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Visitors' Prior Knowledge and Interests in Marine Microbes and Metagenomics

January 30, 2011 | Exhibitions
This front-end evaluation sought (1) to identify visitors' prior knowledge of microbial oceanography, and (2) to determine visitors’ interest in the different research conducted by microbial oceanographers with metagenomics data. The findings from this study served to (1) guide the selection of scientific datasets that are meaningful to visitors, (2) suggest areas of interest to highlight, and (3) identify information or explanations visitors may need to make sense of the content, for the Living Liquid pathways project that aimed to use visualization tools to engage museum visitors with microbial oceanography. Appendix contains interview protocol.

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    NSF
    Funding Program: ISE/AISL
    Funding Amount: 214644
    Resource Type: Research and Evaluation Instruments | Interview Protocol | Evaluation Reports
    Discipline: Life science
    Audience: General Public | Museum/ISE Professionals | Evaluators
    Environment Type: Exhibitions | Museum and Science Center Exhibits

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