Digitization PEN: oMEGA - Online Metrology of Extant Giant Animals for the oVert TCN

数字化 PEN：oMEGA - oVert TCN 现存巨型动物在线计量

• 批准号: 1802491
• 负责人: Leif Tapanila
• 金额: $ 17.58万
• 依托单位: Idaho State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1802491&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; oMEGA; Online; Metrology

This is a Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) award to the Idaho Museum of Natural History to partner with the Open Vertebrate (oVert) Thematic Collections Network (TCN). The oVert TCN is creating high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) data for internal anatomy across the diversity of vertebrate animals. Using computed tomography (CT) scanners at institutional collections across the US, more than 20,000 fluid-preserved specimens will be scanned and made available online for open public use. This PEN complements the oVert TCN program by including vertebrate animals too large to be preserved in fluid or scanned by conventional CT scanners. The oMEGA PEN will use portable surface scanners to provide high-resolution scans of skeletons of large vertebrate animals curated at Harvard, Berkeley, and California Academy of Sciences. The addition of large vertebrates, including whales and elephants, provides an important segment of the animal world to open access collections for researchers and educators. The process of creating this 3D resource will provide training for undergraduate students, and on-site workshops for collections staff. Skeletal models will support TCN activities in creating K-12 STEM lesson plans and 3D-printable resources for the classroom. The digitized skeletons acquired in this PEN will help fill a major gap in the original TCN and support its research theme on the evolution of vertebrate morphological diversity. By virtue of their large size, vertebrates exceeding 250 kg define upper boundaries of size-dependent anatomical form and function, and therefore push the limits on development and physiology. These skeletal data will provide new opportunities to evaluate gigantism and the tendency of animal lineages toward ever-larger body size. Combined with the other oVert 3D specimens, the TCN's digital collection distributed through MorphoSource and iDigBio will inspire new research questions and provide the raw materials to test hypotheses in a broad range of biosciences.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这是一个合作伙伴现有网络（PEN）奖爱达荷州自然历史博物馆与开放脊椎动物（oVert）专题收藏网络（TCN）的合作伙伴。 oVert TCN正在为各种脊椎动物的内部解剖结构创建高分辨率的三维（3D）数据。 在美国各地的机构收藏中使用计算机断层扫描（CT）扫描仪，将扫描超过20，000个液体保存的标本，并在线提供给公众使用。 该PEN补充了oVert TCN计划，包括太大而无法保存在液体中或用传统CT扫描仪扫描的脊椎动物。 oMEGA PEN将使用便携式表面扫描仪，为哈佛、伯克利和加州科学院的大型脊椎动物骨骼提供高分辨率扫描。 包括鲸鱼和大象在内的大型脊椎动物的加入，为研究人员和教育工作者提供了动物世界的一个重要部分。 创建这个3D资源的过程将为本科生提供培训，并为收藏工作人员提供现场研讨会。 Skeleton模型将支持TCN活动，为课堂创建K-12 STEM课程计划和3D打印资源。 在这个PEN中获得的数字化骨骼将有助于填补原始TCN中的一个主要空白，并支持其关于脊椎动物形态多样性进化的研究主题。 由于它们的大尺寸，超过250公斤的脊椎动物定义了尺寸依赖的解剖形式和功能的上限，因此推动了发育和生理学的极限。 这些骨骼数据将提供新的机会，以评估动物谱系向更大的身体大小的趋势。 通过MorphoSource和iDigBio分发的TCN数字标本集与其他oVert 3D标本相结合，将激发新的研究问题，并为检验广泛的生物科学假设提供原材料。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。