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- Creator:
- Umaña, María Natalia, Zambrano, Jenny, Weemstra, Monique, and Allen, Dave
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- The objective of this research was to improve our understanding of tree growth from underlying variation in leaf and root functional traits. This knowledge ultimately enhances our knowledge of the above- and belowground processes that are involved in structuring forest communities. To this end, we determine which, how and to what degree (combinations of) leaf and root traits influence growth rates across ten temperate tree species along a soil carbon (C) and N gradient growing at the Big Woods plot at the E.S. George Reserve, Pickney, MI. This plot is part of the Smithsonian Institution's Forest Global Earth Observatory (ForestGEO) global network of forest research sites. https://forestgeo.si.edu/ and This dataset contains data on the leaf and root traits of several individuals from tree species, as well as on the soil properties at the Big Woods plots at the E.S. George Reserve, Pickney, MI. Data were collected in June 2019, and used to explain and predict the growth rates of the trees at Big Woods. [Growth data were obtained from Allen et al., 2019, https://doi.org/10.7302/wx55-kt18]. Each file contains data on leaf traits, root traits, and soil properties. Trait data are presented per individual tree for each of the 10 study species. Soil data are represented per soil sample, with four soil samples collected per subplot throughout the Big Woods plot (see legend, and publication for explanation). Descriptions and units per variable/column are provided in the legend tab in each file.
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- ecology, forests, Michigan, ForestGEO, Big Woods, Roots, Leaves, Tree growth, and Forest soils
- Citation to related publication:
- M. Weemstra, J. Zambrano, D. Allen, MN Umaña. (In press) Tree growth increases through opposing above- and belowground resource strategies. Journal of Ecology. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2745.13729
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Yuan, Ye, Currie, William S., Sharp, Sean J. , Martina, Jason P. , and Elgersma, Kenneth J.
- Description:
- This archived dataset includes all of the input files that were used to run the model for all the runs in this set, including files containing model parameters and drivers. This dataset also includes all of the model output files from model runs in this set.
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- wetland, Great Lakes, greenhouse gas, climate change, and ecosystem model
- Citation to related publication:
- Yuan, Y., S. J. Sharp, J. P. Martina, K. J. Elgersma, and W. S. Currie. Sustained-flux global warming potential driven by nitrogen inflow and hydroperiod in a model of Great Lakes coastal wetlands. JGR Biogeosciences in review.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Vo, Thi and Glotzer, Sharon C.
- Description:
- The goal of this project is to develop a first principle driven approach for predicting the self-assembly behavior of entropically driven crystallization. We first developed a set of mean-field theoretical framework that captures the relevant energetic contributions to the assembly process and then evaluate relevant terms within our framework to determine the excess free energy of formation for each lattice (matlab/octave codes). We then validate theoretical predictions of relevant features like shape and bonding orbitals using standard MD simulations using HOOMD-Blue (simulation scripts). and This research was supported by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)), Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic, Award number HQ00342010030.
- Keyword:
- Self-Assembly, Entropy, Thermodynamics, Simulations, and Theory
- Citation to related publication:
- Vo, T., & Glotzer, S. C. (2021). Microscopic Theory of Entropic Bonding for Colloidal Crystal Prediction. ArXiv:2107.02081 [Cond-Mat]. http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02081
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Liu, Meichen
- Description:
- The Brune source model is widely used in studies of complex earthquakes with multiple episodes of high moment release (i.e., multiple subevents). In this study, we investigate how corner frequency estimates of earthquakes with multiple subevents are biased if they are based on the Brune source model. By assuming complex sources as a sum of multiple Brune sources, we analyze 1,640 source time functions (STFs) of Mw 5.5-8.0 earthquakes in the SCARDEC catalog to estimate the corner frequencies, onset times, and seismic moments of subevents. We identify more subevents for strike-slip earthquakes than dip-slip earthquakes, and the number of resolvable subevents increases with magnitude. We find that earthquake corner frequency correlates best with the corner frequency of the subevent with the highest moment release (i.e., the largest subevent). This suggests that, when the Brune model is used, the estimated corner frequency and therefore the stress drop of a complex earthquake is determined primarily by the largest subevent rather than the total rupture area. and Our results imply that the stress variation of asperities, rather than the average stress change of the whole fault, contributes to the large variance of stress drop estimates.
- Citation to related publication:
- Meichen Liu, Yihe Huang, Jeroen Ritsema. 2021. Characterizing Multi-Subevent Earthquakes Using the Brune Source Model [Preprint]. https://essoar.org (2021) DOI: doi.org/10.1002/essoar.10507564.1
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Umaña, María Natalia and Arellano, Gabriel
- Description:
- The objective of this study was to examine the existence of congruent tree growth responses to different extreme climatic events –hurricanes and drought–affecting tropical wet forests.
