This is an interactive map of the Carbon Cycle.
Pick one of the places on the map to get started
and begin following carbon on its Journey.
You can travel to many places
and do
many many things.
Have fun!
The Carbon Cycle is one of the most basic processes linking the earth with the organisms that inhabit it. Understanding the carbon cycle is crucial to understanding the underlying workings of our earth. There is a great deal of buzz surrounding global warming and sustainability, but very little explanation of the underlying processes that contribute to the health of our planet. We hope this project sheds light on the ways that carbon moves through our closed ecosystem.
This web interactive was produced during Winter 2012 by a group study class in Technocultural Studies at UC Davis, as part of emergence.ucdavis.edu. Group members worked collaboratively to prototype, design graphics, write copy, and compose the sonic experience. While all group members worked across disciplines, the primary roles were as follows:
Design: Theron Brown
Illustration & Design: Andrea Murphy Keaveney
Sound Design: Kevin Corcoran and Dave DeFilippo
Content Composition: Quinn Norris, Colin Dixon, Mike Salcido, Todd Kaiser
Early-Stage Prototyping: Carla Orendorff
Project Management: Tim Kerbavaz
Programming & Interaction: Steve Hartzog
Thanks to the visitors who participated in our process: Glenda Drew and Mary Brooke McEachern, Alexandra Navrotsky, David Pines, Peter Smerud, Shawn Carlson, Kurt Rhode, Peter Littlewood, Ivan Smalyukh, and Peter Harris.
This project was made possible by a grant from the Wolf Ridge Environmental Learning Center, with support from ICAM and NEAT through the division of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at UC Davis. Facilities for this program were provided by the Design Program at UC Davis.
The project team would like to especially thank David Pines and Micheal Plautz for their vision and support in conceiving and developing the course.
This site is dedicated to the memory of Micheal Plautz.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
