Planning Visit to New Zealand and Australia for Cooperative Research on the Evolution of Respiratory Systems in Ancient Reptiles

0402070Boggs这是一项计划拨款，包括东华盛顿大学的Dona Boggs博士访问新西兰的几个地区和澳大利亚的墨尔本，以收集信息并为国际合作研究工作做出安排，这项工作将涉及几名研究人员和几种动物。PI计划的研究合作的总体重点是灭绝和活着的脊椎动物呼吸系统和运动系统的进化和相互作用。PI打算从博物馆标本中收集一些关于现存的古代爬行动物恐龙肌肉骨骼特征的数据，这种恐龙只在新西兰大陆外的几个岛屿上才能找到。她还将制定更详细的研究计划，研究新西兰的几种鸟类(会飞的、不会飞的和潜水的)和澳大利亚的巨翼蝙蝠。此行还将使她能够安排必要的研究许可，亲自会见两国自然保护部的代表和新西兰毛利人社区的当局。后者是新西兰法律所要求的。智力价值此行是迈向一个项目的第一步，该项目将促进我们对几个脊椎动物群体中呼吸和运动系统的共同进化的了解。随后的大部分实地研究将在被访问的国家进行，将包括来自这些国家的调查人员以及德国的专家。更广泛的影响最终的研究项目将加强四个国家在研究方面的合作。参与者将包括三名女性调查人员以及来自美国一所小型地区性大学的本科生和研究生参与者。这些结果将广泛传播给对比较生理学和脊椎动物功能形态和进化感兴趣的科学界。

0402070BoggsThis is a planning grant that involves visits by Dr. Dona Boggs of Eastern Washington University to several parts of New Zealand and to Melbourne, Australia in order to gather information and make arrangements for an international collaborative research effort that will involve several investigators and several types of animals. The general focus of the research collaborations being planned by the PI is the evolution and interaction of respiratory and locomotor systems in extinct and living vertebrates. The PI intends to collect data from museum specimens on some musculo-skeletal features of a living ancient reptile-like animal, the tuatara, which is found only on several islands off the New Zealand mainland. She will also develop more detailed research plans for studying several species of birds (flying, flightless, and diving species) in New Zealand and megachiropteran bats in Australia. This trip will also enable her to arrange the necessary research permits by meeting in person with representatives of Departments of Conservation in both countries and with authorities of the Maori community of New Zealand. The latter is required by New Zealand law. Intellectual Merit This trip is a preliminary step toward a project that would advance our knowledge of the coevolution of ventilatory and locomotor systems in several groups of vertebrates . Most of the later field research will be done in the countries being visited and will include investigators from those countries as well as experts in Germany. Broader ImpactsThe ultimate research project will enhance partnerships in research across four nations. The participants will include three female investigators as well as undergraduate and graduate student participants from a small regional American university. The results will be broadly disseminated to the scientific communities interested in comparative physiology and vertebrate functional morphology and evolution.