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- Dendrometers , El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico, and Tropical Forests
- Citation to related publication:
- Umaña, M.N.and Arellano G. In press. Legacy effects of drought on tree growth responses to hurricanes. Ecography. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecog.05803
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- Science
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Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems (BIRDS) Lab
User Collection- Creator:
- Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- Professor Revzen and his team at the Biologically Inspired Robotics and Dynamical Systems (BIRDS) Lab are working on discovering, modeling, and reproducing the strategies animals use when interacting with physical objects. This work consists of collaboration with biomechanists to analyze experimental data, developing new mathematical tools for modeling and estimation of model parameters, and construction of robots which employ the new principles.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Bougher, S. W. (CLaSP Department, University of Michigan)
- Description:
- The NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft, which is currently in orbit around Mars, has been taking systematic measurements of the densities and deriving temperatures in the upper atmosphere of Mars between about 140 to 240 km above the surface since late 2014. Wind measurement campaigns are also conducted once per month for 5-10 orbits. These densities, temperatures and winds change with time (e.g. solar cycle, season, local time) and location, and sometimes fluctuate quickly. Global dust storm events are also known to significantly impact these density, temperature and wind fields in the Mars thermosphere. For the current project, the inert light species helium is used to trace the circulation patterns and constrain wind magnitudes throughout the Mars thermosphere. Presently, more than 6 years of Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) measurements of helium densities have been obtained by the MAVEN team (e.g. Elrod et al., 2017; 2021; Gupta et al., 2021). Measured helium distributions are compared to simulations from a computer model of the Mars atmosphere called M-GITM (Mars Global Ionosphere-Thermosphere Model), developed at U. of Michigan. Since the global circulation plays a role in the structure, variability, and evolution of the atmosphere, understanding the processes that drive the winds in the upper atmosphere of Mars also provides the needed context for understanding helium distributions and how the atmosphere behaves as a whole system. Three dimensional M-GITM simulations for the Mars four cardinal seasons (Ls = 0, 90, 180, 270, for Mars Year 33) were conducted for detailed comparisons with NGIMS helium and CO2 distributions (Gupta et al. 2021). The M-GITM datacubes used to extract these densities (plus winds) along the trajectory of each orbit path between 140 and 240 km, are provided in this Deep Blue Data archive. README files are also provided for each datacube, detailing the contents of each file. In addition, a general README file is provided that summarizes the inputs and outputs of the M-GITM code simulations for this study. Finally, a basic version of the M-GITM code can be found on Github at https:/github.com/dpawlows/MGITM.
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- Mars, MAVEN Spacecraft Mission, Mars Thermosphere, Helium Density Distributions, and Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS)
- Citation to related publication:
- Gupta, N., N. V. Rao, S. W. Bougher, and M. K. Elrod, Latitudinal and Seasonal Asymmetries of the Helium Bulge in the Martian Upper Atmosphere J. Geophys. Res., 126, XXXX-XXXX. doi:10.1002/2021JEXXXXXX
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- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Hille, Madeline M., Clark, Marin K., Gronewold, Andrew D., West, A. Joshua, Zekkos, Dimitrios , and Chamlagain, Deepak
- Description:
- This dataset supports the findings of Hille et al. (2021, in review) in Geophysical Research Letters. In this article, we present a multivariate analysis of extreme storm events that occur during the Indian summer monsoon over the Himalayan Range in central Nepal. We resolve storm events at sub daily durations by merging NASA’s Global Precipitation Mission (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG) 30-minute, gridded 0.1x0.1-degree precipitation product with local rain gauges operated by the Nepal Department of Hydrology and Meteorology (DHM) and the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD). We quantify spatial variability in extreme rainfall by isolating storms over a specific intensity threshold and pairing a principal components analysis with a K-means clustering approach to group storms of similar characteristics. and We find that frequent and intense storms occur over the forefront of the central Himalayan range and coincide with a locus of monsoon-driven landslide density. This pattern agrees with observations of elevated annual precipitation volumes near the Himalayan physiographic transition from low to high relief (Bookhagen and Burbank, 2010), and is consistent with orographically-influenced rainfall over other mountain ranges (Marra et al., 2021). In addition to presenting novel methodology to quantifying storm variability, our results highlight the strong orographic effect on precipitation intensity and duration, as well as an association of shallow bedrock landsliding frequency with intense precipitation.
- Keyword:
- orographic rainfall, multivariate analysis, extreme rainfall events, and rainfall-triggered landslides
- Citation to related publication:
- Hille et al. (2021, in review). The orographic influence on storm variability, extreme rainfall characteristics and rainfall-triggered landsliding. Geophysical Research Letters. Forthcoming
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Lynch, Erin and van der Pluijm, Ben
- Description:
- High-resolution, low-angle XRD analysis of oriented clay samples (.txt files) and TC/EA, Mass Spectronometric analysis of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (.xslx files)
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- fault gouge and geofluids
- Citation to related publication:
- In submission
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Fuller, Jennifer, Rowan, Erin, Landgraf, Ava, Alofs, Karen, Foufopoulos, Johannes, and Gronewold, Andrew
- Description:
- This study investigates the rapid decline of black tern (Chlidonias niger) over eight years in one of Michigan’s largest colonies, Lake St. Clair. 1. Nesting Success Model: A multiple logistic regression with a binomial (logit-link) fit using the glm() function from the ‘stats’ package in R (55) to determine the influence of habitat and biological predictors on nesting survival. 2. ArcMap visualization of Nesting Success: To visualize the geographic extent of the habitat’s potential to predispose nests’ vulnerability, the coefficients and intercept from our selected GLM were applied to raster layers in ArcMap using the Raster Calculator Tool. 3. Population Change & Habitat Extent: To quantify sub-colony breeding pair population size and their response to changes in sub-colony habitat in the geospatial model, we applied a general linear mixed model (GLMM) using the lmer() function from the ‘lme4’ package in R (55). Predictor variables were chosen a priori, and included the area of open water, uninhabitable vegetation (NDVI>0.72), any habitable area, and area with >50% hatch success.
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- black terns, wetlands, ecology, climate change, lake levels, Great Lakes, waterbirds, ornithology, general linear model, geospatial, GIS, nesting success, avian, and breeding
- Citation to related publication:
- Fuller, J., Rowan, E., Landgraf, A., Alofs, K., Foufopoulos, J., Gronewold, A., (2021). Collapse of a Black Tern Colony (Chlidonias niger) as a Result of Climate Change Driven Lake-Level Extremes and Anthropogenic Habitat Alteration [Data set]. University of Michigan - Deep Blue. and Fuller, J., et al. (2021). Shorebird colony collapses under climate driven lake-level rise and anthropogenic stressors. Forthcoming.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- This repository contains both the data and python3 code that reads this data and reproduces the relevant figures. The code depends on NumPy >1.17 and matplotlib >3.1 and was tested on python 3.8
- Keyword:
- locomotion, slipping, low Reynolds number, walking, and slithering
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Wu, Ziyou, Brunton, Steven L, and Revzen, Shai
- Description:
- These codes were produced as part of the Army Research Office Multi-University Research Initiative ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" The code can be run using the runAll.sh shell script (in Linux and OS-X); code should work similarly under windows.
