Appernathy: iPad Application for the Long-term Ecological Monitoring Project at W&J’s Abernathy Field Station
Dec 21, 2015
Appernathy: iPad Application for the Long-term Ecological Monitoring Project at W&J’s
Abernathy Field Station
Appernathy Application
• Developed by Information Technology Leadership students as part of their Senior Capstone project (Spring 2011).
– Students: Alex Blon, Ryan Lehman (also an HHMI LEM intern during Summer 2009), and John Mathews.
• The application is currently being used by students in EVS and BIO courses to collect data on salamander diversity and abundance.
– Has a very easy-to-use graphic interface that guides students in the data collection process.
• Minimizes errors in data collection • Easier to use than Trimble handheld computers• Well suited for data collection by inexperienced
students– Picture keys for identifying organisms– Can be used in non-majors BIO and EVS lab course
• Software being used extensively by students in both EVS100 (non-majors lab course) and by students in BIO412 (Experimental Biology course).
• Further development of the software is ongoing by students and faculty in ITL.– Create a base application that can then be
modified for collecting other types of data