{"id":695252,"date":"2024-08-30T17:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/?post_type=arcuser&p=695252"},"modified":"2024-08-30T17:31:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T00:31:00","slug":"tracking-dinosaurs-today","status":"publish","type":"arcuser","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/about\/newsroom\/arcuser\/tracking-dinosaurs-today","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Dinosaurs Today"},"author":1031,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sync_status":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","castos_file_data":"","podmotor_file_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[465131,471981,24982],"tags":[479572,490302],"arcuser_issues":[490002],"class_list":["post-695252","arcuser","type-arcuser","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcgis-field-maps","category-arcgis-survey123","category-end-notes","tag-museum","tag-palaeontology","arcuser_issues-au-summer-2024"],"acf":{"short_description":"Tom Hebert uses RFID technology and GIS to keep track of fossils from the dig to the display case. ","pdf":{"host_remotely":false,"file":695262,"file_url":""},"flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"blockquote","content":"It isn\u2019t rare for Tom Hebert to pick up his phone and hear: \u201cI found a dinosaur. Can you come dig it up?\u201d"},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"It isn\u2019t rare for Tom Hebert to pick up his phone and hear: \u201cI found a dinosaur. Can you come dig it up?\u201d\r\n\r\nThrough partnerships with technology companies, Hebert is using RFID tags and GIS mapping to track and document dinosaur fossils with the goal of creating a shared map displaying\u00a0discoveries worldwide. [RFID (radio-frequency identification) tags use radio frequencies to transfer data that uniquely identifies an object, person, or animal and can be used to track its location.]<\/em>\r\n\r\nFrom his home in Wisconsin, Hebert has spent 14 years driving to and from the dinosaur fossil-filled ranges in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming for digs. Lately, he has also been visiting museums to create a digital record of fossils on display or in storage. His goal is to transform the way museums manage fossils and other assets, using digital tools that include ArcGIS Survey123, a location-aware data collection app, and InfraMarker, an RFID tracking technology.\r\n\r\nOften only a fraction of a museum\u2019s collection is on display at any given time. Most of the collection is stored behind the scenes on shelves, in drawers, and sometimes in off-site warehouses. The work of collecting, identifying, and displaying artifacts has long relied on handwritten notes and printed records. Keeping track of artifacts is challenging, even for the largest museums. It\u2019s no wonder, then, that audits have revealed pieces that have gone missing or have been damaged or stolen.\r\n\r\nResearchers at the Smithsonian Institution and the National Science Foundation, which funds the Integrated Digitized Biocollections site, see value in digitizing records of collections. Such records would make it easier to answer critical questions about our Earth, including how the estimated 22 percent of remaining species recovered from the mass extinction event 66 million years ago that annihilated the remaining dinosaurs.\r\n\r\nBy attaching RFID tags to fossils, Hebert can track specimens from dig sites to warehouse shelves, to where they are cleaned and prepared and placed on display. This new awareness of fossil location\u2014including near real-time tracking while in transit\u2014provides a map-based audit trail that Hebert likes to call \u201cdig to display.\u201d It\u2019s the first step in what he hopes could become a single shared map showing where many of the world\u2019s dinosaur bones have been found and where they are now. Hebert also thinks the RFID technology paired with a map could be a tool for federal regulators to monitor the excavation permits they issue on some of the millions of acres of land they oversee.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a continuation of Hebert\u2019s mission to make dinosaur excavating accessible to more people of all ages, especially military veterans and children, whom he invites to join his digs on private property.\r\n\r\n\u201cDinosaurs are how we get kids into science,\u201d he said. His youngest daughter is the reason he started digging. She wanted to go on a fossil hunt, so Hebert found a group that offered trips in South Dakota. That is where he fell in love with the activity. His daughter is now studying to be a marine biologist.\r\n

From Insurance to Fossils<\/h3>\r\nBefore Hebert began venturing to rocky landscapes each summer to dig for fossils, he owned an insurance agency. He used GIS to find out about the locations he was insuring.\r\n\r\nWhen he returned to school in fall 2020, he had an aha moment sitting in a GIS class at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Eau Claire.\r\n\r\n\u201cWait a minute, why can\u2019t we do this with dinosaur bones as we\u2019re digging them up?\u201d he thought.\r\n\r\nThat simple question turned into a research project and a request to borrow tens of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of the geography department\u2019s mapping equipment. When the department said no, Hebert partnered with companies that were willing to lend him their technology. One company was Esri partner Carlson Software. The company\u2019s field software and hardware are typically used for land surveying, civil engineering, construction, and mining.\r\n\r\nHebert reached out to Ladd Nelson, the company\u2019s Midwest sales director. Nelson, who was fascinated by dinosaurs while growing up, said that the proposal captured his inner child. When Hebert explained what he wanted to do, Nelson was confident that Carlson had the equipment that could help him.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to show people that Carlson can do much more than surveying and engineering,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cThe word is getting out there that we can help organizations get all their geographic databases online and populated with highly accurate location information to ensure they not only know where their assets are now but can more easily find them again in the future.\u201d\r\n\r\nOr, in the case of dinosaur fossils, where they were first uncovered before being moved to storage or museums.\r\n

