New Media Studio

At its 2009 Summer Meeting, the ESIP Federation voted to fund the Studio to upgrade its World Ocean Atlas Viewer. The World Ocean Atlas Viewer will be upgraded to be more effective as a classroom teaching tool. The NOAA climatology data will be updated from the 1998 set to the 2005 (the most current) set. Several teacher-requested user interface improvements will be included; and then the new viewer and all the data will be made available as a download for Mac or PC. Expected completion date: November 1, 2009. Martin Landsfeld and Jim Frew are the PIs on this effort.

When the film "The Day After Tomorrow" was coming out, NOAA called the New Media Studio with an urgent need for an animation of their climatological data.
The Studio responded within days, and NOAA had its visualization:
Modeling an abrupt climate change- Animation of surface air temperature change

However, the NCDC was not allowed to make this science public for weeks. You can read the controversy over this delay here:
Not "The Day After Tomorrow": Did the Bush White House try to block a new Web site devoted to educating the public about climate change?