Digitization TCN: Collaborative: Documenting the Occurrence through Space & Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, & Plants Threatening North America's Great

数字化 TCN：协作：通过空间记录事件

• 批准号: 1400435
• 负责人: Andrew Simons
• 金额: $ 4.65万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1400435&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Documenting; Occurrence

One of the greatest threats to the health of North America's Great Lakes is invasion by exotic species, several of which already have had catastrophic impacts on property values, the fisheries, shipping, and tourism industries, and continue to threaten the survival of native species and wetland ecosystems. Additional species have been placed on watchlists because of their potential to become aquatic invasives. This project will create a network of herbaria and zoology museums from among the Great Lakes states of MN, WI, IL, IN, MI, OH, and NY to better document the occurrence of these species in space and time by imaging and providing online access to the information on the specimens of the critical organisms. Several initiatives are already in place to alert citizens to the dangers of spreading aquatic invasives among our nation's waterways, but this project will develop complementary scientific and educational tools for scientists, students, wildlife officers, teachers, and the public who have had little access to images or data derived directly from preserved specimens collected over the past three centuries. This bi-national Thematic Collections Network of 25 institutions from eight states and Canada will digitize 1.73 million historical specimens representing 2,550 species of exotic fish, clams, snails, mussels, algae, plants, and their look-alikes documented to occur in the Great Lakes Basin. It is one of the first efforts to digitize liquid preserved specimens and to integrate cross-kingdom taxa and these methods could become national standards for cross taxon digitization. Students will be provided with hands-on experience in modern methods of specimen curation and this cross-taxon network will provide greater flexibility to existing web platforms for integration of data. 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).

对北美五大湖健康的最大威胁之一是外来物种的入侵，其中一些已经对财产价值、渔业、航运和旅游业产生了灾难性的影响，并继续威胁着本地物种和湿地生态系统的生存。 其他物种已被列入观察名单，因为它们有可能成为水生入侵物种。 该项目将创建一个植物标本馆和动物学博物馆网络，这些博物馆来自明尼苏达州、威斯康星州、伊利诺伊州、印第安纳州、密歇根州、俄亥俄州和纽约州的五大湖州，通过成像和在线访问关键生物体标本的信息，更好地记录这些物种在空间和时间上的发生情况。已经有几项举措提醒公民注意在我国水道中传播水生入侵物的危险，但该项目将为科学家，学生，野生动物官员，教师和公众开发补充的科学和教育工具，他们几乎无法直接获得过去三个世纪收集的保存标本的图像或数据。这个由来自八个州和加拿大的25个机构组成的两国主题收藏网络将收集173万份历史标本，代表2,550种外来鱼类、蛤、蜗牛、贻贝、藻类、植物及其类似物，这些标本记录在五大湖盆地。这是首次尝试对液体保存标本进行数字化，并整合跨界分类群，这些方法可能成为跨界分类群数字化的国家标准。学生将获得现代标本管理方法的实践经验，这个跨分类网络将为现有的网络平台提供更大的灵活性，以整合数据。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。