Legacy Database of the Panama Paleontology Project

巴拿马古生物学项目遗产数据库

• 批准号: 0746014
• 负责人: Laurel Collins
• 金额: $ 11.53万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-15 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0746014&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Legacy; Database; Panama; Paleontology; Project

LEGACY DATABASE OF THE PANAMA PALEONTOLOGY PROJECTLaurel S. Collins and Anthony G. CoatesEAR-0746014, Florida International University ABSTRACTIf scientists are to gain a better understanding of the influence of environmental change on the highly diverse but poorly understood faunas of the tropics, they need more detailed, chronologically arranged information. This project constructs a relational database of information on tropical fossils collected by the Panama Paleontology Project (PPP), makes it available via the internet, and links it to a system that will automatically update the ages to the newest standard geologic time scale, which is continually refined with new data. The PPP's fossil collections of mostly foraminifera, mollusks, fish, corals, ostracodes and bryozoans from Central and South America are housed in major world museums. The ages of the fossils are unusually well resolved, which makes them invaluable for fine-scaled research on tropical evolution, geology, biogeography and environmental change. At present, more than 40 scientists from 7 countries have produced over 180 scientific publications based on these collections; however, for continued research, the current information needs to be supplemented and ages need to be standardized to a single time scale.The PPP Database will have a structure based on a data model of the relationships of the data categories, a web interface for users, and links to the TimeScale-Creator program of the International Commission on Stratigraphy that enables future updates to the newest geologic age information. The existing collections information currently available at www.fiu.edu/~collinsl/pppdatabase.html will also be updated to include newer collections from Panama, Costa Rica, Venezuela and Ecuador (~ 825 sites and ~2000 records). The main activities of the project are to: add new records and information to the database, provide updated ages for all faunal samples, implement the data model as a relational database, make the entire database available on the web, and make future updates to the newest age information automatic. The additional data will be extracted from documents such as field notebooks, publications and biostratigraphers' reports. The general methods employed for assigning ages are: 1) ordering all collection sites stratigraphically, 2) making biostratigraphic determinations for each site, 3) resolving age problems with the project's biostratigraphers, and 4) assigning biochronologic ages to the sites using the latest age information. The main results of the project's activities are to enhance knowledge for scientific research and the education of students and postdoctoral scientists. The new database will enable a number of key questions related to large-scale evolutionary and ecological processes to be tested rigorously and at a relatively fine scale by scientists around the world. A graduate student at FIU, Florida's state university in Miami and a federally recognized minority institution, will learn data management and project organization.

巴拿马古生物学项目的遗留数据库劳雷尔·S·柯林斯 (Laurel S. Collins) 和安东尼·G·科茨 (Anthony G. Coates)EAR-0746014，佛罗里达国际大学 摘要如果科学家要更好地了解环境变化对热带地区高度多样化但知之甚少的动物群的影响，他们需要更详细、按时间顺序排列的信息。该项目构建了一个由巴拿马古生物学项目（PPP）收集的热带化石信息的关系数据库，通过互联网提供，并将其链接到一个系统，该系统将自动将年龄更新到最新的标准地质时间尺度，并不断用新数据进行完善。 PPP 的化石收藏品主要是来自中美洲和南美洲的有孔虫、软体动物、鱼类、珊瑚、介形类和苔藓虫，分布在世界主要博物馆中。这些化石的年龄得到了异常清晰的解析，这使得它们对于热带演化、地质学、生物地理学和环境变化的精细研究具有无价的价值。目前，来自 7 个国家的 40 多名科学家已根据这些馆藏出版了 180 多篇科学出版物；然而，为了继续研究，需要补充当前的信息，并且需要将年龄标准化为单一时间尺度。PPP 数据库将具有基于数据类别关系的数据模型的结构、用户的网络界面以及国际地层委员会的 TimeScale-Creator 程序的链接，以便将来更新最新的地质年龄信息。目前在 www.fiu.edu/~collinsl/pppdatabase.html 上提供的现有馆藏信息也将更新，以包括来自巴拿马、哥斯达黎加、委内瑞拉和厄瓜多尔的新馆藏（约 825 个站点和约 2000 条记录）。该项目的主要活动是：向数据库添加新记录和信息，为所有动物样本提供更新的年龄，将数据模型实现为关系数据库，使整个数据库在网络上可用，并自动更新最新的年龄信息。额外的数据将从野外笔记本、出版物和生物地层学家报告等文件中提取。用于指定年龄的一般方法是：1) 按地层顺序对所有收集地点进行排序，2) 对每个地点进行生物地层测定，3) 与项目生物地层学家解决年龄问题，以及 4) 使用最新的年龄信息为地点指定生物年代学年龄。该项目活动的主要成果是增强科学研究知识以及学生和博士后科学家的教育。新数据库将使世界各地的科学家能够在相对精细的规模上对与大规模进化和生态过程相关的许多关键问题进行严格的测试。佛罗里达州立大学迈阿密分校和联邦认可的少数族裔机构 FIU 的一名研究生将学习数据管理和项目组织。