[MORPHMET] Re: Migration update
Delight has been achieved! I am delighted to report that membership in the new MORPHMET has surpassed the 600 subscriber mark - 603 as of this writing. Also, www.morphometrics.org has rec'd nearly 400 unique (by IP) visits from computers in 45 countries (see embedded map on the website). We began with subscribed email addresses to the old MORPHMET mailing list. These had accumulated over a decade, and my personal goal was that we achieve near or above a 50% response to the new list. I still have about 500 pending invitations that expire approximately weekly. I will continue to reissue these (a tedious process) periodically through September, then purge the list. Thank you for your continued interest and support, The Management On Saturday, August 16, 2014 10:34:42 AM UTC-4, MORPHMET wrote: Hi, Folks. This is just an update on the ongoing migration to the new system. First, I am pleased to note that we currently have 456 subscribed members. These are real, interested parties who have either initiated their own subscription or responded to my invitations. The old subscriber list included over 1100 addresses. If we get 500+ active subscribers I will be satisfied. 600+ and I will be delighted. After more than a decade of subscription accumulation, getting 50% response will be pretty good, I think. And, I know many are currently on vacation. Second, I have over the past two days reissued subscription invitations to over 600 addresses. The subscriptions expire after a week, and I must reissue them...ten at a time, typing in those illegible security codes. I plan to continue to reissue unanswered subscriptions periodically through September. I appreciate your patience in this should you get multiple subscription invitations you don't want. Please ignore them, but if they are too annoying, write me and I will manually remove you from the invitation list. I can also make manual adjustments to the subscribed address. But note,... To use the web interface, you must be logged in via a Google account. If you do not have one (and are subscribed), you may post to the list by sending an email to morphmet@morphometrics.org or replying (to the list) to postings appearing in your email account. Users are initially set up to receive real-time email of individual list posts, but you can change that to no email, or a digest format including multiple postings. I am not sure how one responds to the latter, but I suspect some sort of obvious reply would work. Also, you can adjust your own email subscription by either subscribing to the list by sending an email message from your desired subscription address to morphmet+subscr...@morphometrics.org and you can unsubscribe by sending an email from the address to be unsubscribed to: morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org As always, earlier posts to the list (new or old) can be found at mail-archive.com Best, ds -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] MorphoJ update
Dear morphometricians I have recently uploaded the new version 1.06c of MorphoJ to the web page: http://www.flywings.org.uk/MorphoJ_page.htm This release contains an addition to the procedure for principal component analysis. The output now contains some integration statistics in addition to the standard PCA outputs (variance of eigenvalues, variance of eigenvalues scaled by the total variance, and scaled to an interval between 0 and 1). For an example of the use of this kind of integration statistics, see Gómez, J. M., F. Perfectti, and C. P. Klingenberg. 2014. The role of pollinators in the evolution of corolla shape integration in a pollination-generalist plant clade. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London B Biological Sciences 369:20130257. http://www.flywings.org.uk/PDF%20files/PhilTrRoySoc2014_Erysimum.pdf There are also a few bug fixes. The most noticeable concered importing data from TPS files. Importing data from TPS files containing records starting with LM=0 (no landmarks for an object) produced an erroneous record in the dataset. The new version of MorphoJ is issuing an error message and aborts the data import in this situation. Thanks to the participants of the Plant Morphometrics workshop in Els Hostalets de Pierola for alerting me to this bug. Best wishes, Chris *** Christian Peter Klingenberg Faculty of Life Sciences University of Manchester Michael Smith Building Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PT United Kingdom Web site: http://www.flywings.org.uk E-mail: c...@manchester.ac.uk Phone: +44 161 2753899 Skype: chris_klingenberg *** -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Morphometrics - forensics in the public press.
Below is a link to a very nice article about our own Dr. Ann H. Ross of North Carolina State University Department of Sociology and Anthropology: http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-national-expert-in-human-remains-ann-ross-used-cutting-edge-science-to-help-solve-one-of-raleighs-most-notorious-murders/Content?oid=4238474 The 3d-id software mentioned in the article and other resources are available from http://www.3d-id.org, and we are working to double the 3d-id reference database to include data from over 2000 skulls with much more extensive coverage of Europe. We are also planning to move and embed an existing 3d-id discussion group to the website as I have done for MORPHMET. And, we are working to redo the entire system in a more flexible, generic way to allow for user-defined reference databases of any GM material, but that will take time and money. -ds -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
[MORPHMET] Recommendations for sticky substances
Hi all, I'm looking for any recommendations for binding agents that are useful for holding fossil specimens for morphometric and laser scanning purposes. I've used art putty in the past, but many have oils that stain the specimens, or stick within tiny pores. I've heard some use sticky putty or 3M double-sided tape with some success. Ideally we want something that is a strong bond so that we can move the stage with the specimen on it, but won't leave any residue on the specimen. The fossils tend to be fist sized or smaller (Paleozoic invertebrates mostly), but can sometimes have some mass to them. Do any of you have any other recommendations or experiences? Thanks, Phil -- ~ Phil Novack-Gottshall Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences Benedictine University 5700 College Road Lisle, IL 60532 pnovack-gottsh...@ben.edu Phone: 630-829-6514 Fax: 630-829-6547 Office: 332 Birck Hall Lab: 316 Birck Hall http://www1.ben.edu/faculty/pnovack-gottshall ~ -- MORPHMET may be accessed via its webpage at http://www.morphometrics.org To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to morphmet+unsubscr...@morphometrics.org.