- Keyword:
- DMD, dimensionality reduction, dynamical systems, and nonlinear dynamics
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Brandt, Daniel, A. and Ridley, Aaron, J.
- Description:
- The research that produced this data focused on conducting a statistical comparison between horizontal winds modeled with GITM and those derived from the accelerometer aboard the GOCE satellite. The winds from GITM and GOCE were compared by constructing their respective probability densities under different levels of geomagnetic activity, and by distributing them as a function of geomagnetic activity, magnetic latitude, magnetic local time, day-of-the-year, and solar radio flux.
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- Thermosphere, GITM, GOCE, Neutral winds, and Thermospheric modeling
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Song, Siliang and Zhang, Jianzhi
- Description:
- Fitness landscapes map genotypes to their corresponding fitness under given environments and allow explaining and predicting evolutionary trajectories. Of particular interest is the landscape ruggedness or the unevenness of the landscape, because it impacts many aspects of evolution such as the likelihood that a population is trapped in a local fitness peak. Although the ruggedness has been inferred from a number of empirically mapped fitness landscapes, it is unclear to what extent this inference is affected by fitness estimation error, which is inevitable in the experimental determination of fitness landscapes. Here we address this question by simulating fitness landscapes under various theoretical models, with or without fitness estimation error. We find that all eight examined measures of landscape ruggedness are overestimated due to imprecise fitness quantification, but different measures are affected to different degrees. We devise a method to use replicate fitness measures to correct this bias and show that our method performs well under realistic conditions. We conclude that previously reported fitness landscape ruggedness is likely upward biased owing to the negligence of fitness estimation error and advise that future fitness landscape mapping should include at least three biological replicates to permit an unbiased inference of the ruggedness.
- Keyword:
- adaptation, estimation error, evolution, NK model, Rough Mount Fuji model, and polynomial model
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Auteri, Giorgia G., Knowles, L. Lacey, Marchán-Rivadeneira, Raquel M., and Olson, Deanna H.
- Description:
- This data was collected as part of a study to study population dynamics of coastal giant salamanders in Oregon. The study uses genetics to answer questions related to conservation concerns including population connectivity, sensitivity to habitat disturbances (such as logging and fires), and genetic diversity of populations.
- Keyword:
- salamander, Dicamptodon tenebrosus, conservation genetics, microsatellite , landscape genetics, population connectivity, and bottleneck
- Citation to related publication:
- Auteri, Giorgia G., M. Raquel Marchán-Rivadeneira, Deanna H. Olson, L. Lacey Knowles. Connectivity in coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) shows no association with land-use, fire frequency, or river drainage but does not offset negative consequences of locally unstable population sizes. PLoS ONE. In review.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Townsend, Kirk F., Clark, Marin K., and Niemi, Nathan A.
- Description:
- These datasets support the findings of Townsend et al. (in review) investigating the timing of faulting relative to changes in the orientation of the North American-Pacific plate boundary. Coeval with development of an oblique plate boundary segment (i.e. the “Big Bend” of the San Andreas fault), active shortening is inferred to have initiated at ~5 Ma in the Western Transverse Ranges (WTR). However, new low-temperature thermochronometric transects yield Miocene to Pleistocene apatite (U-Th-Sm)/He cooling ages and partially reset zircon (U-Th)/He ages. Inverse thermal modelling indicate that reverse faulting initiated as early as 10 Ma, several million years prior to our current understanding of the timing of the Big Bend. New and existing thermochronometry data delineate the WTR as the locus of rapid post-Miocene exhumation, and demonstrate that similar exhumation is not present in the broader region surrounding the Big Bend. We posit that reverse faulting is localized in the WTR because of a weak underlying lithosphere and predates the more recent geometric anomaly of the restraining bend in the transform margin.
- Keyword:
- Reverse faults, Fault initiation, Fault propagation, Low-temperature thermochronometry, Western Transverse Ranges, and San Andreas Fault
- Citation to related publication:
- Townsend, K. F., Clark, M. K., & Niemi, N. A., in review, Reverse faulting within a continental plate boundary transform system. Tectonics
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Kort, Eric A. and Smith, Mackenzie L.
- Description:
- Data collected by Mooney aircraft over Houston and Denver in Summer 2020. Flights typically were designed to measure within the boundary layer in a raster pattern perpendicular to wind direction, thus sampling the urban plume repeatedly. Vertical profiles are conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day.
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- Atmospheric Chemistry, Air Quality, Houston, Denver, and Covid-19
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Moore, Talia Y, Villacis Nunez, C Nathaly, Ray, Andrew P, and Cooper, Kimberly L
- Description:
- Hind limbs can undergo dramatic changes in loading conditions during the transition from quadrupedal to bipedal locomotion. For example, the most early diverging bipedal jerboas (Rodentia: Dipodidae) are some of the smallest mammals in the world, with body masses that range 2-4 grams. The larger jerboa species exhibit developmental and evolutionary fusion of the central three metatarsals into a single cannon bone. We hypothesize that body size reduction and metatarsal fusion are mechanisms to maintain the safety factor of the hind limb bones despite the higher ground reaction forces associated with bipedal locomotion. Using finite element analysis to model collisions between the substrate and the metatarsals, we found that body size reduction was insufficient to reduce bone stress on unfused metatarsals, based on the scaled dynamics of larger jerboas, and that fused bones developed lower stresses than unfused bones when all metatarsals are scaled to the same size and loading conditions. Based on these results, we conclude that fusion reinforces larger jerboa metatarsals against high ground reaction forces. Because smaller jerboas with unfused metatarsals develop higher peak stresses in response to loading conditions scaled from larger jerboas, we hypothesize that smaller jerboas use alternative dynamics of bipedal locomotion that reduces the impact of collisions between the foot and substrate.
