Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences

The SOS team, mobile application

Profiles
People
Hilary Peddicord, Beth Wehe, Jonathan Joyce
Year Awarded
2020
Type
OPA Service
Affiliation
GSL
Geography
CIRES

Hilary Peddicord, Beth Wehe, and Jonathan Joyce (in NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory) created a new, free app for mobile devices, which displays Science On a Sphere®️ (SOS) visual data. The app brings the educational SOS tool found in science centers and museums across the country to a vastly larger, worldwide audience. The team developed innovative software solutions to minimize data transfer requirements, enabling SOS display on mobile devices across networks that may not be high speed.