Aves 3D: An Online Database of Three-dimensional Avian Skeletal Morphology (RUI)

圣十字学院获得了一笔拨款，用于建设一个开放访问的在线数据库，该数据库包含现存和最近灭绝的鸟类家族和化石分类群的单个骨骼元素的三维（3D）数字扫描。骨骼扫描、数据库生成、网络界面管理、教学资源创建以及形态学、功能和系统研究项目将由本科生在PI？他们的研究生和博士后。在线数据库还将作为提供藏品的博物馆的数字档案，并允许在全球范围内快速传播有关常见以及稀有和可能易碎标本的三维数字数据，其格式可用于广泛的二维和三维计算分析。本科生的参与包括两个月的暑期实习，然后是全年的研究项目。该数据库将作为生物研究的产物而形成，为本科生提供获得复杂仪器和软件经验的基本科学方面的机会。为研究生提供培训和指导本科生的机会，这将有助于他们为未来在学术界和工业界的领导职位做好准备。

The College of the Holy Cross is awarded a grant to construct an open access online database containing three-dimensional (3D) digital scans of the individual skeletal elements of extant and recently extinct bird families and fossil taxa. Scanning of bones, database generation, web-interface management, creation of teaching resources, and morphological, functional and systematic research projects will be carried out by undergraduate students, supervised by the PI?s, their graduate students and postdoctoral fellows. The online database will also serve as a digital archive for the collections of contributing museums and allows for rapid global dissemination of 3D digital data on common as well as rare and potentially fragile specimens, in a format ready for a wide range of two and three-dimensional computational analyses. Undergraduate student participation consists of two-month summer internships, followed by full year research projects. The database will be formed as a product of biological inquiry, providing an essential scientific dimension to undergraduate student opportunities for obtaining experience with complex instrumentation and software. Graduate students are provided with opportunities in the training and supervision of undergraduates, which will help prepare them for future leadership positions in academia and industry.