- Keyword:
- finite element, functional morphology, bipedal, jerboa, metatarsus, and bone fusion
- Citation to related publication:
- Villacis Nunez, Ray, Cooper, Moore (submitted). Body size reduction and metatarsal fusion were distinct mechanisms to resist bending as jerboas (Dipodidae) transitioned from quadrupedal to bipedal.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Malhotra, Garima and Ridley, Aaron J.
- Description:
- The goal of this research study is to understand the sensitivity of the IT region to the spatial variation of Kzz. This is done using the IT model, GITM, with different settings and spatial distributions for Kzz. We introduce latitudinal bands (longitudinally uniform) of 30 degrees width at equatorial and polar latitudes during different seasons similar to the previous observations in literature. We investigate the mechanisms through which a non-uniform global distribution of Kzz can alter the dynamics and thermal structure of the thermosphere, and how these effects compare to when a globally uniform value of Kzz is used.
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- Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere, Eddy Diffusion, Thermospheric Dynamics, Thermospheric composition and mixing, Lower-Upper Thermosphere Vertical Coupling, Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model, and Eddy Mixing
- Citation to related publication:
- Malhotra, G., Ridley, A.J. (2021). Impacts of Spatially Varying Eddy Diffusion in the Lower Thermosphere on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere using GITM - Sensitivity Study. and A.J. Ridley, Y. Deng, G. Tóth, The global ionosphere–thermosphere model, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, Volume 68, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 839-864, ISSN 1364-6826, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jastp.2006.01.008.
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- Science
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- Creator:
- Brenner, Austin, M
- Description:
- Coupling between the solar wind and magnetosphere can be expressed in terms of energy transfer through the separating boundary known as the magnetopause. Geospace simulation is performed using the Space Weather Modeling Framework (SWMF) of a multi-ICME impact event on February 18-20, 2014 in order to study the energy transfer through the magnetopause during storm conditions. The magnetopause boundary is identified using a modified plasma $\beta$ and fully closed field line criteria to a downstream distance of $-20R_{e}$. Observations from Geotail, Themis, and Cluster are used as well as the Shue 1998 model to verify the simulation field data results and magnetopause boundary location. Once the boundary is identified, energy transfer is calculated in terms of total energy flux \textbf{K}, Poynting flux \textbf{S}, and hydrodynamic flux \textbf{H}. Surface motion effects are considered and the regional distribution of energy transfer on the magnetopause surface is explored in terms of dayside $\left(X>0\right)$, flank $\left(X<0\right)$, and tail cross section $\left(X=X_{min}\right)$ regions. It is found that total integrated energy flux over the boundary is nearly balanced between injection and escape, and flank contributions dominate the Poynting flux injection. Poynting flux dominates net energy input, while hydrodynamic flux dominates energy output. Surface fluctuations contribute significantly to net energy transfer and comparison with the Shue model reveals varying levels of cylindrical asymmetry in the magnetopause flank throughout the event. Finally existing energy coupling proxies such as the Akasofu $\epsilon$ parameter and Newell coupling function are compared with the energy transfer results.
- Keyword:
- Space plasma, Magnetosphere, MHD simulations, Magnetopause, Substorm, Energy transfer, and Poynting flux
- Citation to related publication:
- Brenner A, Pulkkinen TI, Al Shidi Q and Toth G (2021) Stormtime Energetics: Energy Transport Across the Magnetopause in a Global MHD Simulation. Front. Astron. Space Sci. 8:756732. doi: 10.3389/fspas.2021.756732
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- Science
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion. The data were also used extensively in examining multi-contact slipping, in the studying the influence of number of legs on otherwise identical locomotion patterns, and in the use of geometric mechanics models for multilegged locomotion. Folder and file names encode the meta-data, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README.
- Keyword:
- phase, multilegged, robot, and locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0 and Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Curlis, JD, Renney, TJ, Davis Rabosky, AR, and Moore, TY
- Description:
- Efficient comparisons of biological color patterns are critical for understanding the mechanisms by which organisms evolve in ecosystems, including sexual selection, predator-prey interactions, and thermoregulation. However, elongate or spiral-shaped organisms do not conform to the standard orientation and photographic techniques required for automated analysis. Currently, large-scale color analysis of elongate animals requires time-consuming manual landmarking, which reduces their representation in coloration research despite their ecological importance. We present Batch-Mask: an automated and customizable workflow to facilitate the analysis of large photographic data sets of non-standard biological subjects. First, we present a user guide to run an open-source region-based convolutional neural network with fine-tuned weights for identifying and isolating a biological subject from a background (masking). Then, we demonstrate how to combine masking with existing manual visual analysis tools into a single streamlined, automated workflow for comparing color patterns across images. Batch-Mask was 60x faster than manual landmarking, produced masks that correctly identified 96% of all snake pixels, and produced pattern energy results that were not significantly different from the manually landmarked data set. The fine-tuned weights for the masking neural network, user guide, and automated workflow substantially decrease the amount of time and attention required to quantitatively analyze non-standard biological subjects. By using these tools, biologists will be able to compare color, pattern, and shape differences in large data sets that include significant morphological variation in elongate body forms. This advance will be especially valuable for comparative analyses of natural history collections, and through automation can greatly expand the scale of space, time, or taxonomic breadth across which color variation can be quantitatively examined.
- Keyword:
- convolutional neural network, photography, sensory ecology, color evolution, vision, and image segmentation
- Citation to related publication:
- Curlis, Renney, Davis Rabosky, Moore (submitted) Batch-Mask: An automated Mask R-CNN workflow to isolate non-standard biological specimens for color pattern analysis.
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab, U. Michigan
- Description:
- These data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion of Multipod robots with 6,8,10 and 12 legs. The data is stored in .csv.gz files, one file for each robot morphology. Details of how to run the processing code on the raw dataset to generate the processed files found here, as well as example code for loading the data found here, are in the README. This dataset is self contained and can be used on its own without running any of the provided code.
