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Update on 2nd May, 2023

about this web site and projects?

This web site is supported by Iseki laboratory of Tokyo University of Information Science (TUIS).

Abyss Observatory was opened in 2010 by Hajime Nishimura, Vianka Scorfield, comet Morigi and Rezago Kokorin hosted by National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Second Life (SL). It was taken over from NOAA to Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) in 2011, and has been operated by Nishimura since 2015 hosted by Kenneth Y T Lim (National Institute of Education, Singapore).
In OpenSim, Abyss started at Science Sim operated by Intel in 2011, moved to JOGrid operated by Fumikazu Iseki (Tokyo University of Information Science).

Gateway to Thinking, TelePortal for Education was opened by Nishimura and Akasha Kokuu in 2015 hosted by The ScienceCircle Foundation (SC), and Community Virtual Library (CVL) since 2020.

Orientation Tower for VW Educators (Virtual World Teacher Training Project) was opened by Nishimura, Natalie Nussli (Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz), Kevin Oh (University of San Francisco) and Gregory Perrier (Northern Virginia Community College) in 2016 hosted by SC, and Nonprofit Commons (NPC) since 2020.

about the author?

Hajime Nishimura (Avatar name: Yan Lauria)
- Curator of Abyss Observatory, Gateway to Thinking- TelePortal for Education, Oriantation Tower for VW Educators, The Modern Museum, Climate Change Learning Portal
- Creator of International Spaceflight Museum
- Lecturer of co2sos
- Retired JAMSTEC in 2020
(Biography)
1984: Deep submersible "Shinkai 6500" development project (Science and Technology Agency, current MEXT)
1986: Global Climate Change Research Program (same as above)
1988: Japan Module of International Space Station Program (National Space Development Agency, current JAXA)
1995: Oceanographic vessel "Mirai" converted from nuclear cargo ship (JAMSTEC)
1997: Ultra-deep drill ship "Chikyu" development project (JAMSTEC)
2006: Organized 1st Underwater Robot Competition for students (Continues to the present)
2010: Data Integration and Analysis System (DIAS) program (JAMSTEC), Opening of Abyss Observatory
2014: The Modern Museum (Interdisciplinary history museum), Joining with International Spaceflight Museum (ISM)
2015: Gateway to Thinking, TelePortal for Education, The Science Circle Award 2015
2016: Virtual World Teacher Training Project
2017: Remote classroom series collaborated with co2sos and science museum Sci-Pia
2019: Climate Change Learning Portal supported by nonprofit co2sos
2020: TelePortal Tour series hosted by Community Virtual Library

Author's major works

- Demonstration of Lectures using 3D contents curated in 3D geospace
- Virtual World Lesson Plan Database
- Hajime Nishimura, motoko Moonwall, comet Morigi, "Liberal vs. Conservative in Art? -Art History part 3", 3rd Nov, 2018
- Hajime Nishimura, Gaio Wanderer, "Serendipity via in-situ creation in user generated 3D geo-space", International Conference on Virtual Reality (VR2020), 16 Nov.2020
- Linda Morris Kelley, Hajime Nishimura, Kenneth Y T Lim, "Using virtual immersive 3D geospaces to gain understanding of and support for responsible management of coastal ecosystems", Webinar on Coastal Ecosystem and Management (Coastal Zone 2020), 24th Aug, 2020
- Hajime Nishimura, Kenneth Y T Lim, Koji Koyamada, "The Abyss Observatory Designing for Remote Collaboration, Self-directed Discovery and Intuition Development in Multi-User Interactive 3D Virtual Environments", Journal for Virtual World Research, Vol 5, No 2 (2012)
- Shinya KAKUTA, Hajime NISHIMURA, Taizan SUZUKI, "Consensus-Building Items to Facilitate Distribution of In-situ Data related to Super-high-resolution Meteorological Turbulence Simulation", MACRO REVIEW, Vol.32, No.1, 1-19, 2020
- Shinya KAKUTA, Hajime NISHIMURA, "Business Environment of Storm and Flood Risk Assessment", MACRO REVIEW, Vol.32, No.2, 49-60, 2020
- Hajime Nishimura, "How to make Virtual Museum"
- Hajime NIshimura, Shingo Fujisaki, Shinya Matsuura, "Will the Japanese Island sink?", Hayakawa Publishing,Inc, 2006.7.15

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