Penikese Island was a "virtual" field site for Harvard Prof Agassiz ...
or an "as if" site ... I'd say, in that as an island south of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a) it involved sea transportation (in a boat - with parallels to information technologies) to a different bounded separate "world," b) it was a field site for academic study (of the natural history of the Elizabeth Islands) in an isolated, separated environment (both Penikese and Cuttyhunk islands were probably deforested in the 1600s) with much potential for comparison with other places, and c) it was for academic learning and study ... (more later about this)
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Penikese Island was a "virtual" field site for Harvard Prof Agassiz https://t.co/SiBbXeFc1Chttps://t.co/zQkkhR0IZahttps://t.co/0RyUkuA3ZI— scottmacleod (@scottmacleod) November 21, 2016
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Found this at the top of my Twitter feed this morning:
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Off to Penikese... pic.twitter.com/yXm4D8CbHk— Lulu Miller (@lmillernpr) November 21, 2016
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I hope the realistic virtual earth WUaS plans to create in something like Google Street View/Maps/Earth with Time Slider and OpenSim, for ethno-wiki-virtual-world-graphy, will become a STEM field site and classroom for matriculated WUaS students to learn ... as if a Harvard or Stanford online, with parallels to Penikese for the Swiss Louis Agassiz ... re ...
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Tips for college freshmen -- and college applicants https://t.co/LZzqEuyRWz via @UKnowHGSEpic.twitter.com/xt3ebglQ4y— Harvard Education (@hgse) November 20, 2016
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Agassiz at Penikese
Burt G. Wilder
The American Naturalist
Vol. 32, No. 375 (Mar., 1898), pp. 189-196
Published by: The University of Chicago Press for The American Society of Naturalists
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2452464
Page Count: 8
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Westport researchers uncover local origins of famous Cuffe family
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/special/20161118/westport-researchers-uncover-local-origins-of-famous-cuffe-family*
(See, too, nearby: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuttyhunk_Island
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