Open AccessNews from the Field
Author(s) -
David Free
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
college and research libraries news
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.281
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 2150-6698
pISSN - 0099-0086
DOI - 10.5860/crln.79.2.58
Subject(s) - turtle (robot) , brace , shell (structure) , paralysis , fishery , geography , aeronautics , engineering , biology , medicine , civil engineering , mechanical engineering , surgery
Birch Aquarium has teamed up with the Digital Media Lab at the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) Library to create what is believed to be the first 3-D-printed brace for a sea turtle’s shell. The Loggerhead Sea Turtle was rescued from a New Jersey power plant in 2013 with a large gap in the bottom right part of her shell. This gap, along with an abnormal curve of her spine and paralysis of her back flippers, is likely due to trauma experienced in the wild before she was rescued.