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Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Marine science outreach using

interactive visualisation technologies:

Exhibiting Galway Bay

Dr. Ronan Hennessy & Dr. Sarah Knight

Ryan Institute, NUI Galway

Galway Bay’s Past Stories

• Mesolithic coastal archaeology ~ 6000 years ago

• Barna Bog boat

• Aran Islands ~ 4000 years old monuments

• Galway Bay mapped since 1600s

• Martello Towers

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Louis XIV Fleet Map

Costes Occidentales d’Irlandes in Neptune Francois 1693

• Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company 1858-64

• Mammoth/Elephant humerous? Savage, R.J.G. 1966. 'Irish Pleistocene Mammals.' Irish Naturalists' Journal

15: 117-30.

Glacial erosion Gaulish erosion

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Background

• Ryan Institute Outreach programme – Galway Museum

• 2nd floor dedicated to a ‘Marine Theme’

• 21st exhibits and interaction for children & adults

• 3D fly-through of Galway Bay exhibiting NUIG research

• Submarine installation

• Interactive Marine pollution game

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Flash Movies - Interactive

Movies &

Animations

VRML – Virtual Reality Markup Language

4D Emplacement Maps

Galway Batholith

3D Animation of Alcock & Brown

TransAtlantic flight in1919

Burren Geopark Maps Pop-up Cross Sections

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

“Trash Gnash” – Interactive Global Marine Pollution Game

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

20,000 Leagues under Galway Bay

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Open KMZ in

Google Earth

Download KMZ

to Device

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Google Earth Visualisations – A User’s Experience

Visit Download

Page

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Visit Download Page

Press Play

Interaction

Narration

Google Earth Visualisations – A New User Experience

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

Google Earth API

• Embed visualisations in Internet

browser

• Google Earth Plugin – free

• Google Chrome – inbuilt

Why Google Earth API?

• No Panels/Layer with “other” default

GE data

• User never leaves Web Page

• 4D & Audio Visualisations

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay

GE Visualisations

• Google Earth API

• Interactive GE controls

• Pre-designed tours

• Pop-up information windows

• Embedded photos and videos

Movie Visualisation

• Movie format

• Pre-recorded GE tours

• Narrated – voiced by an Actor(!)

• No interaction distraction, maintain full attention

• Compliment GE Experience

Exhibiting Galway Bay - GE Visualisations Narrated Tour of Galway Bay

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/Bay_tour_seafloor.html

Coastal Tour of Galway Bay

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/Coastal_location_tour_player.html

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/south_gb_tour_player.html

Offshore Tour meets Seascapes!

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/INFOMAR_Bathymetry_500M_Zone.html

Side Panel with Layers

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/kmltree_popup_GB_south.html

Galway Bay Batholith Guide

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/Galway_batholith_guide.html

http://www.geoscene.ie/ge/kmltree_ggranite.html

Marine science outreach using interactive visualisation technologies: Exhibiting Galway Bay