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

本项目将研究位于马萨诸塞州伍兹霍尔的海洋生物实验室（MBL）的生物研究历史。该项目的目标是分析和解释生物科学是如何在MBL发展的。PI和一个研究生团队将在两个夏天的每个夏天花九周的时间在MBL进行现场研究，与作为志愿顾问的科学家合作，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。选择这些地区有几个原因：它们是MBL目前的特别优势，它们已被确定为进一步发展，并且它们有特别丰富的历史资料可供研究。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品。该项目将利用一个现有的资料库，并开发数字展览，将关于每一个确定专题的所有现有信息汇集在一个地方，使所有用户都能查阅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。技术总结该团队将从这些驱动问题开始开始：MBL进行了哪些生物学研究？由于MBL，进行了哪些研究？随着时间的推移，这项研究是如何变化的，原因是什么？这项研究又是如何帮助塑造更广泛的生物学历史的？在MBL的两个暑假里，该团队将首先通过收集，整理和策划研究材料来解决这些问题;然后通过解释和分析这些材料。我们的目标不是产生一个标准或完整的机构历史，而是专注于独特的MBL的贡献，特别是在科学实践和MBL的工作方式，打破传统的界限和超越学科，机构和等级。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提供，使其可持续并易于所有人获取。该项目建立在强大的现有数字和计算基础设施上，提供功能和可持续性，是由NSF，亚利桑那州立大学和其他来源资助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.