Sunday, February 17, 2008

NOAA --WEATHER & OCEANIC SITE IN SL



I joined a very interesting tour of the NOAA ---the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration--site in Second Life last Thursday (Feb 7th). It was great to see all of the real-time weather displays as well as learning displays such as the tsumani safety site. According to their website at www.noaa.gov, "These and other virtual adventures are attracting large numbers of "avatars," or virtual selves, to one of the first government-sponsored, Earth-science "islands" in the rapidly growing online world of Second Life."