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It's tracking every bone in your finger.
This is about 30,000 years ago.
Already with the cope data from Copan
and the GIS, right.
All the number's we're seeing here.
I think my anthropology degree
will take me either into the public sector,
a lot of working with museums developing cultural heritage
applications, so people can see these sites,
also working for the National Park Service.
So, basically this is a web application that's optimized
for mobile viewing, I did it for the National Park Service,
I was really fortunate enough to get an internship.
I work at the Arbor Day Foundation as an intern.
I'm interested in national development
and I thought that anthropology offered a whole list
of perspective to participating in that field.
User friendly and aversive as possible.
I'm currently looking at a number of PhD programs
and I will be continuing on in doing research
both in digital and in my sourcing studies.
Move forward.
See if you can grab that one.
The facilities that UNL provides
are cutting edge, and we're using new technology
such as the oculus rift and the leap motion,
and then we use various 3D modeling software packages,
CityEngine, Sketch-up, Blender.
We're using 3D laser scanning technology
to record artifacts.
We use this technology in our classes
and the purpose of that is to get our students
familiar with the process so that technology
becomes part of, you know, the teaching experience.
What we're seeing here is a castle
from Germany called Burg Hohenecken.
It's my master's research, is the digitization
of this castle using photogrammetry as is shown in this,
is a 3D model of it, as well as laser scanning
which it has an additional 3D model.
I was there working with the University of Heidelberg
and the University of Stuttgart
in order to produce some, and also doing research
on the history of the castle as well.
These type of tools are really important
in anthropology, and specifically also archeology,
because it really brings people back into the past.
It helps us recreate the environments
of archaeological sites.
We got an NIH grant to support the digitization and
preservation and access of material from Salmon Pueblo.
My research is mostly based in Ohio,
particularly the Ohio Hopewell Culture,
so I'm working with the Field Museum
to bring together a lot of the data
that was collected a lot of artifacts
and put it back into the site and understand
how people excavated, and then derive new interpretations.
The bioanth lab is actually an incredible lab,
and it really is great because there's so many casts
and it presents you with a hands-on opportunity
to work with these casts.
My thesis is on sourcing studies using
extractive fraction on ceramics here in Nebraska,
and then my second study is 3D reconstructions
of landscape and cityscapes.
Okay, and we could put the model.
The whole department is very collaborative,
all the faculty and all the grad students
often work together.
One opportunity that the University of Nebraska
has provided, is the Graduate Teaching Assistantship,
which is wonderful.
The department supports my goals by providing
feedback, by offering me opportunities.
The academics here will try to
gear is towards acquiring skill sets that push all
towards our own, individual goals.
What makes Lincoln a good place to be is that
it's a city but with a small town feel.
Lincoln, Nebraska is a great place to raise a child,
and I have one.
It's very much a college town, there's always
things to do around town, concerts, clubs.
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I think Nebraska is a good place to do graduate work
because it has a supportive environment,
an environment where you can thrive
and be excited about new opportunities.
We have some people who are here to get a master's degree
and then go and work for National Park Service,
National Forest Service.
Those who are trying to move on to higher education
such as PhD program, and they push you forward
towards your goal of reaching whatever your next stage is.
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