Recording Fossils on the\u00a0Standing Rock Indian Reservation<\/h3>\r\nHebert crossed paths with Esri partner Berntsen, the maker of the InfraMarker RFID tagging technology, in the exhibit hall at the Trimble Dimensions conference in 2022. This encounter led Hebert to test Berntsen\u2019s InfraMarker RFID solution during digs in 2023 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which encompasses more than 3,500 square miles and straddles the border between North Dakota and South Dakota.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s all solving the same problem: how do you connect assets to a map?\u201d said Mike Klonsinksi, president of Berntsen. Whether it\u2019s an underground pipe or a dinosaur bone, in GIS, it\u2019s an asset with a location.\r\n\r\nMuseum archivists and curators are generally reticent about physically handling their valuable specimens and pieces for fear of damage. RFID scanning can be done from a distance to inventory a collection. If someone on staff can\u2019t find an item where it\u2019s supposed to be, larger areas can be scanned to detect it. In addition, RFID antennas can be positioned in areas where artifacts are regularly moved from storage to display or vice versa to track where each item is at any given time.\r\n\r\n\u201cFor us, the biggest lesson here is, it\u2019s not a dinosaur solution, it\u2019s really an asset-to-GIS solution,\u201d Klonsinski said.\r\n\r\nFor the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Hebert\u2019s efforts have offered a way to better record information about the more than 10,000 existing fossils the tribe\u2019s leaders will need to relocate to a temporary storage facility. \u201cWe need to secure the fossils we have,\u201d said Fawn Wasin Zi, the tribe\u2019s outgoing director of reservation resources. In Hebert, the tribe members found a paleontological partner willing to donate his time to protect their fossils, Wasin Zi said.\r\n\r\nHebert and his team found and tagged about 50 new fossils in the field and created digital records for several hundred more in the tribe\u2019s existing collection.\r\n\r\nHe is in the second year of a five-year agreement with the tribe that will be allow him to excavate fossils on the tribe\u2019s land after permits are sought and secured from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Any fossils found are named and kept by the tribe. Hebert\u2019s goal is to eventually help create an exhibit for a cultural museum that will be built on the tribe\u2019s land.\r\n\r\nAt the Museum of Discovery at Sheridan College in Wyoming, Hebert and the museum\u2019s directors spent five days in January 2024 cataloging about 700 fossils. Using ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS Field Maps, they manually entered handwritten GPS coordinates that recorded where each specimen was found and attached an RFID tag to each one. Now a digital record will show if that fossil is on a shelf, on display, on a researcher\u2019s desk, or loaned to another museum.\r\n\r\nHebert is also adding contextual metadata to each fossil, including images, chemical information to determine the age, research paper links, and other resources. Determined to digitize the information that\u2019s normally been handwritten on index cards and stored in museum cabinets, Hebert wants to make the data and fossils easier to access.\r\n\r\n\u201cCards get lost, cards get damaged, and reading handwriting is often impossible,\u201d he said. Stored in the cloud and pinpointed on a map, digital records promise to reveal more about the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, when dinosaurs roamed the land. Dusting off records and bones and digitizing them to relate their origins could safeguard essential data about where dinosaurs lived and died, helping lead to better understanding about Earth\u2019s origins and changes over time."},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":695412,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"From his home in Wisconsin, Hebert has spent 14 years driving to and from the dinosaur fossil-filled ranges in South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming for digs. Lately, he has also been visiting museums to create a digital record of fossils on display or in storage. His goal is to transform the way museums manage fossils and other assets, using digital tools that include ArcGIS Survey123, a location-aware data collection app, and InfraMarker, an RFID tracking technology.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":695432,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Often only a fraction of a museum\u2019s collection is on display at any given time. Most of the collection is stored behind the scenes on shelves, in drawers, and sometimes in off-site warehouses. The work of collecting, identifying, and displaying artifacts has long relied on handwritten notes and printed records. Keeping track of artifacts is challenging, even for the largest museums. 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Such records would make it easier to answer critical questions about our Earth, including how the estimated 22 percent of remaining species recovered from the mass extinction event 66 million years ago that annihilated the remaining dinosaurs.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":695502,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"By attaching RFID tags to fossils, Hebert can track specimens from dig sites to warehouse shelves, to where they are cleaned and prepared and placed on display. This new awareness of fossil location\u2014including near real-time tracking while in transit\u2014provides a map-based audit trail that Hebert likes to call \u201cdig to display.