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0, Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985, and BIRDS Lab Multipod robot motion tracking data - RAW data, doi:10.7302/m05a-0d90
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- Engineering and Science
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- Creator:
- Valeriy Tenishev
- Description:
- Here we present an investigation of the variability of Venus' extended oxygen corona. For that, we employ a combination of a fluid model VTGCM for simulating Venus' ionosphere and thermosphere and kinetic model AMPS. We have found excellent agreement of the model results with PVO observations of the corona when the modeling is done assuming the solar maximum conditions, which corresponds to the solar conditions during the observations. We also found that the oxygen density strongly depends on the solar conditions and varies by order of magnitude over a solar cycle. That explains why the extended oxygen corona was observed only at the solar maximum. The result presented in this paper will be used in a later study of the planet's interaction with the ambient solar wind, where the corona model defines the mass loading coefficient.
- Keyword:
- Venus, VTGCM, AMPS, and Venus extended corona
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan
- Description:
- This dataset contains the videos used for https://doi.org/10.7302/m05a-0d90 (the "raw" motion tracking dataset), and is intended to be unpacked into the same directory tree. The data were produced for ARO W911NF-14-1-0573 "Morphologically Modulated Dynamics" and ARO MURI W911NF-17-1-0306 "From Data-Driven Operator Theoretic Schemes to Prediction, Inference, and Control of Systems" to explore the trade-offs between various oscillator coupling models in modeling multilegged locomotion. The data were also used extensively in examining multi-contact slipping, in the studying the influence of number of legs on otherwise identical locomotion patterns, and in the use of geometric mechanics models for multilegged locomotion. Folder and file names encode the meta-data, with names following an informative naming convention documented in the README.
- Keyword:
- phase, multilegged, robot, and locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- BIRDS Lab U. Michigan. BIRDS Lab Multipod robot motion tracking data - RAW dataset [Data set], University of Michigan - Deep Blue Data. https://doi.org/10.7302/m05a-0d90, Zhao, D. Ph.D. Thesis "Locomotion of low-DOF multi-legged robots" University of Michigan 2021 https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/169985, and Zhao, D. & Revzen, S. Multi-legged steering and slipping with low DoF hexapod robots Bioinspiration & biomimetics, 2020, 15, 045001 https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ab84c0
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- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Ding, J, Moore, TY, and Gan, Z
- Description:
- Jerboas (Jaculus jaculus) are bipedal hopping rodents that frequently transition between gaits (running, hopping, and skipping) throughout their entire speed range. It has been hypothesized that these non-cursorial bipedal gait transitions are likely to enhance their maneuverability and predator evasion ability. However, it is difficult to use the underlying dynamics of these locomotion patterns to predict gait transitions due to the large number of degrees of freedom expressed by the animals. To this end, we used empirical jerboa kinematics and dynamics to develop a unified Spring Loaded Inverted Pendulum model with defined passive swing leg motions. The simulated trajectories from the model precisely matched the experimental data. Jerboas were observed to apply different neutral swing leg angles during locomotion. By investigating the gait structure of the model with coupled and uncoupled neutral swing leg, we found two set of mechanism may explain the frequent gait transitions of jerboas.
- Keyword:
- jerboa, legged locomotion, gait transition, Legged Robots, Dynamics, Bipedal locomotion, and Non-cursorial locomotion
- Citation to related publication:
- Ding, Moore, Gan (submitted) A template model explains jerboa gait transitions across a broad range of speeds. Frontiers in Bioengineering And Biotechnology
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Xiantong Wang
- Description:
- We perform a geomagnetic event simulation using a newly developed magnetohydrodynamic with adaptively embedded particle-in-cell (MHD-AEPIC) model. We have developed effective criteria to identify reconnection sites in the magnetotail and cover them with the PIC model. The MHD-AEPIC simulation results are compared with Hall MHD and ideal MHD simulations to study the impacts of kinetic reconnection at multiple physical scales. At the global scale, the three models produce very similar SYM-H and SuperMag Electrojet (SME) indexes, which indicates that the global magnetic field configurations from the three models are very close to each other. At the mesoscale we compare the simulations with in situ Geotail observations in the tail. All three models produce reasonable agreement with the Geotail observations. The MHD-AEPIC and Hall MHD models produce tailward and earthward propagating fluxropes, while the ideal MHD simulation does not generate flux ropes in the near-earth current sheet. At the kinetic scales, the MHD-AEPIC simulation can produce a crescent shape distribution of the electron velocity space at the electron diffusion region which agrees very well with MMS observations near a tail reconnection site. These electron scale kinetic features are not available in either the Hall MHD or ideal MHD models. Overall, the MHD-AEPIC model compares well with observations at all scales, it works robustly, and the computational cost is acceptable due to the adaptive adjustment of the PIC domain.
- Keyword:
- MHD, PIC, and Magnetosphere
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Sun, Hu, Ren, Jiaen, Chen, Yang, and Zou, Shasha
- Description:
- Our research focuses on providing a fully-imputed map of the worldwide total electron content with high resolution and spatial-temporal smoothness. We fill in the missing values of the original Madrigal TEC maps via estimating the latent feature of each latitude and local time along the 2-D grid and give initial guess of the missing regions based on pre-computed spherical harmonics map. The resulting TEC map has high imputation accuracy and the ease of reproducing. and All data are in HDF5 format and are easy to read using the h5py package in Python. The TEC map is grouped in folders based on years and each file contains a single-day data of 5-min cadence. Each individual TEC map is of size 181*361.
