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: 1405396
• 负责人: Andrew Hipp
• 金额: $ 15.31万
• 依托单位: Morton Arboretum
• 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 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1405396&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，运输和旅游业产生了灾难性的影响，并继续威胁到本地物种和湿地生态系统的生存。 由于其潜力成为水生侵入剂的潜力，因此将其他物种放在了监视清单上。 该项目将建立一个从MN，WI，IL，IN，IN，MI，OH和NY的大湖州中的草药和动物学博物馆网络，以更好地记录这些物种在时空中的发生，并在线访问关键生物体的标本信息。已经采取了多项举措，以提醒公民在我们国家的水道之间传播水生侵入剂的危险，但是该项目将为科学家，学生，野生动植物官员，老师和公众开发互补的科学和教育工具，这些工具几乎无法从过去三个百年来的保留标本中直接获得图像或数据。来自八个州的25个机构和加拿大的25个机构的这个双国主题收集网络将数字化173万个历史标本，代表2,550种异国情调的鱼类，蛤，蜗牛，贻贝，藻类，植物，植物及其外观，可记录在大湖盆地中。这是将液体保存的标本数字化并整合跨王国类群的首批努力之一，这些方法可能成为跨分类单元数字化的国家标准。将为学生提供现代标本策划方法的动手经验，该跨塔克斯逊网络将为现有的Web平台提供更大的灵活性以集成数据。该奖项是通过推进生物收集计划的数字化数字化生物收集资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。