Interfacing a Microcomputer and Telemetry Equipment for Undergraduate Field Studies in Animal Ecology and Ethology

连接微型计算机和遥测设备进行动物生态学和动物行为学本科实地研究

• 批准号: 8650703
• 负责人: Thomas Nelson
• 金额: $ 0.72万
• 依托单位: Arkansas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1986
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1986-05-01 至 1988-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8650703&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Interfacing; Microcomputer; Telemetry; Equipment; Undergraduate

With computer-automated telemonitoring equipment provided through this grant, the Wildlife Biology faculty of the Arkansas Tech University has created a facility for recording and analyzing the activities of radio- equipped animals at a 200-acre outdoor laboratory adjacent to the campus. The facility will provide students in ecology, animal behavior, and fisheries and wildlife management courses an opportunity to study daily and seasonal activity patterns, movements, habitat use, territoriality, dispersion, and social organization of the animals inhabiting this area. Instruments to be purchased for the facility include an integrated radio-telemetry system for the transmission and reception of each animal's location and activity, and an interfaced microcomputer for data storage and analysis. Use of the telemetry- computer system, in concert with traditional methods of wildlife observation, will provide a unique opportunity to supplement classroom learning with a dynamic, problem-oriented learning experience in the field. In addition to use in regular undergraduate courses, the facility will serve the needs of local high school biology teachers enrolled in in- service workshops, of upper-division students enrolled in individual directed-research projects, and of local area high school students participating in ATU's "gifted and talented" science program. This relatively low-cost effort promises to have an enormous impact upon the teaching of animal ecology and ethology in this institution, and to have a valuable spillover benefit for biology programs in the local high schools.

通过这台计算机自动远程监控设备， 格兰特说，阿肯色州理工大学的野生动物生物学系 创建了一个记录和分析无线电活动的设施， 在一个200英亩的户外实验室， 校园 该设施将为学生提供生态学，动物行为， 渔业和野生动物管理课程的机会， 日常和季节性活动模式、移动、栖息地利用， 动物的领地性、分散性和社会组织 居住在这个地区。 为该设施购买的仪器 包括用于传输的集成无线电遥测系统， 接收每只动物的位置和活动，以及 用于数据存储和分析的微型计算机。 使用遥测技术- 计算机系统，与野生动物的传统方法相一致， 观察，将提供一个独特的机会，以补充课堂 学习与动态，以问题为导向的学习经验， 领域 除了用于常规本科课程，该设施将 满足当地高中生物教师的需求， 服务讲习班，高年级学生参加， 直接研究项目，以及当地高中学生 参加ATU的“天才”科学项目 这 相对低成本的努力有望对 动物生态学和动物行为学的教学，并有 对当地高中的生物学项目来说， 学校