- Keyword:
- Total Electron Content, Matrix Completion, VISTA, Spherical Harmonics, and Spatial-Temporal Smoothing
- Citation to related publication:
- Sun, H., Hua, Z., Ren, J., Zou, S., Sun, Y., & Chen, Y. (2020). Matrix Completion Methods for the Total Electron Content Video Reconstruction. arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.01618. and Zou, S., Ren, J., Wang, Z., Sun, H., & Chen, Y. (2021). Impact of Storm-Enhanced Density (SED) on Ion Upflow Fluxes During Geomagnetic Storm. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 162.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Yadav, Rajeev, Widom, Julia R, Chauvier, Adrien, and Walter, Nils G
- Description:
- These data were generated to study the conformational dynamic of fluoride riboswitch as an isolated RNA and in presence of RNA polymerase at different transcript lengths.
- Keyword:
- Fluoride riboswitch, smFRET, and conformational dynamics
- Citation to related publication:
- Yadav, R., Widom, J.R., Chauvier, A. et al. An anionic ligand snap-locks a long-range interaction in a magnesium-folded riboswitch. Nat Commun 13, 207 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27827-y
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- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a left dentary of Carpodaptes stonleyi (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 85286) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Carpolestidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Paleocene, CTEES, and ed7da511-d04c-fd32-09ef-0ea552966545
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Vaskov, Alex K, Vu, Philip P, North, Naia, Davis, Alicia J, Kung, Theodore A, Gates, Deanna H, Cederna, Paul S, and Chestek, Cynthia A
- Description:
- The data was used to calibrate and simulate pattern recognition algorithms for the following publication: Surgically Implanted Electrodes Enable Real-Time Finger and Grasp Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Hands (medRxiv 2020, IEEE TRO in review). Each data file is named as follows Px_PostureSet.csv. Where Px is the patient number. The 1 of 10 posture set contains individual finger and intrinsic thumb movements, the grasps posture set contains a fewer number of combined finger movements. P1’s calibration data for individual fingers is labelled 1 of 12 because it also includes two grasps, which were removed for analysis in the publication. The first column of each .csv file is the experiment time in seconds. The second column is the posture of the cue hand at that timestamp. The rest of the columns are the raw EMG data in microvolts sampled at 30KSps. A legend of the movement postures, each patients EMG channels, and suggested signal processing and filtering is included in DataLabellingAndProcessing.pdf
- Keyword:
- pattern recognition, electromyography, regenerative peripheral nerve interface, intramuscular electrodes, and myoelectric prostheses
- Citation to related publication:
- Surgically Implanted Electrodes Enable Real-Time Finger and Grasp Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Hands A. K. Vaskov, P. P. Vu, N. North, A. J. Davis, T. A. Kung, D. H. Gates, P. S. Cederna, C. A. Chestek medRxiv 2020.10.28.20217273; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.10.28.20217273
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering
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- Creator:
- Zhang, Yingxiao MI and Steiner, Allison MI
- Description:
- In the dataset, "_T" means temperature effects only, without "_T" means temperature and precipitation effects are both considered, "_co2" means CO2 effects are considered on the based of temperature and precipitation effects.
- Keyword:
- pollen emission, climate change, and public health
- Discipline:
- Science
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Bounce-Averaged Quasi-Linear Diffusion Model Simulation Input/Output on Mars’ Crustal Magnetic Field
- Creator:
- Alexander Shane
- Description:
- To study the effect of whistler mode waves on the superthermal electron velocity space at Mars, a numerical model was built to solve the bounce-averaged quasi-linear diffusion equation on a crustal field. This dataset includes the input and output variables to this model for the simulations performed in Shane and Liemohn, 2022. The studies using this dataset were conducted by Alex Shane in the Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department at the University of Michigan. This research was supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Grant NNX16AQ04G to the University of Michigan and the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship.
- Keyword:
- Mars, Electron, and Crustal Fields
- Citation to related publication:
- Shane, A. D., & Liemohn, M. W. (2022). Modeling wave-particle interactions with photoelectrons on the dayside crustal fields of Mars. Geophysical Research Letters, 49, e2021GL096941. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021GL096941
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Troesch, Armin, W. and Kang, C.-G.
- Description:
- This scaled acceleration time series has been used in the graduate class, NA540, as an example of hydrodynamic impact. For a more detailed description of the tests, please see: Troesch, A.W. and Kang, C.-G., "Hydrodynamic Impact Loads on Three Dimensional Bodies," Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Berkeley, July 1986, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 537-558.
- Keyword:
- hydrodynamic impact
- Citation to related publication:
- Troesch, A.W. and Kang, C.-G., "Hydrodynamic Impact Loads on Three Dimensional Bodies," Proceedings of the 16th Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Berkeley, July 1986, National Academy Press, Washington, D.C., 1987, pp. 537-558. This item is not available online due to copyright restrictions, but the text can be searched using Hathi Trust: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015040312475
- Discipline:
- Engineering and Science
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An analysis of recorded and simulated SH wave reverberations in the upper mantle beneath the USArray
- Creator:
- Meichen Liu
- Description:
- We use waveform data from the USArray and spectral-element method synthetics for 3-D seismic models. The recorded waveform data are downloaded from Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS) which is open to everyone. The synthetic waveform data are generated by the SPECMFEM3D_Globe software that was downloaded from the Computational Infrastructure for Geodynamics ( https://geodynamics.org/). This dataset includes the scripts we use to automatically download data from IRIS, the selection of data, and the application of the CRP method. In doing this, we use the TauP toolkit which is free to download ( https://www.seis.sc.edu/taup/) to compute the travel time.
- Keyword:
- seismology
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Cody H. Pham, Jason M. Tallant, J. Jordan Price, and David N. Karowe
- Description:
- Anthropogenic climate change will dramatically alter species distributions. The rate and magnitude of range shifts, however, will differ among taxa, resulting in altered patterns of co-occurrence and interspecific interactions. We examined potential climate-mediated breeding range shifts among North American wood-warblers (Parulidae), a speciose avian family likely to be especially impacted by such changes. We used publicly available species distribution model (SDM) range outputs to compare current ranges and patterns of sympatry among warbler species to future ranges and sympatry under 1.5 °C, 2.0 °C, and 3.0 °C of average global warming. We used these outputs to calculate average breeding range area, range overlap among species, number of sympatric species, and distances of breeding range shifts. We additionally calculated the number gained and lost sympatric interactions under each warming scenario.
