean, Plant Sciences, NDSU
- Dr. Alan White, Botany/Biology, NDSU
- Dr. Richard Beckwith, Intel Corp.
- Harold Henry Chaput, Computer Science, UT-Austin
- Dr. Clark Markell, Earth Science, MSU
- Dr. Rose McKenney, Earth Science, MSU
Graphics
- Acey Olson (Rendered Landscapes)
- Rebecca Potter (Rendered Images, Icons, and Landscapes)
- Dan Reetz (Graphic and Audio Artist)
- Dr. Don Schwert (Landscape Photographs)
- Shannon Tomac (Landscapes, Icons, Images, & Comic Book)
- Daniel Turany (Rock/Mineral Photographs)
Staff
- Nem Schlecht
- Mark Tinguely
Students
Graduate Research Assistants:
- Otto Borchert; Software tutors, Java client development
- Bob Cosmano; Makes Java Go, Moral Support
- Krista Dauner; Tutoring Scripts
- Rahul Devabhaktuni; Hydrology (Water) on Oit
- Kuo-Di Jian; Java Tool Integration
- Yongxin "George" Jia; Java/LambdaMOO Hierarchy Tool
- Guy Hokanson; Software tutors, dynamic HTML
- Bhaskar Marthi; Instrument verbs
- Vidyalatha Nagareddy; Java/LambdaMOO Entity Tool
- Aparna Nandula; Geo-Physics Simulation
- Shanhong Wu; Java3D
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Undergraduate Research and Independent Study Students:
- Bryan Bandli; Assessment and Evaluation
- John Bauer; Java Client (GUMI-bare and GUMI-game) Design and Implementation, Graphical Directive Protocol
- Chris Fish; Endgame Design and Implementation
- Julia Karst-Gray; Geologic & Quality evaluation
- Lucas Koehntop; Java consulting
- Ned Kruger; Assessment and Evaluation
- Acey Olson; Bryce Landscapes, Tutoring, Player History, Interface Design
- Aric Olsen: Geologic & Quality evaluation, Content Quality Control
- Carson Rittel; Content Quality Control, Help Database
- Jennifer Thorstad: Geologic & Quality evaluation, Content Quality Control
- Susan Sattler; Educational Content
- Joy Turnbull; Content Quality Control, Help Database
- Brad Vender; MOO-side HTML server
- Dean Vestal; Content Quality Control, Help Database, Interface Design
- Mindy Sue Vogel; Geologic & Quality evaluation, Alternative exercises
- Karen Cassie Curtis Vorthmann; Geologic & Quality evaluation, Alternative
exercises
- Jane Willenbring; Assessment and Evaluation
- The 1997-1998 faculty/student research group (co-authors on the SCCS-98 paper)
- Brian M. Slator, Donald Schwert*, Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat*,
Phil McClean**, Jon Abel, John Bauer, Brian Gietzen,
Nathan Green, Yongxin "George" Jia, Tammy Kavli, Lucas
Koehntop, Bhaskar Marthi, Vidyalatha Nagareddy, Acey
Olson, Kishore Peravali, Daniel Turany,
Brad Vender, James Walsh
Computer Science, Geosciences*, Plant Science** Departments,
North Dakota State University
- The students of CS372 (Summer 1997):
- Scott Aagard, Elson
Abraham, Brian Allrich, John Bauer, Tonia Brezina, Michele
Chown, Murali Dhandapani, Michael Dunkle, Brent Ellingson, Chad
Elliott, Bryan Fugere, Nathan Green, Syed Habibullah, Jeffrey
Haugen, Robert Hoffman, Jim John, Beau Kautzman, Lucas Koehntop,
Shane Kullman, Jason Lagge, Bhaskar Marthi, Debra Meyers, Rupa
Mitra, Prashanth Mylvarabatla, Vidyalatha Nagareddy, Curtis
Ophoven, Xiaofeng Pan, Kishore Pervali, Mingbo Qin, Silvia
Salas, Darin Schmitz, Samuel Silverthorn, Brian Stroot, David
Teigland, Daniel Turany, Daniel Ward, Yue Yun.
Grants
- 2001 U.S. Department of Education Fund for the Improvement
of Post-Secondary Education (FIPSE) P116B01-1528: A virtual
world to train future earth scientists. (Schwert, Slator,
and Saini-Eidukat). $270,203. 3 years. (Oct. 1, 2001 - Sept.
30, 2004).
- 2000-2005 National Science Foundation (NSF-ITR) No. EIA-0086142 to
Dr. Brian M. Slator, PI, Dr. Phil McClean, Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Dr.
Donald Schwert, Dr. Alan White. Systems for Learning Science and Assessing
Student Learning; 5 years, $1.94 Million.
- 2000-2002 ND-EPSCoR, IIP Seed Grant Award, Intelligent Tutoring Using
Case-based Reasoning. Dr. Brian M. Slator, PI, $10,000 for 1 year
(renewable for 1 additional year).
- 2000-2002 National Science Foundation (DUE-CCLI) No. DUE-9981094 to
Dr. Brian M. Slator, PI, Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, and Dr. Don Schwert.
New Directions in Virtual Geoscience Education; 23 months, $74,192.
- 1999 ND-EPSCoR, Phase 0 (TRIC) Award. Dr. Donald Schwert, PI, Dr. Brian
M. Slator and Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, Co-PIs, $3,500 for 6 months
(through NSF grant No. EPS-9874802).
- 1998-1999 Undergraduate Research Salary Support, College of Science
and Mathematics, Kevin McCaul, Dean and NDSU Computer Science Department,
Ken Nygard, Chair, $3,700 for 9 months.
- 1998-2000 National Science Foundation (GEO-ED) No. EAR-9809761 to Dr.
Brian M. Slator, PI, Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, and Dr. Don Schwert.
Learning by Doing Physical Geology in a Virtual Laboratory/Virtual Field
Trip Computer Environment; 1 year, $49,981, plus 1-year no-cost extension.
- 1998 North Dakota State University, Faculty Development Committee, No.
3522-6010, to Dr. Bernhardt Saini-Eidukat, PI, Dr. Don Schwert, and Dr.
Brian M. Slator. Planet Oit: Virtual Laboratory for Physical Geology; 6
months, $2,500.
Other
- "Colonel" Dave Schmidt; for the name: Planet Oit
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Major support provided by:
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The National Science Foundation (NSF)
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The U.S. Department of Education (FIPSE)
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under
Grant No. ESI-0454767. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations
expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily
reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.
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