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Professor Claessens is the lead investigator on the Aves 3D project, and coordinates many of the scanning and research activities at his laboratory, as well as on-site scanning at various different museum locations.
Professor Edwards is the co-principal investigator on the Aves 3D project, and curator of the ornithological collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University, one of the primary sources for the skeletal material scanned for the Aves 3D database.
Dr. Abby Drake is in charge of the day-to-day scanning, database maintenance, and research activities in the Claessens Lab. Abby supervises and trains students in 3D laser surface scanning and their research projects, and spearheads several projects related to the three-dimensional geometric morphometric analysis and utility of Aves 3D’s skeletal surface models.
Mr. Tim Mentzer is responsible for the design and technical maintenance of the Aves 3D database, which he constructed using open source software such as MySQL and Ruby on Rails.
Dr. Sullivan is a collaborator on the Aves 3D project, and is involved in a study on the shape and function of the avian hypotarsus.
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