Transcript Remote video and time-lapse video for public understanding of

Use High-resolution Stills to Map the
Bear Position on the Falls
Mapping the bear distribution
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Spatial analysis of bear “occupancy” in river
spots – combines video with image processing
Helps students and the public ask questions
about bear distribution.
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How much personal space do fishing bears have?
Do bears tolerate closer associations during good
fishing?
Do females with very young cubs avoid times and
locations with many other bears?
Maps help test hypotheses
Hypothesis: Females with
cubs of the year avoid other
bears by distancing
themselves from other bears or
by coming to the falls when
other bears are not there.
This female is far away
from the other bears in
the main aggregation at
the falls.
Image J analysis of bear populations
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Simple mapping program in Image J – the
marking tool.
Produce montages of the river scans (researchers)
Provide montages and directions for analysis to
HS teachers, students, and undergraduates, and
graduate students
Collect data from students, compare quality of
data, and record data
Web Discovery Interface for
Education – Incorporate Maps
Calendar and Times
Web Interface for Education – lab
notebook blog – daily discoveries
Example of daily discovery: Female
places herself between threatening
male and young
Archived Video of Research from
Wolong will be compared with the
Research Video of Grizzly Behavior
Panda Nursing Behavior
Partnership with Xishuangbanna
Tropical Botanical Garden
Partner projects looking at the diversity of gene function
in a model system, Arabidopsis, with the biodiversity
preserved in the Tropical Botanical Garden.
 Time lapse imaging of mutant and wild type Arabidopsis
plants: Discover the function of new genes.
 Time lapse imaging of rainforest plants: Discover the
diversity of plant gene function in a natural environment.
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Plant Genomics
and
Imaging.
Objective of this design:
To engage students in
authentic scientific inquiry outside
the “normal” student concepts to
allow them to see scientific
inquiry as a dynamic, creative
process.
Specific Project:
Using both wild and
mutated varieties of seed,
students take time lapse video
of germination and early
development. Students will
compare the wild to the mutated
varieties to make predictions of
the function of the gene based on
observation.
Time lapse
movie of
mutant and wild
type
Arabidopsis –
wild type
growth
Time lapse of wildtype (left)
compared to mutant (right)
Comparison of Time-Lapse Movies of
Arabidopsis with Time-Lapse Movies
of Rainforest Plants.
 Flower
movements.
 Leaf movements.
 Plant Growth and
Development
 Different movements of
plants in the Rainforest
Canopy using Rainforest
Cams
Upper
Canopy
Camera
Canopy
Camera
View from Upper Camera
Under
Canopy
Camera
View from Canopy Camera
View from Under Camera
Upper Canopy
Camera
Canopy
Camera
Under Canopy
Camera
Rainforest Web Cam
Camera Placement Viewed from Above
Rainforest Web Cam
Digitizing and Streaming to Internet
Stream to CNIC
Server for web
stream
Video
and
Audio
from
Remote
Cameras
To Museum Via
LAN
Link with Texas
A&T
A Computer in the Administrations Building
Digitizes and Streams Video and Audio.
Camera control signals are received via
the Internet and sent via UHF to remote cameras.