Aves 3D: An Online Database of Three-dimensional Avian Skeletal Morphology (RUI)

圣十字学院获得一笔赠款，用于建立一个开放式在线数据库，其中包含现存和最近灭绝的鸟类家族和化石分类群的个体骨骼元素的三维（3D）数字扫描。骨骼扫描，数据库生成，网络界面管理，教学资源的创建，以及形态，功能和系统的研究项目将由本科生进行，由PI？他们的研究生和博士后研究员。该在线数据库还将作为贡献博物馆藏品的数字档案，并允许在全球范围内快速传播常见以及稀有和潜在脆弱标本的三维数字数据，其格式可用于广泛的二维和三维计算分析。本科生参与包括两个月的暑期实习，其次是全年的研究项目。该数据库将形成生物调查的产品，提供一个重要的科学层面，本科生的机会，获得复杂的仪器和软件的经验。研究生在本科生的培训和监督提供了机会，这将有助于他们准备在学术界和工业界未来的领导职务。

The College of the Holy Cross is awarded a grant to construct an open access online database containing three-dimensional (3D) digital scans of the individual skeletal elements of extant and recently extinct bird families and fossil taxa. Scanning of bones, database generation, web-interface management, creation of teaching resources, and morphological, functional and systematic research projects will be carried out by undergraduate students, supervised by the PI?s, their graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The online database will also serve as a digital archive for the collections of contributing museums and allows for rapid global dissemination of 3D digital data on common as well as rare and potentially fragile specimens, in a format ready for a wide range of two and three-dimensional computational analyses. Undergraduate student participation consists of two-month summer internships, followed by full year research projects. The database will be formed as a product of biological inquiry, providing an essential scientific dimension to undergraduate student opportunities for obtaining experience with complex instrumentation and software. Graduate students are provided with opportunities in the training and supervision of undergraduates, which will help prepare them for future leadership positions in academia and industry.