. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. COLLECTIONS PROFILE 1 1 1 1 1 ? mM 1 m _ 1 10 M V) 40 90 U nHLiyjiimiiJiiiiiii % 1 • ^ v 1 'There is no better way to be reminded of the majesty and the sheer mass of these whales than to watch their skeletons being hoisted up some 50 feet into the air," said Hopi E. Hoekstra, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Curator of Mammals. Using the main floor railing as the waterline, the bottlenose is shown heading for a deep dive, while the surface-dwelling killer whale is emerging from the "ocean&quo
. Annual report. Harvard University. Museum of Comparative Zoology. COLLECTIONS PROFILE 1 1 1 1 1 ? mM 1 m _ 1 10 M V) 40 90 U nHLiyjiimiiJiiiiiii % 1 • ^ v 1 'There is no better way to be reminded of the majesty and the sheer mass of these whales than to watch their skeletons being hoisted up some 50 feet into the air," said Hopi E. Hoekstra, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences and Curator of Mammals. Using the main floor railing as the waterline, the bottlenose is shown heading for a deep dive, while the surface-dwelling killer whale is emerging from the "ocean" in a typical spy- hop breach maneuver. Digital Data: More than a Photo Namral history collections are of vital importance in understanding the critical issues of our time: climate change, biodiversity loss, emerging diseases, invasive species and other environmental challenges. But in order for collections to be of use, they must be accessible to researchers. Much of the data in natural science collections is "dark," meaning it is not available digitally. *kv B *^M ^b^j[f ?^r ?^ «|^^ WAmm S- ^r /' A ?A Traditionally, researchers have had to travel to examine the specimens in person, an expensive and time-consuming effort. Online availability of the collections is a high- priority directive for the MCZ, and multiple Museum-wide, cross-disciplinary initiatives are underway to promote digitization of. the collections, enhance data quality and mobilize this data so it can be used. One of the challenges in digitization is to effectively capture data from individual, often fragile, and historically important specimens. "The MCZ Lepidoptera Rapid Data Capture Project demonstrates our successful method of obtaining robust data associated with the approximately 200,000 butterfly specimens," says Rod Eastwood, MCZ postdoctoral fellow. 'The project does this by separating specimen handling from data capture, imaging both labels and specimens, then capturing label
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