EAGER: Time Traveler

渴望：时间旅行者

• 批准号: 1116343
• 负责人: Warren Porter
• 金额: $ 2.99万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-01 至 2012-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1116343&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Time; Traveler

This project will develop a bioinformatics computational platform that crosses the disciplinary boundaries of art and science. It connects 3-D object animation with computational fluid dynamics, heat and mass transfer engineering, morphology, physiology, behavior, ecology, evolution, earth sciences, remote-sensing and GIS technologies. This research addresses the question: "What has been/is/will be the role of climate, topography and plant environments in defining animal body sizes, shapes and distributions in the geological past, the present and future?" This work will include the use of state-of-the-art mechanistic models of global and local environments and selected terrestrial and marine vertebrates and invertebrates. The approach is very cross disciplinary involving genetics, biochemistry, and engineering/physics-based heat, mass and momentum transfer models of animals in terrestrial and marine environments. The investigators will be modeling mobile animals that can select their local physical environments on an hourly basis throughout the year and for multiple years to define growth potential, reproductive potential and distribution limits. The results of this project will generate computational and database resources and tools for scientific research, high school and college student instruction and interactive lay public access to computer explorations of how ancient, modern and future environments have altered, or will alter how and where species can successfully exist on earth. This research will develop resources useful to governmental regulatory agencies, university and NGO scientists as well as policy specialists, and will lead to advances in understanding the biophysics, energetics, behavior, ecology and evolution of animals. This work will create opportunities to pique the curiosity of young students and the lay public, and create a virtual environment where they can explore the constraints that define the kinds of animals that can successfully survive, grow and reproduce in local environments. These computer resources will be developed and made available on a website accessible via http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/faculty/Por/Por.html.

该项目将开发一个跨越艺术和科学学科界限的生物信息学计算平台。它将 3D 对象动画与计算流体动力学、传热传质工程、形态学、生理学、行为、生态学、进化、地球科学、遥感和 GIS 技术连接起来。这项研究解决了这样一个问题：“在地质过去、现在和未来，气候、地形和植物环境在定义动物体型、形状和分布方面已经/现在/将会发挥什么作用？”这项工作将包括使用最先进的全球和当地环境机械模型以及选定的陆地和海洋脊椎动物和无脊椎动物。该方法是非常跨学科的，涉及陆地和海洋环境中动物的遗传学、生物化学和基于工程/物理的热、质量和动量传递模型。研究人员将对移动动物进行建模，这些动物可以全年每小时选择当地的物理环境，并持续多年，以确定生长潜力、繁殖潜力和分布限制。该项目的成果将产生用于科学研究、高中和大学生教学的计算和数据库资源和工具，以及交互式公众访问计算机探索古代、现代和未来环境如何改变，或将改变物种在地球上成功生存的方式和地点。这项研究将为政府监管机构、大学和非政府组织科学家以及政策专家开发有用的资源，并将促进对动物生物物理学、能量学、行为、生态和进化的理解。这项工作将创造机会激发年轻学生和普通公众的好奇心，并创建一个虚拟环境，让他们可以探索定义能够在当地环境中成功生存、生长和繁殖的动物种类的限制因素。 这些计算机资源将被开发并在可通过 http://www.zoology.wisc.edu/faculty/Por/Por.html 访问的网站上提供。