Month: April 2015

April 18, 2015 ScienceEveryday (medical imaging is separate) Post a Comment

Need to relocate some wolves

Need to relocate some wolves

With a moose population around 1,200, we need to relocate some wolves to Isle Royale National Park. As the article mentions, too many herbivores without a top predator is not sustainable. Climate change has reduced the number and frequency of ice bridges. That limits the introduction of new wolves to the gene pool. So inbreeding has limited the ability of wolves to maintain their population on the island. #ThanksClimateChange  

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You can read more about the wolf repopulation program at Yellowstone National Park here:

http://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/nature/wolfrest.htm

#ScienceEveryday  

http://news.yahoo.com/scientists-3-wolves-remain-isle-royale-national-park-230703927.html

April 10, 2015 ScienceEveryday (medical imaging is separate) Post a Comment

Street View for Art

Street View for Art

Yet another cool project from Google. The I’d like to see the California Academy of Sciences’s collection in person. It reminds me of a National Science Foundation grant I worked on. The primary investigator, Callum Ross at the University of Chicago, needed CT images of primate skulls to model how they chew. The idea was to show how the available diet was an evolutionary force to change their skull/jaw structure. I scanned about 50 skulls in two days. The skulls were on loan from The Field Museum, which has an impressive collection and does research as well.

You can read more here:

Evolutionary forces – Working Together

http://goo.gl/xvXxS

I’ve also worked with the Oriental Institute

Eye of Horus post:

http://goo.gl/qpxyh

Mummy bird images from JP:

http://goo.gl/x5e2S

h/t Yonatan Zunger 

Originally shared by Google Arts & Culture

Today, we’re glad to announce the launch of the new 3D feature on the Google Cultural Institute website: http://goo.gl/1p93XR

You can now admire hundreds of multi-dimensional objects from our six pilot partners’ collections, from the extensive set of animal skulls of the California Academy of Sciences (http://goo.gl/xQyk3F) to the Oldest Mask in the world at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem(http://goo.gl/HtGFhy). #3D #artstech