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: 1304941
• 负责人: Patrick Sweeney
• 金额: $ 7.1万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1304941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; two; Important; Medium

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.

明尼苏达大学(MIN)和耶鲁大学(YU)向北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量敏感指标和变化专题收集网络(LBCC TCN)颁发了一个奖项。总共将对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，以及采集地点的地理坐标，非常适合于研究与全球环境变化有关的各种问题。这一笔中包含的每一个标本都是北美地区重要的标本保存库，将它们数字化将填补TCN将北美几乎所有地衣和苔藓标本数字化并增加具有历史意义的标本的目标的相当大的空白。该项目产生的数据将立即用于研究生态系统如何响应气候变化的科学家，以及将地衣和苔藓用作空气质量指标的科学家。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，以及环境变化可能如何影响人类健康、我们的经济和我们的环境。该项目通过为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。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为生物收藏数字化国家资源的一部分颁发的，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过iDigBio.org获得。