- Keyword:
- wood-warbler, University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS), Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU), climate change, interspecific, range shift, species distribution models, sympatric, and student-friendly
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Zhang, Yingxiao MI and Steiner, Allison MI
- Description:
- Atmospheric aerosols are emitted from both natural and anthropogenic sources, and they play an important role in climate, impacting solar radiation and cloud formation. Compared to other types of aerosol particles, primary biological aerosol particles (PBAP, e.g., fungal spores, bacteria, pollen, virus, etc.) are relatively understudied. However, they are linked to adverse health effects and have the potential to influence ice nucleation at higher temperatures. Anemophilous (or wind-driven) pollen is one of the important PBAP, impacts cloud properties under some conditions, and triggers allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis (also known as hay fever) and asthma. Because pollen emission is closely associated with environmental drivers, the climatic change could influence pollen emission and consequently the incidence of allergic disease. Using CMIP6 model data, our research projects continental-scale changes in pollen emissions at the end of the century, considering the effects of temperature, precipitation, CO2, and future vegetation distribution change. While prior studies have evaluated single types of pollen, we use a mechanistic model to comprehensively simulate total pollen across the United States from all sources. Similar to previous single-source pollen studies, our simulations suggest that pollen season duration will lengthen, and pollen emission will increase in the future, but in addition, we identify new synergies between different pollen types that can influence the maximum daily pollen. Our work highlights that the changes of overlap between pollen seasons of different vegetation taxa can magnify or mitigate the impacts of climate change, which addresses the importance to study all pollen emissions comprehensively. Given pollen is one of the most common triggers of seasonal allergies, our findings also provide information to evaluate global health conditions in the future. In this study, all of the pollen emission data are written in NetCDF files.
- Keyword:
- Pollen emission change, Climate change, Public health, Vegetation land cover change, and CO2 effects
- Citation to related publication:
- Zhang, Y. and Steiner, A. “Projected climate-driven changes in pollen emission season length and magnitude over the continental United States”, under review in Nature Communication, 2022. and yingxz. (2022). steiner-lab/pecm: PECM2.0 (2.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5874177
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Al Shidi, Q. and Pulkkinen, T.
- Description:
- Provided are the resultant and processed data.
- Keyword:
- space physics, ground magnetometers, magnetosphere, numerical space physics, solar wind, numerical space physics, and ionosphere
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Bressler, Alison and Blesh, Jennifer
- Description:
- This dataset contains three data files and three corresponding metadata files used in Bressler, A., and J. Blesh. 2022. Episodic N2O emissions following tillage of a legume-grass cover crop mixture. Biogeosciences. The file “Cover_crop_soil_N2O.xls” contains data organized by site, replicate block, and treatment for spring cover crop biomass, nitrogen and carbon content, and legume BNF; soil fertility characteristics including potentially mineralizable nitrogen, particulate organic matter stocks, concentrations, and nitrogen content; and cumulative nitrous oxide data. The file “Soil_properties.xls” contains baseline soil data organized by site and replicate block. The file “Daily_N2O.xls” contains daily nitrous oxide data organized by site, replicate block, treatment, and date. The corresponding metadata files: “Cover_crop_soil_N2O_metadata.xls”, and “Soil_properties_metadata.xls”, and “Daily_N2O_metadata.xls” provided detailed descriptions of all variables in each data set and any abbreviations used.
- Keyword:
- cover crops, legume-grass mixtures, nitrous oxide, particulate organic matter, soil organic matter.
- Citation to related publication:
- Bressler, A., and J. Blesh. 2022. Episodic N2O emissions following tillage of a legume-grass cover crop mixture. Biogeosciences.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Larson, Joanna G, Hamar, Leslie, Whitcher, Courtney, Farrugia, Nicholas, and Schwarz, Eva
- Description:
- These are the data required to implement the authentic research experience (ARE) that we created and describe in our paper "The Batrachian Barf Bowl: An authentic research experience using ecological data from frog diets." We created an open-source “bowl game” competition that challenges students to identify, measure, and compare diet items across vouchered frog specimens.
- Keyword:
- Frog, Diet, Ecology, Science Education, Authentic Research Experience (ARE), Biodiversity, Herpetology, Museum Collections, Remote Learning, and Undergraduate
- Citation to related publication:
- Larson, J. G., Crowell, H. L., Walsh, L. L., & Davis Rabosky, A. R. (2022). The Batrachian Barf Bowl: An authentic research experience using ecological data from frog diets. Ecology and Evolution, 12, e9095. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9095 and The above article is also available in Deep Blue Documents at https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/174122
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Arbic, B.K., Elipot, S., Menemenlis, D., and Shriver, J.F.
- Description:
- The datafiles and Matlab code files in this repository contain the information needed to produce the figures in the paper. We also include the code used to process the raw model output files into spectra.
- Citation to related publication:
- B.K. Arbic, S. Elipot, J.M. Brasch, D. Menemenlis, A.L. Ponte, J.F. Shriver, X. Yu, E.D. Zaron, M.H. Alford, M.C. Buijsman, R. Abernathey, D. Garcia, L. Guan, P.E. Martin, and A.D. Nelson (2022), Near-surface oceanic kinetic energy distributions from drifter observations and numerical models. In review.
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a series of vertebrae from the second lumbar through first sacral of Sifrhippus grangeri (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 115547) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin. In some publications this species is referred to as Hyracotherium grangeri.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Equidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and ef48281d-2984-86f2-2bee-052b26cf8da9
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology and CTEES
- Description:
- Reconstructed CT slices for a first lumbar vertebra of Sifrhippus grangeri (University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology catalog number UMMP VP 115547) as a series of TIFF images. Raw projections are not included in this dataset. The reconstructed slice data from the scan are offered here as a series of unsigned 16-bit integer TIFF images. The upper left corner of the first image (*_0000.tif) is the XYZ origin. In some publications this species is referred to as Hyracotherium grangeri.
