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1. This is the place for your title. This is the place for your title. This is the place for your title. This is the place for your title. Team Member 1 (SCHOOL), Team Member 2 (SCHOOL), Team Member 3 (SCHOOL), Team Member 4 (SCHOOL) Mentor: Dr. Blank Blank (School ) ABSTRACT The titles of each subsection should be bold and 24 point font. Do nut underline the subtitles. The body text of each subsection should be at least 18 point and NOT bold. Do not attempt to place your entire report on the poster. This is a place to provide highlights of your research. Emphasize the visuals developed during your research and provide URLs for further reading. IMAGES Ensure your visuals are referenced in your text and meaningful to illustrate your research. Do not use visuals that are not part of the research. SECTIONS Include standard Scientific Method procedure sections where able: Question Research Hypothesis Experiment (Method) Data Analyzed Conclusion Results Future Work Acknowledgements References STEPS OF THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD Ask a Question: The scientific method starts when you ask a question about something that you observe: How, What, When, Who, Which, Why, or Where? And, in order for the scientific method to answer the question it must be about something that you can measure, preferably with a number. Do Background Research: Rather than starting from scratch in putting together a plan for answering your question, you want to be a savvy scientist using library and Internet research to help you find the best way to do things and insure that you don't repeat mistakes from the past. Construct a Hypothesis: A hypothesis is an educated guess about how things work: "If _____[I do this] _____, then _____[this]_____ will happen." You must state your hypothesis in a way that you can easily measure, and of course, your hypothesis should be constructed in a way to help you answer your original question. Test Your Hypothesis by Doing an Experiment: Your experiment tests whether your hypothesis is true or false. It is important for your experiment to be a fair test. You conduct a fair test by making sure that you change only one factor at a time while keeping all other conditions the same. You should also repeat your experiments several times to make sure that the first results weren't just an accident. Analyze Your Data and Draw a Conclusion: Once your experiment is complete, you collect your measurements and analyze them to see if your hypothesis is true or false. Scientists often find that their hypothesis was false, and in such cases they will construct a new hypothesis starting the entire process of the scientific method over again. Even if they find that their hypothesis was true, they may want to test it again in a new way. Communicate Your Results: To complete your science fair project you will communicate your results to others in a final report and/or a display board. Professional scientists do almost exactly the same thing by publishing their final report in a scientific journal or by presenting their results on a poster at a scientific meeting. CReSIS The Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) is a Science and Technology Center established by the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2005, with the mission of developing new technologies and computer models to measure and predict the response of sea level change to the mass balance of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. The NSF’s Science and Technology Center (STC) program combines the efforts of scientists and engineers to respond to problems of global significance, supporting the intense, sustained, collaborative work that is required to achieve progress in these areas. CReSIS provides students and faculty with opportunities to pursue exciting research in a variety of disciplines; to collaborate with world-class scientists and engineers in the US and abroad; and to make meaningful contributions to the ongoing, urgent work of addressing the impact of climate change. The University of Kansas serves as the lead institution for CReSIS, which is comprised of six additional partner institutions: Elizabeth City State University, Indiana University, University of Washington, The Pennsylvania State University, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and the Association of Computer and Information Science Engineering Departments at Minority Institutions. In addition to this core group, CReSIS collaborates with several international institutions and industry partners. CERSER The goal of the ECSU Center of Excellence in Remote Sensing Education and Research (CERSER) is to develop and implement innovative and relevant research collaborations focused on ice sheet, coastal, ocean, and marine research. CERSER is also the home of the IEEE-Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Eastern North Carolina Chapter #03181 and Student Chapter Branch #66221. The CERSER Laboratory consists of computer workstations on Macintosh, Linux, and Windows platforms; remote storage areas of polar data; servers including a local web server and file server. Also available is an undergraduate research lab containing workstations configured to allow the use of three separate operating systems depending on faculty or student needs. CERSER operates a Sea Pro Model 210 research vessel with UHF Radio, Raytheon 300 GPS and Raytheon 365 Depth Finder. The vessel utilizes an ImagenexSportScan dual channel, high-resolution, digital sidescan sonar with a 23 meter tow cable. For land research, CERSER utilizes a SIR-3000 Ground Penetrating Radar by Geophysical Survey Systems, Inc. The SIR-3000 is a small, lightweight system designed for single user operation and incorporates advanced signal processing and display capability for in-the-field 3D imaging. Multiple GPS devices are also available for hands-on training. POLAR GRID Polar Grid is a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation funded partnership of Indiana University and Elizabeth City State University. The partnership goal is to acquire and deploy the computing infrastructure needed to investigate the urgent problems in glacial melting. Polar Grid’s major components and concepts of operation are depicted in the diagram below and detailed at http://www.polargrid.org. FUTURE WORK Use this section to provide recommendations to researchers who will follow behind you with work based on your project. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS It is always a good idea to acknowledge those who have assisted you in completing this research. Consider who Is paying for your internship, who is providing you with information and tools, and any other parties that may have assisted you. ECSU ECSU is working to create a large-scale distributed computing system to aide in the processing of data collected during polar expeditions. In October of 2008 the initial 64-node cluster was delivered to ECSU in preparation for the final ~600-node cluster which is scheduled for 2010. This cluster will be housed in the E.V. Wilkins Academic Computing Center. At that time ECSU will be the first Minority Serving Institution (MSI) to house a cluster capable of acceptance into the national TeraGrid Project. The Polar Grid lab will be the center of operations related to the use and support of that cluster and will grow as new projects, grants, and individuals utilize the cluster through cyberinfrastructure. • References • UNC Data Additions Validations Edits, https://apps.northcarolina.edu/dave/wayf.php, retrieved from the World Wide Web on November 4, 2011 • Google Maps Help, http://support.google.com/maps/?hl=en, retrieved from the World Wide Web on November 14, 2011 • N. Cogbill, M. Seymore Research and Implementation of Data Submission Technologies in Support of CReSIS Polar and Cyberinfrastructure Research Projects at ECSU, http://nia.ecsu.edu/ur/0910/teams/mmt/mmt0910paper.pdf, retrieved from the World Wide Web on January 3, 2012 • UNC Facilities Inventory & Utilization, http://www.northcarolina.edu/ira/fac_util/, retrieved from the World Wide Web on February 4, 2012 • C. Converse, “Dreamweaver templates: Customizable starter design for multiscreen development | Adobe Developer Connection”, 11 July 2011, http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/dw-template-media-queries.html, retrieved from the World Wide Web on January 4, 2012