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NOAA Expands in Second Life

Filed under: News items, Second Life, Education

HAB at Okeanos
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has expanded it's presence in Second Life. Sixteen months ago they opened Meteroa and they have just added a second sim called Okeanos which focuses more explicitly on the oceans than the atmosphere that you find in Meteroa.

In the new sim you will find a submarine journey through underwater environments, treating oil spills, information about harmful algal blooms and how NOAA is trying to predict them, and much, much more. As those of us used to NOAA in Second Life might expect it is beautiful, and has quite a lot of activities associated with it. Unlike Meteroa it uses a guide HUD which can take up quite a bit of your screen and which I found to have a few technical problems too, but these will, doubtless, be fixed in the next few days and even with them it is well worth a visit.

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