Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina is not the first name that pops up in conversations about centers of polar science. Tucked at the tip of a branch of Albemarle Sound, along the state’s northeast coast, the well-regarded, historically African-American university focuses largely on undergraduate education. But it’s also taking part in cutting-edge Arctic and Antarctic science as a key player in PolarGrid — a powerful, sophisticated computer network researchers use to analyze images of ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica and model their behavior.
E-Science: Massive Experiments, Global Networks
October 9, 2008