Morphometrics Workshop -- June 10 - 23, 1990, Stony Brook, New York

形态测量学是对形状和形状变化的研究，它 结合了几何学和统计学。 形态计量学具有 系统生物学的广泛应用：定量描述 物种及其差异; 发生在个体生物体发育过程中， 一个谱系的进化;以及对 对这些差异和变化的影响。 领域 形态测量学在过去十年中取得了快速发展， 源于桌面图像分析系统的可用性 在微型计算机的推动下， 捕捉生物形状的概念方法 信息. 进一步增长的限制因素 生物形态计量学一直缺乏适当的 微电脑软件，和高训练阈值， 研究人员在试图使用形态测量学进行研究时， research. 国家科学院系统生物学计划 基金会支助了一个为期两周的培训讲习班， 1988年，密歇根大学，在此期间，35个学院级 研究人员接受了形态测量学的实际操作培训。 以来 在那次研讨会上， 将与讲习班一起出版 1990年的专辑。 Michael Bell博士和F.詹姆斯·罗尔夫 建议举办第二次为期两周的形态测量学培训讲习班， 在纽约州立大学的斯托尼布鲁克校园举行 约克。 会议记录卷和相关软件将是 课程中使用的主要材料，这将训练 近30名系统生物学研究人员 形态计量学的方法 拟议的培训讲习班将产生广泛影响 贯穿系统和进化生物学的各个领域。 与会者 将代表不同的分类群体和研究 哲学，他们将返回他们的东道国机构， 研讨会后准备使用和教授使用一个 重要的新研究工具。 他们将有能力写作 设备采购的竞争性赠款提案， 形态学研究 在研讨会期间，可能的新 方法将被讨论和形态计量学的地方， 系统研究将采取新形式。 研讨会将是一个 软件发布前的重要测试。 培训 像这样的研讨会是传播新的 方法和技术。

Morphometrics is the study of shape and shape change, and it combines aspects of geometry and statistics. Morphometrics has wide applications in systematic biology: quantitative description of species and their differences; characterization of the changes that occur during the development of an individual organism and the evolution of a lineage; and the study of processes that impact on these differences and changes. The field of morphometrics has made rapid advances in the past decade, stemming from the availability of desk-top image analysis systems driven by microcomputers, and the development of several new conceptual approaches to the capture of biological shape information. The limiting factors to the further growth of biological morphometrics have been the lack of appropriate microcomputer software, and the high training threshold that investigators face when attempting to use morphometrics in their research. The Systematic Biology Program of the National Science Foundation supported a two-week training workshop at the University of Michigan in 1988, during which 35 faculty-level researchers were given hands-on training in morphometrics. Since that workshop, a new battery of software packages have been developed by the instructors, to be published with the Workshop Proceedings volume in 1990. Dr. Michael Bell and F. James Rohlf propose a second two-week morphometrics training workshop, to be held on the Stony Brook campus of the State University of New York. The Proceedings volume and associated software will be the principal material used in the course, which will train approximately 30 systematic biology researchers in the latest approaches to morphometrics. The proposed training workshop will have wide implications throughout systematic and evolutionary biology. The participants will represent different taxonomic groups and research philosophies, and they will return to their host institutions after the workshop prepared to use and teach the use of an important new research tool. They will be in a position to write competitive grant proposals for equipment acquisition and morphometric research. During the workshop, possible new approaches will be discussed and the place of morphometrics in systematic research will take new form. The workshop will be an important test of the software prior to publication. Training workshops such as this are cost-effective ways to disseminate new methodologies and technologies.