RAPID: Scanning an Orca Skeleton at the Sitka Sound Science Center

这是一个快速项目，以完成对幼年虎鲸骨架的高分辨率扫描，以纳入北极项目虚拟动物考古学收藏（VZAP），该项目目前由北极社会科学计划支持。 VZAP是一个“虚拟的，互动的，骨骼学参考收集北方脊椎动物的研究。" 正如PI解释的那样，完整的虎鲸骨架非常罕见，这是一个独特的机会，可以将青少年骨架添加到VZAP收藏中。 快速的原因是，锡特卡声音科学中心，谁拥有骨架的机构，目前正在重新连接虎鲸骨架的过程中，放在他们的博物馆展出。 为了扫描骨骼，必须将其分离，因为该中心正在将其作为一个社区项目来做，他们不能等到3月17日至24日继续进行关节连接项目，3月11日的那一周提供了扫描这些骨骼的最后机会。

This is a RAPID project to complete the high resolution scanning of a juvenile orca skeleton for inclusion in the Virtual Zooarchaeology of the Arctic Project collection (VZAP), a project that is currently supported by the Arctic Social Sciences Program. VZAP is a "virtual, interactive, osteological reference collection for the study of northern vertebrates." As the PI explains, full orca skeletons are very rare and this is a unique opportunity to add a juvenile skeleton to the VZAP collection. The reason for the RAPID is that the Sitka Sound Science Center, the institutions who owns the skeleton, is currently in the process of rearticulating the orca skeleton to put on display in their museum. In order to scan the skeleton it must be disarticulated and because the Center is doing this as a community project they cannot wait before continuing the articulation project, which will take place March 17th-24th,the week of March 11th offers the last opportunity to scan these bones.