Use High-resolution Stills to Map the Bear Position on the Falls

Mapping the bear distribution Spatial analysis of bear “occupancy” in river

spots – combines video with image processing Helps students and the public ask questions

about bear distribution. 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 hypothesesHypothesis: 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

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.

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 Develop

ment Different movements of

plants in the Rainforest Canopy using Rainforest Cams

Upper Canopy Camera

Canopy Camera

UnderCanopy Camera

View from Upper Camera

View from Canopy Camera

View from Under Camera

Upper Canopy Camera

Canopy Camera

Under Canopy Camera

Rainforest Web CamCamera Placement Viewed from Above

Rainforest Web CamDigitizing and Streaming to Internet

Stream to CNIC Server for web stream

To Museum Via LAN

Link with Texas A&T

A Computer in the Administrations BuildingDigitizes and Streams Video and Audio. Camera control signals are received via

the Internet and sent via UHF to remote cameras.

Video and Audio from Remote Cameras