A favorite Thinkmap project, the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Explorer is a fun and educational tool bringing scientific research to high school and early college students and the general public. The Chesapeake Bay is one of the most productive habitats on the east coast, and provides a great example of the complexity in who eats who. The visualization is built directly from data collected in the field.

NOAA Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Explorer

View the Ecosystem Explorer demo. This project uses thinkmap core, extensive custom java and python for data processing. It was originally built for a kiosk with Internet Explorer 5, so it has some weirdnesses in other browsers, but holds up surprisingly well.

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