Improvement in Data Collection Tools for Field Biology

现场生物学数据收集工具的改进

• 批准号: 9651451
• 负责人: Judith Parrish
• 金额: $ 1.28万
• 依托单位: Millikin University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 1998-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9651451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improvement; Data; Collection; Tools; Field

Millikin University Biology Department will use computer- interfaced field data collection equipment to expand the kinds of field problems that can be addressed by students at all levels, both biology majors, and education majors and other non-majors. Accurate, data-logging field sensors of light quality and intensity, air and soil temperature, and of dissolved oxygen and temperature at various depths of aquatic systems, will be coupled with portable and durable field microscopes, night vision glasses, and instrumentation to measure plant moisture stress and photosynthesis, for individual and group problem-solving in courses using the Lake Sara Retreat Center as a field site. Improved environmental measurement systems, plant response meters, and field observation tools will provide rapid and unambiguous answers to student-initiated questions, reinforcing investigative skills. Students can then focus on the scientific thinking involved in formulating and refining hypotheses, designing experiments, and interpreting data. This will lead to better understanding of processes and therefore better research and/or dissemination of concepts to their future students.

米利金大学生物系将使用计算机接口的现场数据收集设备来扩展各个级别的学生可以解决的现场问题的种类，包括生物学专业、教育专业和其他非专业的学生。精确的数据记录现场传感器，用于测量光质量和强度、空气和土壤温度以及水生系统不同深度的溶解氧和温度，将与便携式耐用的现场显微镜、夜视镜和植物测量仪器相结合湿度胁迫和光合作用，以萨拉湖静修中心为现场场地，帮助个人和小组解决课程中的问题。改进的环境测量系统、植物响应仪和现场观察工具将为学生提出的问题提供快速、明确的答案，从而增强调查技能。然后，学生可以专注于制定和完善假设、设计实验和解释数据所涉及的科学思维。这将有助于更好地理解过程，从而更好地研究和/或向未来的学生传播概念。