<div dir="ltr">Dear nhcoll members,<div><br></div><div>I was recently awarded an internship by the Building a Community of Natural History Collections RCN to develop best practices protocols for the use of 3D photogrammetry as a means of creating digital archives of vertebrate skeletal material (<a href="http://www.collectionsweb.org/get_involved/getinvolved_internships.htm">http://www.collectionsweb.org/get_involved/getinvolved_internships.htm</a>). A key part of this project is to assess the precision of photogrammetry models across a range of skeletal element shapes and sizes, or at the very least, across the range of shapes and sizes of the most commonly studied skeletal elements. But first I need to figure out which skeletal elements are studied most often.</div>
<div><br></div><div>To that end, I have posted a short (4 questions + optional comments) <b>survey</b> for natural history curators and collections managers here: <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/68ZZD8H">https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/68ZZD8H</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>Please note that the survey's questions intentionally <i>do not </i>ask for information about data collection using CT or microCT.</div><div><br></div><div>It would be a great help to me and some small help to the RCN if you could take a few minutes to respond to this survey. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Thank you very much for your time.</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,<br>David Katz</div><div><div><br></div>-- <br>David Katz<br>Doctoral Candidate<br>Department of Anthropology--Evolutionary Wing<br>
University of California, Davis<br>Young Hall 204<br>
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