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

明尼苏达大学（MIN）和耶鲁大学（YU）的植物标本库加入了北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化专题收集网络（LBCC TCN）的敏感指标。 将对总共91，300个地衣和苔藓标本进行成像和地理参考。地衣和苔藓的历史记录，沿着收集地点的地理坐标，非常适合调查与全球环境变化有关的各种问题。本笔会的收藏品是北美标本的重要区域储存库，TCN的目标是将北美几乎所有的地衣和苔藓植物标本数字化，并增加具有历史意义的标本，而数字化这些标本将填补TCN目标中的一个相当大的空白。该项目产生的数据将立即用于研究生态系统如何对气候变化作出反应以及将地衣和苔藓植物作为指标的科学家空气质量。这项工作的社会效益包括更好地理解是什么导致生态系统变化，以及环境变化如何影响人类健康，我们的经济和环境。该项目通过向不同背景的高中生提供实习机会，并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收藏品。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iDigBio.org提供。

An award is made to join the University of Minnesota (MIN) and the Yale University (YU) herbaria to the North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change Thematic Collections Network (LBCC TCN). A total of 91,300 lichen and bryophyte specimens will be imaged and georeferenced. 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.