Welcome to the New Media Research Institute
Posted March 27th, 2007 by Bruce CaronWe work just far enough outside of academia to escape the inertia of the academic calendar, yet near enough for purposeful collaborations. We work between the Academy and the Academy (Harvard and Hollywood). From our up-town Santa Barbara offices NMRI builds partnerships that enable forefront research into the future of new media. A publicly funded research institute. The NMRI is the research wing of The New Media Studio, a California based 501(c)3 public benefit corporation.
Who we are:
A small group of media theorists and programmers who are forging a vision of the digital future into software and content.
An active media consortium of professionals from various fields.
A new media think-tank where the implications of the digital future are under discussion.
History:
After years of discussion among researchers and media professionals in Santa Barbara, The New Media Studio was created at the end of the Twentieth Century. To herald the beginning of the Twenty-First Century the New Media Research Institute was built within the Studio to manage media research efforts. The Studio also manages media production and distribution efforts.
Goals:
The New Media Research Institute looks ahead to digital technologies that will revolutionize the way we think, work, and socialize. By applying media informatics to the problems of knowledge management and data access (to name a few current efforts) NMRI will quicken the transition to digital modes of thought and action.
Our mailing address is: 417 Samarkand Drive, Santa Barbara, CA 93105
Skolr Poster Service Prototype at the ESIP Federation 2011 Summer Meeting
Posted July 9th, 2011 by Bruce CaronThe prototype service being tested at the ESIP Federation includes several features designed to help make the poster sessions more valuable for Federation meeting attendees and other members. The digital posters can be searched, browsed, and commented upon. The meeting organizer can build a whole poster service as an administrator, and give presenters and members meeting keys to view the content.
SBDART Radiative Transfer Model GUI
Posted October 15th, 2010 by Bruce CaronThe SBDART project was created to explore how a FORTRAN model could be wrapped in a GUI and delivered as an application. The SBDART model's FORTRAN compiler is PC ONLY.
DOWNLOAD: SBDART (Santa Barbara DISORT Atmospheric Radiative Transfer)
THIS IS NOT SUPPORTED in any fashion. Use at your own risk.
LINK: SBDART homepage
Here is the authorized description of the model:
DigitalOcean Panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, UNESCO, Paris
Posted April 16th, 2010 by Bruce CaronThe DigitalOcean Consortium will be presenting a panel at the 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands: Ensuring Survival, Preserving Life, and Improving Governance, May 3-7, 2010, at UNESCO in Paris.
This is a major opportunity to showcase how the DigitalOcean software and team can help improve governance by building rapid, effective communication fabrics between scientists and ocean stakeholders and planners.
WOA 2005 Viewer
Posted February 28th, 2010 by Bruce Caron in
The WOA viewer brings the entire NOAA World Ocean Atlas 2005 ocean chemistry climatologies into one easy to use viewer.
For more information on the dataset, visit the NODC website FAQ page .
More WOA information at Wikipedia: World Ocean Atlas
Download MAC version here: bit.ly/WOA2005mac
Download PC version here: bit.ly/WOA2005pc
WOA VIEWER INSTRUCTIONS:
Data Summit Photos
Posted January 3rd, 2010 by Bruce CaronVictoria Minnich has posted her photos from the Summit on Picassa:
A New VISION for the Research Institute!
Posted September 9th, 2009 by Bruce CaronIn August, 2009, The Instititute received word that the Phase II STTR project, Volumetric Imaging for Science Instruction of an Open Nature, has been funded by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development.
Summit Attendees to date:
Posted September 9th, 2009 by Bruce Caron in
The Summit is coming together really well... Here is a list of participants (as of 9/5/09)
Bruce Caron and Kevin Ward (conveners)
Jeff McWhirter
Tommy Jasmin
Kevin Ward
Marit Jentoft-Nilsen
Robert Simmon
Suresh Santhanavannan
Marty Landsfeld
Ned Gardiner
David Nadeau
Tom Rink
Charles Thompson
Eric Russell
John Moreland
Remotely-Sensed Earth-Data Visualization Tool and Technology Summit
Posted August 11th, 2009 by Bruce CaronRemotely-Sensed Earth-Data Visualization Tool and Technology Summit: Santa Barbara, October 27, 2009
Dear earth data visualization tool maker:
DigitalOcean Content
Posted May 27th, 2009 by Bruce Caron in
Ocean Science Content
DigitalOcean will be a new focal point for ocean science results, news, and information. The ECOS Network will aggregate ocean science feeds from all of the major science journals and open access publishers and allow members to customize these feeds for their daily use. The ECOS Network will also enable members to locate and store a variety of research and career-related information, from citation libraries, to CVs, to research results not suitable for publication (e.g., those experiments where the results did not yield statistically significant findings) but of real interest to others who might waste their time attempting a similar experiment. Comments and critiques of published works, quality reviews of media content, and forums where scientists explore relevant issues will also be aggregated.
Instant publication: community peer review
The ECOS Network will build a preprint service similar to the Nature Precedings service. That service describes itself in the following way: “Nature Precedings is a free online service from NPG that enables researchers in the life sciences to openly share preliminary findings, solicit community feedback, and claim priority over discoveries by posting preprint manuscripts, white papers, technical reports, posters, and presentations.” Note: The Allen Brain Atlas Reports are a highlighted collection in Precedings. ECOS Network service will extend this type of service to the many disciplines of ocean science. Because the ECOS Network is also a strong community, it will be tasked to openly review science findings contributed as preprints. The goal here is to test if open community review might offer advantages to the current system of closed peer review.
