{"id":1934,"date":"2015-07-31T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2015-07-31T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/?page_id=1934"},"modified":"2015-08-07T12:11:59","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T12:11:59","slug":"footprints-on-the-beach","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/footprints-on-the-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Footprints on the Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\"nerc-splash\"<\/a>\n

\"NERC\"<\/a>World leading research to\u00a0celebrate the Natural Environmental Research Council\u2019s (NERC) 50th<\/sup> birthday in association with Bournemouth University (BU).<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

During the weekend of 4-5 July 2015, staff from BU\u2019s Institute for Studies in Landscape and Human Evolution<\/a>\u00a0ran a series of science experiments on a Bournemouth beach. The event was a huge success with more than 600 footprints from 200 people collected over the weekend from locals, passers-by and tourists. This\u00a0contribution of bare foot and shod impressions has provided\u00a0an excellent data source for\u00a0the ongoing project of\u00a0translating existing research on\u00a0ancient footprints, into a forensic science tool that will help crime scene investigation in the future.<\/p>\n\"Groups<\/a>\n

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What\u00a0happened…<\/span><\/h3>\n

After a\u00a0slight adjustment to our plans for the day\u00a0due to damage to one of the gazebos (it was completely destroyed in the overnight storm :-\/) our day began by setting up the area to mark out the designated areas. Each run had to be cleared of stones and raked over to create a level surface for the prints to be left on. We set up the 3D scanner along with\u00a0the weigh and measure station ,with only a few creative measures to keep the height stick in place (you gotta love duck tape!). We split off into our three teams, recruiting, meet and greet and processing and got to work.<\/p>\n

How\u00a0it went…<\/span><\/h3>\n

The weekend went smoothly, apart from a couple of power outages from the generator and an ongoing battle with the sun drying out the sand forcing us to spray water over each run before every print set was left. Even so, we achieved an impressive 200\u00a0sets of prints in both shod and unshod feet. Quite an achievement even if we do say so ourselves!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

World leading research to\u00a0celebrate the Natural Environmental Research Council\u2019s (NERC) 50th birthday in association with Bournemouth University (BU). During the weekend of 4-5 July 2015, staff from BU\u2019s Institute for Studies in Landscape and Human Evolution\u00a0ran a series of science experiments on a Bournemouth beach. The event was a huge success with more than 600… Read more » about Footprints on the Beach<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1290,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":-1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-home-2col-3col.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1934","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":30,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2147,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/nerc-footprints\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}