Eclipse RCP software in action
Check out Josh Reed's blog, "Josh in Antarctica." Josh left Iowa State in mid-October to spend three months working at McMurdo Station with a group of scientists, educators and students from the U.S., Germany, New Zealand, Italy and the U.K. The group is part of the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) project. By drilling in to the earth's core, they hope to recover a history of paleoenvironmental changes - this could be helpful for providing guidance on future scenarios related to global warming.
Josh developed a graphic editing tool called the Paleontolical Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT). This application, based on the Eclipse rich-client platform (RCP), has been customized to the task of working with stratigraphic columns. PSICAT is being used for creating and viewing diagrams from drill cores and outcrops (think Photoshop or CorelDRAW on a higher level).
Josh updates his blog on a regular basis (including terrific pictures) and provides an interesting glimpse into work life on The Ice.
Posted by John Moran on November 7, 2006 at 8:33 AM
