Digitization PEN: Digitization of two Important Medium-sized Collections to Join the North American Bryophytes and Lichens TCN

数字化 PEN：将两个重要的中型馆藏数字化，加入北美苔藓植物和地衣 TCN

• 批准号: 1304948
• 负责人: George Weiblen
• 金额: $ 7.41万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1304948&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; two; Important; Medium

ABSTRACT: Digitization PEN: Digitization of North American bryophytes and lichens in two important medium-sized collections.This project joins the North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change Thematic Collections Network (LBCC TCN). We will contribute by imaging and georeferencing 91,300 lichen and bryophyte specimen records at the University of Minnesota (MIN) and the Yale University (YU) herbaria. Historical records of lichens and bryophytes, along with geographic coordinates of collecting localities, are ideally suited for investigating a variety of questions related to global environmental change. The collections included in this PEN are each important regional repositories of North American specimens, and digitizing them will fill a considerable gap in the TCN's goal of digitizing nearly all lichen and bryophyte specimens in North America and add historically important specimens.Data resulting from this project will be of immediate use to scientists who study how ecosystems respond to climate change and who use lichens and bryophytes as indicators of air quality. Societal benefits of this work include improved understanding of what causes ecosystem change and how environmental change may affect human health, our economy, and our environment. This project introduces a new generation of students to museum collections by offering internships to high school students of diverse backgrounds and by involving undergraduates and graduate students in project activities. 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 iDigBio.org.

摘要：数字化 PEN：对两个重要的中型馆藏中的北美苔藓植物和地衣进行数字化。该项目加入了北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化敏感指标主题馆藏网络 (LBCC TCN)。我们将通过对明尼苏达大学 (MIN) 和耶鲁大学 (YU) 植物标本室的 91,300 个地衣和苔藓植物标本记录进行成像和地理配准来做出贡献。地衣和苔藓植物的历史记录以及采集地点的地理坐标非常适合调查与全球环境变化相关的各种问题。该 PEN 中包含的馆藏都是北美标本的重要区域存储库，对它们进行数字化将填补 TCN 数字化北美几乎所有地衣和苔藓植物标本并添加历史上重要标本的目标的巨大空白。该项目产生的数据将立即为研究生态系统如何响应气候变化以及使用地衣和苔藓植物作为空气指标的科学家提供帮助 质量。这项工作的社会效益包括更好地了解生态系统变化的原因以及环境变化如何影响人类健康、经济和环境。该项目通过为不同背景的高中生提供实习机会以及让本科生和研究生参与项目活动，向新一代学生介绍博物馆藏品。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分而颁发的，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过 iDigBio.org 提供。