Frontier Scientists website online

June 5, 2012

Marmian Grimes

The Frontier Scientists website is a collaboration funded by the National Science Foundation as part of an informal science education outreach grant. Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Director Greg Newby has been working with Liz O'Connell, of Wondervisions, to develop an interactive science education platform that uses short videos, blog entries and social media to connect the general public to research happening in the Arctic.

Current features on the site include research projects: Alaska's unmanned aircraft research, computational science and more. Another current story depicts Greg Newby speaking about the role of computation in doing science. Videos on the site are free to download, and have been provided to KUAC for broadcast.