- Keyword:
- Paleontology, Fossil, CT, Equidae, UMMP, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, Eocene, CTEES, and ef48281d-2984-86f2-2bee-052b26cf8da9
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Brian C. Weeks
- Description:
- Description: Each folder contains all of the data for a specific specimen; the folder names correspond to the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology catalog number for the specimen. Folders with a “-“ in the name are individual specimens that were photographed multiple independent times; the number following the “-“ indicates the repetition number (i.e. the folder named “UMMZ_242382-10” contains the tenth set of photographs for specimen UMMZ 242382). The photographs are necessary to train and test the Skelevision model, which is a computer vision approach to identifying and measuring elements of the skeleton (length of the tibiotarsus, tarsometatarsus, femur, humerus, ulna, radius, carpometacarpus, 2nd digit 1st phalanx, skull, and keel; the outer diameter of the sclerotic ring at its widest point; and the distance from the back of the skull to the tip of the bill). The data span 115 species of passerines across 79 genera from 59 families.
- Keyword:
- Bird skeleton, neural network, and functional traits
- Citation to related publication:
- Weeks, B.C., Zhou, Z., O’Brien, B., Darling, R., Dean, M., Dias, T., Hassena, G., Zhang, M., and Fouhey, D.F. 2022. A deep neural network for high throughput measurement of functional traits on museum skeletal specimens. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13864
- Discipline:
- Science
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Division of Birds
User Collection- Creator:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
- Description:
- University of Michigan Museum of Zoology Division of Birds
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Smith, Mackenzie L., Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Schwietzke, Stefan, and Zavala-Araiza, Daniel
- Description:
- As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, in 2020 the aircraft measurement platform sampled offshore oil & gas facilities in the Gulf of Mexico to quantify facility-level emissions using the approach detailed in Conley et al. (2017). Onshore, the aircraft sampled downwind of flare combustion plumes in the Permian and Eagle Ford regions of Texas. Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day. and Reference: Conley, S., Faloona, I., Mehrotra, S., Suard, M., Lenschow, D. H., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S., Schwietzke, S., Pétron, G., Pifer, J., Kort, E. A., and Schnell, R.: Application of Gauss’s theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3345 – 3358, 2017.
- Keyword:
- Offshore Oil & Gas, Flaring, Methane, and Nitrogen Oxides
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Kort, Eric A., Plant, Genevieve, Brandt, Adam R., Chen, Yuanlei, Gorchov Negron, Alan M., Schwietzke, Stefan, Smith, Mackenzie L., and Zavala-Araiza, Daniel
- Description:
- As part of the Flaring & Fossil Fuels: Uncovering Emissions & Losses (F3UEL) project, in 2021 the aircraft measurement platform sampled offshore oil & gas facilities in Alaska and California to quantify facility-level emissions using the approach detailed in Conley et al. (2017). Onshore, the aircraft sampled downwind of flare combustion plumes in the Bakken region of North Dakota. Vertical profiles were conducted on each flight to capture the vertical structure and mixing depths of the atmosphere. The data file contains all merged flight data from each flight day. and Reference: Conley, S., Faloona, I., Mehrotra, S., Suard, M., Lenschow, D. H., Sweeney, C., Herndon, S., Schwietzke, S., Pétron, G., Pifer, J., Kort, E. A., and Schnell, R.: Application of Gauss’s theorem to quantify localized surface emissions from airborne measurements of wind and trace gases, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3345 – 3358, 2017.
- Keyword:
- Offshore Oil & Gas, Flaring, Methane, and Nitrogen Dioxides
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Larson, Joanna G and Weiner, Abraham
- Description:
- This dataset consists of 11 linear external morphological measurements from 1,614 adult frog individuals from 434 species that all naturally occur in the Western Hemisphere. We used these data to investigate patterns of multidimensional morphospace structure in frog assemblages along the latitudinal diversity gradient in the Americas. The measured traits are predictive of adult microhabitat use, diel activity patterns, locomotion, mating habitat, and diet.
- Keyword:
- functional traits, morphology, frog, anura, and amphibian
- Citation to related publication:
- Larson, JG, PO Title, and DL Rabosky. Expansion and packing of frog morphospace along the Western Hemisphere latitudinal diversity gradient revealed by functional traits. In prep
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Murray, Kendra E, Niemi, Nathan A, and Clark, Marin C
- Description:
- These data were produced in the scope of research into understanding the application of zircon (U-Th)/He thermochronometric data derived from rocks with complex radiation damage distributions to the extraction of long-term (>1 Gyr) thermal histories of the Earth's upper crust. The samples used in this study were collected from the Front Range in Colorado, USA. The low-temperature (apatite and zircon (U-Th)/He) thermochronometric ages presented in this data set are sensitive to near-surface temperatures (~80C and 180C, respectively) and record the progressive exhumation of the rock mass from which the samples were collected towards the Earth's surface. These thermochronometric ages, and the differences between them, provide insight into the deep-time (~1000 Ma - 100 Ma) thermal history of the Colorado Front Range.
- Keyword:
- apatite, zircon, helium, (U-Th)/He, (U-Th-Sm)/He, thermochronometry, thermochronology, low-temperature, Colorado, Boulder, geology, Colorado Mineral Belt, and Front Range
- Discipline:
- Science
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- Creator:
- Agnit Mukhopadhyay
- Description:
- - A semi-physical global modeling approach is used to estimate diffuse & discrete sources of auroral precipitation during the Galaxy15 event. - Diffuse sources contribute 74% of the total auroral power. Discrete sources are strongly driven by activity and can contribute up to 61%. - Broadband precipitation contributes 31% of the auroral Pedersen conductance playing a significant role in ionospheric electrodynamics.
- Discipline:
- Science and Engineering