Living Marine Invertebrates: An Interactive CD-ROM

活的海洋无脊椎动物：交互式 CD-ROM

• 批准号: 0231135
• 负责人: Leslie Watling
• 金额: $ 7.03万
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-03-15 至 2005-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0231135&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Living; Marine; Invertebrates; Interactive; CD

Invertebrates comprise 95% of all animal life on the Earth and dominate the world's oceans so some knowledge of their biology and ecology is fundamental to a student's understanding of the planet's ecosystems. Invertebrates are covered in many university-level courses ranging from traditional invertebrate zoology classes to those emphasizing general introductory biology, marine biology, oceanography, and biodiversity, to name a few. Invertebrates are represented by a dizzying array of body forms and morphologicalvariations as well as complex feeding, locomotory, and other behaviors that are difficult to describe and illustrate. Virtually all textbooks represent invertebrates with line drawings and photographs in an encyclopedic manner that provide students with little or no sense of their position and/or behavior in natural habitats. No multimedia products are available on the market today that provide students with a means to observe most invertebrate groups, their respective body plans and behaviors. This project is developing a prototype interactive CD-ROM containing digital videotape sequences of selected living marine invertebrates with an emphasis on the body plans and locomotory and feeding behavior of two major groups. We are building on several years of experience in videotaping living invertebrates under both natural and simulated field conditions and have access to a multitude of marine habitats and state-of-the-art culture facilities for conducting the project. The prototype is being tested by visiting undergraduate students from 30 universities that use our teaching and research facilities. Additional testing of the prototype will occur at a national meeting of invertebrate zoologists.

无脊椎动物占地球上所有动物生命的95%，并主宰着世界的海洋，因此对其生物学和生态学的一些知识对于学生了解地球生态系统至关重要。无脊椎动物涵盖在许多大学水平的课程，从传统的无脊椎动物动物学课程，以那些强调一般介绍生物学，海洋生物学，海洋学和生物多样性，仅举几例。 无脊椎动物有着令人眼花缭乱的身体形态和形态变异，以及复杂的进食、运动和其他难以描述和说明的行为。几乎所有的教科书都用线条画和照片以一种无脊椎动物的方式来描绘无脊椎动物，这使得学生对它们在自然栖息地中的位置和/或行为几乎没有感觉。目前，市场上没有多媒体产品可以为学生提供观察大多数无脊椎动物群体及其各自的身体计划和行为的手段。 这个项目正在开发一个互动光盘原型，其中包括选定的海洋无脊椎动物的数字录像带序列，重点是两个主要群体的身体计划和运动和进食行为。我们在自然和模拟野外条件下拍摄活的无脊椎动物方面积累了多年的经验，并可以利用众多的海洋栖息地和最先进的文化设施来进行该项目。 来自30所大学的来访本科生正在使用我们的教学和研究设施对原型进行测试。对原型的进一步测试将在一次全国无脊椎动物学家会议上进行。