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Ecologist de la Sancha Contributes to Natural History Digitization Project

​​​Environmental Science and Studies Assistant Professor  Noé de la Sancha is participating in openVertebrate (oVert), a five-year collaboration among 18 institutions to create 3D reconstructions of vertebrate specimens, now freely available online. As part of his contribution to the project, de la Sancha and Cody Thompson at the University of Michigan earned a Partner to an Existing Network grant from the National Science Foundation. This initiative, Digitization PEN: Functional Quantitative Characters for Ecology and Evolution (FuncQEE), tackles a subsection of the vertebrate tree of life that includes rodents. Find out more.​​​