Faculty Lecture Series Spring 2010

March 31, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library Room 301

Aquaculture Education and Research in an Online 3D Virtual World

A lecture by Benny Ron, Aquaculture Program Coordinator from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education.

The Aquaculture program at the University of Hawai'i has created a 3-dimensional simulation of an aquaponics system for use by researchers and educators. The simulation can be explored online by anyone in the world using "Second Life" [SL]: a Virtual World where residents can explore, socialize, participate in individual and group activities, and create and trade virtual property and services with one another. As of September 2008 there were just over 15 million registered Second Life users. At least 300 universities around the world now teach courses or conduct research in SL. The University of Hawai’i is not the first group to create an aquaponics system in Second Life, but to our knowledge they are the first to have created an interactive system where students and researchers can modify the layout of the system and see the effects on plants.


Ticket Information
free & open to the public

Event Sponsor
Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, Office of Reserch Relations, & UHM Library, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Teri Skillman, 808-956-8688, skillman@hawaii.edu

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