Improvement in Data Collection Tools for Field Biology

现场生物学数据收集工具的改进

• 批准号: 9651451
• 负责人: Judith Parrish
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Millikin University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improvement; Data; Collection; Tools; Field

Millikin University Biology Department will use computer- interfaced field data collection equipment to expand the kinds of field problems that can be addressed by students at all levels, both biology majors, and education majors and other non-majors. Accurate, data-logging field sensors of light quality and intensity, air and soil temperature, and of dissolved oxygen and temperature at various depths of aquatic systems, will be coupled with portable and durable field microscopes, night vision glasses, and instrumentation to measure plant moisture stress and photosynthesis, for individual and group problem-solving in courses using the Lake Sara Retreat Center as a field site. Improved environmental measurement systems, plant response meters, and field observation tools will provide rapid and unambiguous answers to student-initiated questions, reinforcing investigative skills. Students can then focus on the scientific thinking involved in formulating and refining hypotheses, designing experiments, and interpreting data. This will lead to better understanding of processes and therefore better research and/or dissemination of concepts to their future students.

密立金大学生物系将使用计算机接口的现场数据收集设备，以扩大各种领域的问题，可以由各级学生，无论是生物专业，教育专业和其他非专业的解决。准确的，数据记录光质量和强度，空气和土壤温度，溶解氧和温度在水生系统的各个深度的现场传感器，将与便携式和耐用的现场显微镜，夜视镜和仪器相结合，以测量植物水分胁迫和光合作用，为个人和团体解决问题的课程使用萨拉湖务虚会中心作为现场。改进的环境测量系统，植物反应仪和现场观察工具将为学生提出的问题提供快速和明确的答案，加强调查技能。然后，学生可以专注于制定和完善假设，设计实验和解释数据所涉及的科学思维。这将导致更好地理解过程，从而更好地研究和/或传播的概念，他们未来的学生。