Digitization PEN: Addressing Colorado Lichens and Bryophytes as Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change

数字化 PEN：将科罗拉多地衣和苔藓植物作为环境质量和变化的敏感指标

• 批准号: 1205084
• 负责人: Timothy Hogan
• 金额: $ 13.94万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2015-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1205084&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Addressing; Colorado; Lichens

This award joins the ongoing Thematic Collections Network project on "North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change". The primary goal of this project is to image label data from the 100,000 North American bryophyte (mosses) and lichen specimens held at the University of Colorado Herbarium (COLO). The main scientific questions to be addressed from these efforts are: (1) How are changes in distribution patterns of lichens and bryophytes over time correlated with man-made environmental changes? (2) Can mapping of specimens document such changes, and can these organisms be used as bioindicators to focus our attention on steps needed to maintain a healthy environment? Natural history museums and herbaria serve as storehouses for plant and animal specimens collected over generations of scientific investigation. Collections are the basis for our understanding of life's diversity in all its abundance and variation across nature. The collections from Colorado will add information about high altitude lichens and bryophytes and will fill a gap for the original network.With uncertainty surrounding future impacts from human climate disruption, the value of efforts such as these will only grow over time. Future scientists and policy makers will be indebted to those who expedite access to the objective records of voucher specimens documenting the presence of particular species at a particular place at a particular time. COLO views this proposal not only as a commitment to fill a significant gap in the national project's goal to digitize the bulk of North American collection in US herbaria, but also as an opportunity to advance efforts within museums and herbaria to train and support the next generation of curatorial professionals, offering opportunities for several undergraduate students as interns. Volunteers from the public community will be trained, and the museum will develop exhibits as a part of public outreach. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).

该奖项加入了正在进行的主题收集网络项目“北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标”。这个项目的主要目标是图像标签数据从100,000北美bratlete（苔藓）和地衣标本保存在科罗拉多大学植物标本馆（科洛）。 从这些努力中要解决的主要科学问题是：（1）地衣和苔藓分布格局的变化如何随着时间的推移与人为的环境变化相关？ (2)标本的绘图是否能记录这些变化，这些生物体是否能用作生物指示剂，使我们的注意力集中在维持健康环境所需的步骤上？自然历史博物馆和植物标本馆是几代人科学调查收集的动植物标本的仓库。 收集是我们理解生命多样性的基础，在自然界中有丰富的多样性和变化。 来自科罗拉多的收集将增加有关高海拔地衣和苔藓植物的信息，并将填补原始网络的空白。由于人类气候破坏对未来影响的不确定性，这些努力的价值只会随着时间的推移而增长。 未来的科学家和政策制定者将感谢那些迅速获得凭证标本客观记录的人，这些凭证标本记录了特定物种在特定时间特定地点的存在。 科洛认为，这一提案不仅是一个承诺，以填补国家项目的目标，在美国植物标本馆的大部分北美收藏的显着差距，但也作为一个机会，以推动博物馆和植物标本馆内的努力，以培训和支持下一代策展专业人士，提供机会，为几个本科生实习。 来自公众社区的志愿者将接受培训，博物馆将开发展览，作为公共宣传的一部分。该奖项是作为国家资源的一部分，通过推进生物收藏品数字化计划的生物收藏品的数字化，从这个奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。