For more than two years, Microsoft Research and oceanographers have worked to develop Project Trident, an open-source “scientific workflow workbench,” which compiles, crunches and spits out scientific data in ways that make large-scale research findings easy to share, visualize, and replicate. It’s highly extensible. The Collaborative Ocean Visualization Environment (COVE), an extension developed by UW CSE graduate student Keith Grochow, lets scientists visualize their findings on a Google Maps-like atlas of the ocean floor.
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