Explaining complex multidimensional datasets is always a challenge, but becomes even more difficult with untrained audiences such as beginning students or nonscientists. The Center for Environmental Kinetic Analysis (CEKA) is employing the GeoWall, an affordable and portable 3D data visualization system using off the shelf components, to meet this challenge in its outreach and educational activities. By using the GeoWall to present true 3D visualizations of molecular dynamics modeling, groundwater flow, contaminant transport, and the chemistry and kinetics of weathering, CEKA personnel can convey concepts that would otherwise be inaccessible to their audience. CEKA outreach and educational efforts employ one GeoWall permanently installed in the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum at Penn State and a second portable GeoWall that is used for outreach visits and in classrooms.

CEKA produced visualizations download page

Please contact Chuck Anderson, 814-863-2049 for more information about the CEKA GeoWalls and visualizations.