Digitization PEN: Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Two Ohio Herbaria at the University of Cincinnati (CINC)

该项目加入了正在进行的专题收藏网络项目“北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标”。该项目将为北美约107,000个标本提供标签数据。本笔录所包括的两种植物标本馆都是18世纪至20世纪早期的丰富藏品，这将填补TCN实现目标的重要空白。众所周知，这些生物对环境变化高度敏感，因此，这些数据将支持未来对这一历史时期的环境变化的研究，这些变化可能随着时间的推移影响地衣和苔藓植物的分布模式。其他研究项目，使用基于地图的历史和现代数据的分析，可以解决这样的问题，这些高度敏感的生物能否作为早期预警生物指标，以突出环境变化的早期原因和影响？此外，这些历史标本的暴露及其数据将有助于研究当地植被的变化。这个项目的结果将对社会有益，因为它增加了我们对早期发现环境质量的因果因素和结果模式的理解和能力，例如空气和水质的变化。本项目将为本科生和研究生提供博物馆策展和数据库管理方面的经验。拓展活动将包括设计和实施学前班和一年级的活动，向年轻学生介绍自然界中奇怪而有趣的事物的新颜色，纹理，以及所有生物都很重要的想法。该奖项是国家生物馆藏数字化资源的一部分，通过推进生物馆藏数字化计划，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。

This project joins the ongoing Thematic Collections Network project "North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change". The project will contribute label data for approximately 107,000 specimens form North America. Both herbaria included in this PEN are especially rich in 18th to early 20th Century collections which will fill an important gap in attaining the TCN's goals. These organisms are known to be highly sensitive to environmental changes and, accordingly this data, will support future research on environmental changes during this period of history which may influence distributional patterns of lichens and bryophytes over time. Other research projects, that use map-based analyses of historical vs. present-day data, could address questions such as, can these hyper-sensitive organisms be used as early warning bioindicators to highlight the early causes and effects of environmental change? In addition, exposure of these historical specimens and their data will be useful for studies of changes in the local vegetation.The results of this project will be useful to society by increasing our understanding and our ability for early detection of the causal factors and resulting patterns of environmental quality including, for example, changes in air and water quality. This project will provide experience in museum curation and database management to undergraduate and graduate students. Outreach will include design and implementation of pre-K and 1st grade activities to introduce young students to new colors, textures of the strange and interesting things in the natural world, and the idea that all organisms are important. 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).