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