Weaving combs from ancient Egypt
Researchers from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology used photogrammetry to create 3D models of a weaving comb (left) and a toy weaving comb (right) that originated from Karanis, Egypt, circa 4th century CE. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/mw2a... doi.org/10.7302/jvtx...
Aerial view of snowy Greenland landscape at sunset
Funded by NSF and NASA, researchers studied the impacts of atmospheric rivers—long, narrow regions in the atmosphere, like rivers in the sky, that transport water vapor and can create rain or snow when they make landfall—in Greenland! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/8xhg... #AcademicSky
Green seedlings coming out of the soil
In an effort to expand information on regeneration ecology of tropical dry forests, researchers measured functional traits on 56 seedling species in 4 forests in Colombia. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/5kjr.... Funding: National Science Foundation and National Geographic Society.
Image of a lake surrounded by mountains, with a blue sky and puffy white clouds.
Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Geological Society of America, and @umich.edu, researchers studied isotope data from Lake Junin in Peru to explore trends in lake water temperatures and evaporative state. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/wzbz... #AcademicSky
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Funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, researchers in the U-M Information department used fractal dimension to analyze Reddit posts about AI. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/1x3y... #AcademicSky
sketch drawing of an airplane
NASA's Subsonic Single Aft Engine Aircraft is a transformational concept to make commercial flight more efficient. U-M researchers completed performance and safety analyses on the aircraft to help NASA fill safety assessment gaps! Check out their work here: doi.org/10.7302/wg2f... #DeepBlueData
A person holding paper cutouts of kidneys over their stomach area
Funded by NIH, U-M Nephrology, the American Society of Nephrology, and the Chan Zuckerberg Foundation, researchers studied the density of parietal epithelial cells, and found a link between decreased cell density and predictors of kidney disease. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/jygd...
icon of a speaker on a white background
During Ricardo Lyra’s artist-in-residency program at U-M Biological Station, they compiled a sound library of UMBS and the surrounding areas. This library aims to explore the human relationship with the natural world. Check it out on our #DeepBlueData repository: doi.org/10.7302/jnzm... #AcademicSky
3d rendering of a molecule
With funding from the Department of Energy and Office of Naval Research, researchers from the U-M Chemical Engineering department used molecular dynamics simulations to study superparticles coined “flexicles.” View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/7vbs.... #AcademicSky
an x - ray image of the bones of the hand
Congratulations to the researchers from the U-M Departments of Medicine and Anthropology on the publication of their dataset about the impact of external bone size on the identification of low mass in children. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/47ej... #AcademicSky
This #OAWeek, we are proud to highlight our Deep Blue Repository. #DeepBlueData and #DeepBlueDocs allow U-M scholars to safely preserve their work and to make it widely available to others in the U-M community and beyond!
www.lib.umich.edu/collections/... #AcademicSky
Wadi el Hitan, Valley of the whales, Egypt
Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Museum of Paleontology on the publication of their new dataset about projection stratigraphy at the Wadi Al-Hitan World Heritage Site in Egypt! Funded by the National Science Foundation. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/m6et... #AcademicSky
Two large trees with the sun shining through it
Unbe-leaf-able! 🍁 Funded by ForestGEO, USDA, and the Edwin S. George Reserve Fund, researchers explored the role of leaves and wood density in characterizing tree species' growth rates. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/s7hm... #AcademicSky
Image of an oil flare against the night sky
Check out this new #DeepBlueData deposit from the U-M Climate and Space Department! Funded by the Department of Energy, researchers collected data as part of an effort to reduce methane emissions from oil and gas flaring. View the dataset here: doi.org/10.7302/dhw8... #AcademicSky
photo of a lithic tool
Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Department on Anthropology on the publication of their most recent dataset that covers the lithic tools, debitage, and fauna from the 1986–1987 excavations at the site of Badanj! View the #DeepBlueData here:
doi.org/10.7302/tnsf... #AcademicSky
Image of outer space featuring a galaxy and an associated dark matter halo
Congratulations to researchers from the U-M Physics Department (with funding from the Department of Energy) on the publication of their most recent dataset on singlet-doublet dark matter! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/27j9... #AcademicSky
blue outline of lake huron on a map
Funded by the U-M Dept of Earth and Environmental Sciences, the Institute for Global Change Biology, and @geosociety.bsky.social, researchers studied changes in the carbon and nitrogen chemistry of sediments in the Middle Island Sinkhole in Lake Huron. View the #DeepBlueData: doi.org/10.7302/atpb...
Pen lying on a sheet of paper. The paper has checkboxes, three of which have checkmarks.
Between January 15 and March 18, 2024, researchers, funded by #NIH, surveyed 1,379 Grand Rapids residents on topics like health, neighborhood perceptions, politics, and more. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/f0kg... #AcademicSky
At the turn of the 20th century, “Rossiter's Club Men of New York” documented prominent men of New York City and their club memberships. With funding from UM-Flint, this information has now been digitized and made available online! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/cqsr...
With funding from the NIH, researchers utilized Medicare survey data to analyze racial and ethnic disparities in satisfaction with healthcare access and affordability in the US. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/jrpq... #AcademicSky
Funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture, researchers used functional trait ecology to study cover crops–plants grown primarily to benefit the soil rather than for harvest–and their effect on soil health. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/g97e... #AcademicSky
With funding from the National Institute of Health, researchers have discovered early metabolite signals that may hold the key to early identification and even prevention of sepsis-induced organ failure. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/8fyq... #AcademicSky
Funded by @miseagrant.bsky.social, check out this study of trace metal limitation of algal growth in Saginaw Bay, Lake Huron from 1999 to 2003! View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/rr5z... #AcademicSky
Between June 18 and August 19, 2024, researchers surveyed 2,450 Detroit residents on topics like neighborhood perceptions, demographics, politics, and more. Funded by the Ballmer Group, @kresge.org, and @cityofdetroit.bsky.social, view the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/pg9g... #AcademicSky
Sea lampreys negatively impact the ecological and economic health of the Great Lakes region. With support from the Great Lakes Fisheries Commission, researchers aim to improve sea lamprey traps that will remove these parasitic fish. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/py8y... #AcademicSky
Lions, tigers, and bears, oh my! The Division of Mammals at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology has made available a large collection of CT scans of various mammal specimens, like this molar from an African bush elephant. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/j06m... #AcademicSky
It’s o-fish-ial! 🐟 Funded by U-M’s Institute for Data & AI In Society, a century’s worth of Lake Michigan surveys from the Archives at the Institute for Fisheries Research detailing lake conditions and fish abundance are now available. View the #DeepBlueData: doi.org/10.7302/ggk0... #AcademicSky
Silicon carbide is used in everything from electric vehicles to ceramics to jewelry. One researcher at UM-Flint investigated the impact of interphase thickness on the elastic properties of the compound. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/7c9z... #AcademicSky
Did you know that many extreme winter storms are caused by extratropical cyclones? Researchers, funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, analyzed trends in these cyclones in the Great Lakes region over 60 years. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/17vn...
Let it snow ❄️ Researchers gathered years of data from a Marquette, Michigan radar to learn more about the structure and evolution of precipitation, including "deep snow events." Funding: NASA and NOAA. View the #DeepBlueData here: doi.org/10.7302/4qdq... #AcademicSky
