MRI-R2 Consortium: Acquisition of Multi-Scalar Spatial Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization Instruments

MRI-R2 联盟：获取多标量空间数据采集、分析和可视化仪器

• 批准号: 0960077
• 负责人: Patricia Lambert
• 金额: $ 41.83万
• 依托单位: Utah State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-01 至 2013-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0960077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; R2; Consortium; Acquisition; Multi

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).With support from a National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation grant, Utah State University (USU) will purchase an integrated system of instruments that facilitates collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of anthropological spatial data at a variety of scales. For the collection of field data, the research team will acquire ground-penetrating radar, resistivity, and magnetometry systems for collecting sub-surface spatial data; GPS units with sub-meter accuracy, a robotic total station, and a balloon aerial photography system for efficiently compiling spatial data from landscapes; x-ray, video microscope, and 3-D scanning devices to extract precise spatial data from artifacts and ecofacts; and GIS-equipped, networked computers to process and disseminate these data. The NSF-MRI award represents a collaborative application by a consortium of entities including the USU Anthropology Program, the USU Museum of Anthropology, USU's Regional Campuses and Distance Education (RCDE), and the newly launched small, private business USU Archaeological Services, Inc. Eight individuals will serve as major users of the equipment: six archaeologists, one biological anthropologist, and one cultural anthropologist. Despite users' varied backgrounds and research foci, the NSF-MRI grant will provide the resources necessary for each researcher to increase the efficiency of data collection, interpretation, and publication. The award will also enhance users' research opportunities and open up new avenues for collaboration within and outside the consortium.The broader impacts of the NSF-MRI grant reside primarily in the dramatic changes it will bring to education in anthropology at USU's main campus and USU's Regional Campuses and Distance Education (RCDE). In fall 2009, USU's first cohort of M.S. students began a graduate program designed to prepare them for jobs in the private and government sectors of archaeology, which host 90% of jobs in the field. These sectors are often better funded than academic programs and routinely use the array of instruments the NSF award will fund. In addition to using the instruments to facilitate their own research, USU faculty members will also use them to prepare Utah State students to serve as the next generation of highly sought-after, technologically skilled anthropologists.Utah State University anthropologists are particularly excited about RCDE's involvement in the NSF-MRI consortium. RCDE will outfit the Logan-based instrument laboratory with broadcast capability. This will permit anthropology faculty members to reach students at regional centers across the state of Utah and as far away as East Asia, enabling and enlisting them to participate in original scientific research. Many of USU's Distance students are of Navajo, Northern Ute, Shoshone, and Latino descent. By incorporating them into the Anthropology Program's diverse research as USU's archaeological and museum internships for Native American and Latino high school students have done for years, the NSF-MRI grant will help increase the diversity of future professionals in the field of anthropology. Finally, the USU Museum of Anthropology will provide a vehicle for disseminating to a large, public audience the results of cutting-edge research generated by USU and USUAS scientists and the importance of science generally and anthropology specifically in the world today.

该奖项由 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）资助。在国家科学基金会重大研究仪器拨款的支持下，犹他州立大学 (USU) 将购买一套集成仪器系统，以促进收集、各种尺度的人类学空间数据的分析、解释和呈现。 为了收集现场数据，研究小组将购买探地雷达、电阻率和磁力测量系统，以收集地下空间数据；具有亚米级精度的 GPS 装置、机器人全站仪和气球航空摄影系统，用于有效地收集景观空间数据； X 射线、视频显微镜和 3D 扫描设备，用于从文物和生态事实中提取精确的空间数据；配备地理信息系统的联网计算机来处理和传播这些数据。 NSF-MRI 奖代表了包括 USU 人类学项目、USU 人类学博物馆、USU 地区校园和远程教育 (RCDE) 以及新成立的小型私营企业 USU 考古服务公司在内的实体联盟的合作申请。八个人将作为该设备的主要用户：六名考古学家、一名生物人类学家和一名文化人类学家。 尽管用户的背景和研究重点各不相同，但 NSF-MRI 拨款将为每位研究人员提供必要的资源，以提高数据收集、解释和出版的效率。 该奖项还将增加用户的研究机会，并为联盟内外的合作开辟新的途径。 NSF-MRI 资助的更广泛影响主要在于它将给 USU 主校区和 USU 的人类学教育带来巨大的变化。地区校园和远程教育（RCDE）。 2009 年秋季，USU 的第一批硕士生学生们开始了研究生课程，旨在为他们在私营和政府考古部门的工作做好准备，这些部门占据了该领域 90% 的工作岗位。 这些部门通常比学术项目获得更多资助，并且通常使用 NSF 奖项资助的一系列工具。 除了使用这些仪器来促进自己的研究之外，USU 教员还将使用它们来帮助犹他州立大学的学生成为下一代备受追捧、技术精湛的人类学家。犹他州立大学人类学家对 RCDE 的参与感到特别兴奋在 NSF-MRI 联盟中。 RCDE 将为位于洛根的仪器实验室配备广播功能。 这将使人类学教师能够接触到犹他州乃至东亚地区中心的学生，使他们能够参与原创科学研究。 许多 USU 远程学生都是纳瓦霍人、北尤特人、肖肖尼人和拉丁裔后裔。 通过将它们纳入人类学项目的多样化研究中，就像 USU 多年来为美洲原住民和拉丁裔高中生进行的考古和博物馆实习一样，NSF-MRI 拨款将有助于增加人类学领域未来专业人员的多样性。 最后，USU 人类学博物馆将提供一个工具，向广大公众传播 USU 和 USUAS 科学家的前沿研究成果，以及当今世界科学和人类学的重要性。