IDBR: Type A. Photovoltaics allow ultra-miniaturized, long-life, wildlife tags

康奈尔大学获得了一项奖励，以资助通过开发新一代轻量级但功能强大的标签来跟踪和监测脊椎动物物种的种类和数量的急剧增加。 康奈尔大学的TABER（动物生物学和环境研究技术）小组的工作就像是工程专业学生的现实项目团队。在这个项目的过程中，首席研究员和专业工程师将与至少十几名工程专业的学生互动，他们将与生物学家和专业工程师互动，设计和生产设备，这些设备将立即应用于回答有关野生动物生物学和保护的现实问题。这将为学生提供一个独特的机会，让他们的设计工作在康奈尔大学之外有所作为。由于传播计划的结构，每个新设计的推出都是世界各地合作科学家研究的一部分，这种使用在基础和应用生物学和生态学以及世界各地潜在用户和合作者之间的“口碑”传播中产生了更广泛的影响。 将资助一名研究生制作多用途电路板，沿着传感器设计和建造技术的教学材料，在Seeed Studio上分发，从而使环境传感器能够提供给广泛的受众。工程学院、农学院、生命科学院以及康奈尔大学鸟类学实验室的教育和多媒体小组将尽可能通过高效的通信网络传递项目进展的消息。通过开发通用可编程标签（GPT）和数字转门标签（DTT），这个项目将扩展标签的极限，使标签的寿命更长。 GPT的功能很像传统的寻呼机标签，具有有限的遥测数据的能力，但体积小（约100毫米）。0.4（2）寿命比大多数鸟类都长。在标签设计和天线放置方面的改进建议应该会大大减少鸟类佩戴标签的问题，并且建议的信息基础设施将从编程到部署都遵循标签，这应该会使标签id数据对所有用户来说都具有高度的功能和可靠性。这种标签有可能彻底改变鸟类迁徙的实时监测和扩散的研究。拟议中的DTT质量将下降到1 g，尽管最初它将被优化以收集太阳能地理定位数据，但同一平台可以用于开放式实验室平台中非常广泛的传感应用。在地理定位功能方面，DTT将利用最近在地理定位记录仪方面取得的所有进展，并通过消除在非常小的包中重复捕获数据恢复的要求，大大扩大该技术可以应用的物种范围。

An award is made to Cornell University to fund a dramatic increase in the kinds and numbers of vertebrate species that can be tracked and monitored by the development of a new generation of lightweight yet highly functional tags. The work of the TABER (Technology for Animal Biology and Environmental Research) group at Cornell is like a real-life project team for engineering students. In the course of this project, the principal investigator and professional engineers will interact with at least a dozen engineering students, and they will interact with biologists and professional engineers in designing and producing devices that will be applied immediately to answer real-world questions about wildlife biology and conservation. This will give students a distinctive chance to have their design efforts make a difference outside Cornell. Because of the structure of the dissemination plan, the roll out of each new design is part of the research of collaborating scientists around the world, and this use has broader impacts in both basic and applied biology and ecology and "word of mouth" circulation among potential users and collaborators world-wide. A graduate student will be funded to make environmental sensors available to a very wide audience by producing multi-purpose boards to be distributed on Seeed Studio, along with instructional materials on sensor design and construction techniques. News of the project's progress will be passed whenever possible through a network of highly effective communication colleagues in the Colleges of Engineering and Agriculture and Life Sciences and the Education and Multimedia groups at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.Through the development of a General-purpose Programmable Tag (GPT) and a Digital Turnstile Tag (DTT), this project will extend the limits of how small extremely long-lived tags can be. The GPT functions much like traditional beeper tags, with limited abilities to telemeter data, but small size (ca. 0.4 g) and a lifespan longer than that of most birds. Proposed improvements in tag design and antenna placement should dramatically decrease problems for birds wearing the tags, and the proposed information infrastructure that will follow the tags from programming to deployment should make the tag id data highly functional and reliable for all users. This tag has the potential to revolutionize the real-time monitoring of bird migration and the study of dispersal. The proposed DTT would decline to as little as 1 g in mass, and, though it will be optimized to collect solar geolocation data at first, the same platform could be used for an extremely broad array of sensing applications in an open-ended Lab-on-a-Bird platform. In its geolocation function, the DTT would leverage all the progress that has been made recently with geolocation loggers and extend dramatically the range of species to which the technology can be applied by removing the requirement for repeat capture for data recovery in a very small package.