The South East Alaska MOitoring Network for Science, Telecommunications, Education, and Research is a smart sensor web project designed to support collaborative environmental science with near-real-time recovery of large volumes of environmental data. The Year One geographic focus is the Lemon Creek watershed near Juneau Alaska with expansion planned for subsequent years up into the Juneau Icefield and into the coastal marine environment of the Alexander Archipelago and the Tongass National Forest.
In addition to application to scientific research and environmental monitoring we are designing SEAMONSTER to be a powerful learning and teaching tool both through its construction and in its future operation. Teaching objectives include scientist-teacher collaboration, fieldwork opportunities for both teachers and students, longer-term projects for dedicated students, and eventually an intuitive online virtual reality interface to coastal Southeast Alaska.
SEAMONSTER is funded by the NASA Advanced Information Systems Technology Program of the Earth-Sun System Technology Office.
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