Grand Teton National Park

 The David T. Vernon Collection - 3D Documentation Project


3D Documentation and Visualization Techniques for Cultural Resources and Museum Collections


This collaboration between the National Park Service (NPS) museum and cultural resource staff, Native American Tribal Representatives, NPS museum professionals and conservators, and Idaho State University faculty and students offers innovative ways to adapt existing 3D technologies to preserve, document, visualize, and provide educational opportunities about cultural resources and museum collections in national parks. Our goal was to create a series of high­resolution 3D scans of museum objects from a wide range of Native American ethnographic objects in the David T. Vernon Collection from Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming.

The Team



Project Director: Dr. Yolonda Youngs
Project Co-PI

Project Co-Principle Investigator: Bridgette Guild
Museum Curator/Tribal Liaison

Project Co-Investigator: Dr. Donna Delparte
Idaho State University
Masters of Geographic Information Sciences Student Assistants: Tucker Chapman and Ashely Shields

ISU Masters of Geographic Information Sciences Student Assistant:
Tucker Chapman

ISU Masters of Geographic Information Sciences Student Assistant:
Ashley Shields