RUI: Collaborative Research: Collection enhancement and biodiversity informatics for Pacific Northwest macromoths

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。华盛顿州立大学（Washington State University）与西华盛顿大学（Western Washington University）合作研究西北太平洋地区飞蛾的生物多样性，获得了一项奖项。该项目将建立华盛顿州立大学詹姆斯昆虫学收藏（JEC）中大型飞蛾的数据库，并将最近增加的大量飞蛾整合到JEC的馆藏中。研究人员还将对该地区其他主要公共和私人蛾类收藏的标本记录进行数字化和数据库化，以建立一个约1100种蛾类的数据库，该数据库既可以在网上搜索（通过http://entomology.wsu.edu/museum/index.html），也可以与已建立的全球生物多样性网站共享。该项目还将为太平洋西北地区的飞蛾创建在线生物多样性信息工具（见www.biol.wwu.edu/PNWmoths），包括交互式密钥、高分辨率图像、详细的物种描述和分布图。西北太平洋飞蛾生物多样性数据库将为系统学家的工作提供便利，为区域保护政策提供信息，并为整个JEC数据库的建立奠定基础。在线识别密钥和物种帐户将被设计供非专家使用，使分类知识可供各种利益相关者使用，包括保护管理人员、农民、教育工作者和公民科学家。该合作项目将使众多本科生和研究生受益，为他们提供在馆藏管理和数据基础、标本成像和生物多样性信息学方面的宝贵经验。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). An award has been made to Washington State University for a collaborative effort with Western Washington University focused on moth biodiversity in the Pacific Northwest. This project will database the holdings of macro-moths in the James Entomological Collection (JEC) at WSU, and integrate substantial recent moth additions to JEC's holdings. The investigators will also digitize and database specimen records in the other major public and private moth collections in the region, to produce a database for ~1100 species of moths that will be both web-searchable (via http://entomology.wsu.edu/museum/index.html) and shared with established global biodiversity websites. This project will also create online biodiversity informatics tools for Pacific Northwest moths (see www.biol.wwu.edu/PNWmoths), including interactive keys, high-resolution images, and detailed species accounts and distribution maps. The Pacific Northwest moth biodiversity database will facilitate the work of systematists, inform regional conservation policies, and initiate the data basing of the entire JEC holdings. The online identification keys and species accounts will be designed for use by non-experts, making taxonomic knowledge available to a diverse array of stakeholders, including conservation managers, farmers, educators, and citizen scientists. The proposed collaborative project will benefit numerous undergraduate and graduate students, providing them with valuable experience in collection curation and data basing, specimen imaging, and biodiversity informatics.