\u201d It\u2019s the first step in what he hopes could become a single shared map showing where many of the world\u2019s dinosaur bones have been found and where they are now. Hebert also thinks the RFID technology paired with a map could be a tool for federal regulators to monitor the excavation permits they issue on some of the millions of acres of land they oversee.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019s a continuation of Hebert\u2019s mission to make dinosaur excavating accessible to more people of all ages, especially military veterans and children, whom he invites to join his digs on private property.\r\n\r\n\u201cDinosaurs are how we get kids into science,\u201d he said. His youngest daughter is the reason he started digging. She wanted to go on a fossil hunt, so Hebert found a group that offered trips in South Dakota. That is where he fell in love with the activity. His daughter is now studying to be a marine biologist.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":695532,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"

From Insurance to Fossils<\/h3>\r\nBefore Hebert began venturing to rocky landscapes each summer to dig for fossils, he owned an insurance agency. He used GIS to find out about the locations he was insuring. When he returned to school in fall 2020, he had an aha moment sitting in a GIS class at the University of Wisconsin\u2013Eau Claire.\r\n\r\n\u201cWait a minute, why can\u2019t we do this with dinosaur bones as we\u2019re digging them up?\u201d he thought.\r\n\r\nThat simple question turned into a research project and a request to borrow tens of thousands of dollars\u2019 worth of the geography department\u2019s mapping equipment. When the department said no, Hebert partnered with companies that were willing to lend him their technology. One company was Esri partner Carlson Software. The company\u2019s field software and hardware are typically used for land surveying, civil engineering, construction, and mining.\r\n\r\nHebert reached out to Ladd Nelson, the company\u2019s Midwest sales director. Nelson, who was fascinated by dinosaurs while growing up, said that the proposal captured his inner child. When Hebert explained what he wanted to do, Nelson was confident that Carlson had the equipment that could help him.\r\n\r\n\u201cWe\u2019ve tried to show people that Carlson can do much more than surveying and engineering,\u201d Nelson said. \u201cThe word is getting out there that we can help organizations get all their geographic databases online and populated with highly accurate location information to ensure they not only know where their assets are now but can more easily find them again in the future.\u201d\r\n\r\nOr, in the case of dinosaur fossils, where they were first uncovered before being moved to storage or museums.\r\n

Recording Fossils on the\u00a0Standing Rock Indian Reservation<\/h3>\r\nHebert crossed paths with Esri partner Berntsen, the maker of the InfraMarker RFID tagging technology, in the exhibit hall at the Trimble Dimensions conference in 2022. This encounter led Hebert to test Berntsen\u2019s InfraMarker RFID solution during digs in 2023 on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which encompasses more than 3,500 square miles and straddles the border between North Dakota and South Dakota.\r\n\r\n\u201cIt\u2019s all solving the same problem: how do you connect assets to a map?\u201d said Mike Klonsinksi, president of Berntsen. Whether it\u2019s an underground pipe or a dinosaur bone, in GIS, it\u2019s an asset with a location.\r\n\r\nMuseum archivists and curators are generally reticent about physically handling their valuable specimens and pieces for fear of damage. RFID scanning can be done from a distance to inventory a collection. If someone on staff can\u2019t find an item where it\u2019s supposed to be, larger areas can be scanned to detect it. In addition, RFID antennas can be positioned in areas where artifacts are regularly moved from storage to display or vice versa to track where each item is at any given time.\r\n\r\n\u201cFor us, the biggest lesson here is, it\u2019s not a dinosaur solution, it\u2019s really an asset-to-GIS solution,\u201d Klonsinski said.\r\n\r\nFor the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, Hebert\u2019s efforts have offered a way to better record information about the more than 10,000 existing fossils the tribe\u2019s leaders will need to relocate to a temporary storage facility. \u201cWe need to secure the fossils we have,\u201d said Fawn Wasin Zi, the tribe\u2019s outgoing director of reservation resources. 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Using ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS Field Maps, they manually entered handwritten GPS coordinates that recorded where each specimen was found and attached an RFID tag to each one. Now a digital record will show if that fossil is on a shelf, on display, on a researcher\u2019s desk, or loaned to another museum.\r\n\r\n "},{"acf_fc_layout":"image","image":695542,"image_position":"center","orientation":"horizontal","hyperlink":""},{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"Hebert is also adding contextual metadata to each fossil, including images, chemical information to determine the age, research paper links, and other resources. Determined to digitize the information that\u2019s normally been handwritten on index cards and stored in museum cabinets, Hebert wants to make the data and fossils easier to access.\r\n\r\n\u201cCards get lost, cards get damaged, and reading handwriting is often impossible,\u201d he said. Stored in the cloud and pinpointed on a map, digital records promise to reveal more about the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, when dinosaurs roamed the land. 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