The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) demonstrated the possibilities of high-performance research and education networks at the recent spring Internet2 meeting using a videoconference that connected attendees to the former Homestake Gold Mine near Lead, S.D. The mine is a possible site for the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL), where physicists, biologists, and geologists could conduct research regarding matter, energy, and the Earth. DUSEL experiments would generate large volumes of data that could be distributed to researchers around the world, says South Dakota Board of Regents’ Claude Garelik. He noted that live videoconference links are not new to the education community. “High definition is new technology to the industry, but we have been doing videoconferencing for a long time.” DUSEL would be an interdisciplinary science lab created to study basic questions of modern science, such as the nature of dark matter and energy. NSF is evaluating design options for large-scale DUSEL facilities and construction could begin by 2014, says University of California, Berkeley’s Kevin Lesko.
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