Standard Grant: New Approaches to Interpreting the development of science at the Marine Biological Laboratory

普通观众摘要该项目将研究马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔海洋生物实验室 (MBL) 的生物研究历史。该项目的目标是分析和解释 MBL 生物科学的发展历程。 PI 和研究生团队将在两个夏天各花九周时间在 MBL 进行现场研究，与担任志愿者顾问的科学家合作，记录和解释其历史。该小组确定了四个重点领域：胚胎学、细胞生物学、神经生物学和生态系统/生物多样性。选择这些区域有几个原因：它们目前在 MBL 中具有特殊的优势，它们已被确定为进一步发展，并且它们拥有特别丰富的历史材料可供研究。主要目标是在其他研究来源的背景下分析这些材料，以产生传统的学术叙述以及解释 MBL 生物学历史的创新数字展览。该项目利用现有的存储库并开发数字展览，将每个定义主题的所有现有信息汇集并链接到一个地方，使所有用户都可以访问研究材料和解释性文章。此外，该项目还将培训研究生如何将传统的历史研究与创新的数字和计算方法结合起来。技术摘要团队将从这些驱动性问题开始：MBL 进行了哪些生物学研究？ MBL 已经做了哪些研究？随着时间的推移，这项研究发生了怎样的变化？原因是什么？这项研究如何帮助更广泛地塑造生物学史？在 MBL 紧张工作的两个夏天，团队将首先通过收集、整理和整理研究材料来解决这些问题；然后通过解释和分析这些材料。目标不是产生标准或完整的机构历史，而是专注于独特的 MBL 贡献，特别关注科学实践以及 MBL 打破传统界限并超越学科、机构和等级的方式。研究材料和研究产品将通过开放获取、开源和知识共享许可的方式提供，以便所有人都能轻松获取和可持续使用。该项目建立在强大的现有数字和计算基础设施之上，提供功能和可持续性，并且是由 NSF、亚利桑那州立大学和其他来源的其他资金开发的大规模数字和计算研究系统和存储库的一部分。

General Audience SummaryThis project will study the history of biological research at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The goal of the project is to analyze and interpret how biological science has evolved at MBL. The PI and a team of graduate students will spend nine weeks in each of two summers to carry out research on site at MBL, working with scientists serving as volunteer consultants to document and interpret its history. The group has identified four focal areas: embryology, cell biology, neurobiology, and ecosystems/biodiversity. These areas were chosen for several reasons: they are of currently particular strengths at the MBL, they have been identified for further development, and they have particularly rich historical materials available for study. The primary goal is to analyze those materials in the context of other research sources to produce traditional scholarly narratives as well as innovative digital exhibits that interpret the history of biology at MBL. Using an existing repository and developing digital exhibits that bring together and link all the existing information on each defined topic in one place, the project will make research materials and interpretative essays accessible to all users. In addition, the project will train graduate students in ways to bring together traditional historical research with innovative digital and computational methods.Technical SummaryThe team will begin with these driving questions: What biological research has been done at MBL? What research has been done because of MBL? How has that research changed over time, and for what reasons? And how has that research helped shape the history of biology more generally? During two summers working intensely at MBL, the team will address these questions first by collecting, collating, and curating research materials; and then by interpreting and analyzing these materials. The goal is not to produce a standard or complete institutional history but rather to focus on uniquely MBL contributions, looking especially at scientific practices and the way MBL has worked to break down traditional boundaries and transcend disciplines, institutions, and ranks. The research materials as well as the research products will be made available through open access, open source and Creative Commons licensing so that they are sustainable and easily accessible for all. The project builds on strong existing digital and computational infrastructure that provides functionality and sustainability and is part of a large scale digital and computational research system and repository developed with other funding from NSF, Arizona State University, and other sources.