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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Tony Coates. Timecode In: 00:00:04. Timecode out: 00:29:03. Notes: Geology; Paleoecology. Subject 2: (Interview). Subtitle: Jeremy Jackson. Timecode In: 00:29:57. Timecode out: 01:04:33. Notes: Geology; Paleoecology. Equipment Notes: Stereo=1; Stereo. NPR/National Geographic RADIO EXPEDITIONS Panama - Dar1en DAT #7 Tony Coates and Jeremy Jackson in the Lab 00:02 ac: this is the laboratory of tony coates back in Panama city it's a good size room, with a tile floor, air condition --not at all like the field, there's a very orderly chart -or map case over on the wall and several filing cases labeled, and tony's samples from the field are bagged here. they are ready to be shipped off to the university of Michigan? tc: right. tc: that's because they are micro-samples. if they were macro they would go to GIDA at the lab at Nouse. ac: and, um, and then there are tables with some of tony's field books and notes and there is a sink over there -Zania, his lab assistant is here. tc: and that's a stack of special cases that contain all of the geological and topographic maps of Panama and all of the surrounding countries that we have been or shortly go to, so it covers most of central America. ac: and here are your field notes laid out. tc: um, we are going in two directions with information that we brought in the field notebooks. one is to get them into the data base -a sample of which is here, and you can see there's a list of numbers down the side, and those numbers key to dates collected -the sea is caribbean versus pacific, and then country, location in more precise detail, and then you can see a description, whether it's equivalent to some other place this is 1.2 NW of etc., and then the actual latitude and longitude. and that's particularly important because this is all geographic information about where the sample comes from, and Zania will utilize this, particularly this latitude longitude operation, to digitize it on to a map. and if you look through at the other office there, there's a digitizing pad you see it there on the table¬ ac: oh yes tc: and Zania will follow the outline of any area that we are stUdying to make a detailed map. she will create the map that she can project on to the screen there. and then, if she digitizes each of the localities then at some future date we can call for all the specimens from the dariendara 4 million years old, and the program would simply select from the data base those samples plot them using those latitude and longitude on to the map already digitize and anyone could have a map of any of the particular samples or even the particular fossils -a species from that have been isolated from the sample you could then for us -you remember we were talking about strong binned gastropods can we have a map of strombina alex chadwickensis from anywhere that we have mapped. and it would just plan out a locality map of that one species. or, all of the mollusks or which mollusks are only on the pacific side. so it's just a simple way of being able to ask questions to manipulate the data for biogeographic and evolutionary information. so that number keys across into all of that. then the -that's the locality data base. there is also the same -those same set of numbers can key you into what has happened to the sample -¬who's got it, what have they done with it, what was in it, etc. which maybe splits of it, one was sent -we had a microsample that was sent to Michigan, but at that same location we got ten bags of bulk sample; four of which are being processed for mollusks in basel, and two are being processed for briazoa in Panama, and that data base will keep track of who's got it, what they found in it, and that sort of geologic information if you like. That's one aspect of this operation. Now, we described in the field that my job that my job was t... (Notes truncated)
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- 15 Mar 2005 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 15 Mar 2005 - Ben Brotman
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- 15 Mar 2005 - Ben Brotman