Digitization PEN: Connecting Rust Belt dynamics to the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project utilizing the Carnegie Museum herbarium

数字化 PEN：利用卡内基博物馆植物标本室将锈带动态与大西洋中部大都市项目联系起来

• 批准号: 1801022
• 负责人: Jacob Heberling
• 金额: $ 17.36万
• 依托单位: Carnegie Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1801022&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Connecting; Rust; Belt

Urbanization represents an extreme form of ecosystem transformation, leading to changes that redefine our conception of nature. However, scientific understanding of our increasingly urban world is limited by the availability of historical data documenting these ecological changes. This project partners the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CM) with the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) Project, a Thematic Collections Network (TCN) involving 11 institutions in the urban corridor from New York City to Washington, D.C., to digitize herbarium specimens from the Mid-Atlantic states. Western Pennsylvania is widely recognized as an urbanized area that was transformed from an industrial powerhouse (and one of the most polluted metropolitan areas in the 19th and 20th centuries) to an emerging center for sustainability and technological innovation. This partnership will fill a "Rust Belt" data gap by including urban areas in Pennsylvania that have undergone remarkable environmental and ecological change over the past two centuries. CM specimens will enhance the MAM Project by adding nearly 190,000 herbarium specimens, increasing the total number of MAM specimens by more than 25%. In addition to making these valuable specimens more accessible through public databases, targeted activities will directly connect digitized data to scientists and the public, contributing to ongoing programs in invasive species management, education of nature in the city, and museum exhibition. Taken together, these activities will improve scientific and public understanding of urban environments, highlighting sustainability and the future of this increasingly common biome in the current era of global change.This project connects an unrepresented, but important, Mid-Atlantic urban region to the MAM Project. Digitization of each CM specimen will result in a high-resolution image and georeferenced point, enabling biogeographic, floristic, and phenotypic analyses through space and time. Data capture, efficient workflow development, and data dissemination will follow best practices, utilizing the existing project infrastructure of the MAM project and iDigBio. Data on non-native species will be made available to PA iMapInvasives program to track the introduction and spread of harmful invasive plants in the region. Further, this project will integrate specimen images into museum exhibits, with the construction of a new exhibit highlighting specimen-based research, the importance of digitization, and the ecological and economic value of plants in cities. In collaboration with museum educators, specimen images will be used in the development of an online toolkit of free science activities for local school teachers that explore nature in urban settings. Weekly blogs will feature specimens of local interest, focusing on the urban plants of Pittsburgh. Collaborating with MAM partners, workshops will be held for local botanical clubs and citizen scientists in the Pittsburgh region to the assist in digitization, specifically joining the efforts of established projects focused on shifts in flowering times across the Eastern US and the development of a virtual flora of the Mid-Atlantic. Collectively, the project will provide research-ready data to enable a better understanding of human-mediated changes at multiple biological, geographic, and temporal scales, as well as predictions for the future ecology of urban areas. All data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

城市化是生态系统转型的一种极端形式，它导致的变化重新定义了我们对自然的概念。然而，对我们日益城市化的世界的科学理解受到记录这些生态变化的历史数据的限制。该项目与卡内基自然历史博物馆（CM）和中大西洋大都市（MAM）项目合作，后者是一个主题收藏网络（TCN），涉及从纽约市到华盛顿，华盛顿特区城市走廊的11个机构，到大西洋中部各州的植物标本馆宾夕法尼亚州西部被广泛认为是一个城市化地区，从一个工业强国（也是19世纪和20世纪污染最严重的大都市区之一）转变为一个新兴的可持续发展和技术创新中心。这种合作伙伴关系将填补“铁锈地带”的数据空白，将宾夕法尼亚州在过去两个世纪中经历了显着环境和生态变化的城市地区纳入其中。CM标本将通过增加近190，000个植物标本馆标本来增强MAM项目，使MAM标本总数增加25%以上。除了通过公共数据库使这些有价值的标本更容易获得外，有针对性的活动将直接将数字化数据与科学家和公众联系起来，为正在进行的入侵物种管理，城市自然教育和博物馆展览项目做出贡献。总之，这些活动将提高科学界和公众对城市环境的理解，突出在当前全球变化时代这个日益普遍的生物群落的可持续性和未来。该项目将一个未被代表但重要的中大西洋城市地区与MAM项目联系起来。每个CM标本的数字化将产生一个高分辨率的图像和地理参考点，使地理，植物区系和表型分析，通过空间和时间。数据采集、高效工作流程开发和数据传播将遵循最佳做法，利用MAM项目和iDigBio的现有项目基础设施。非本地物种的数据将提供给PA iMapInvasives计划，以跟踪该地区有害入侵植物的引进和传播。此外，该项目还将把标本图像融入博物馆展品中，建造一个新的展品，突出以植物为基础的研究、数字化的重要性以及植物在城市中的生态和经济价值。与博物馆教育工作者合作，将利用标本图像为在城市环境中探索自然的当地学校教师开发免费科学活动的在线工具包。每周博客将以当地感兴趣的标本为特色，重点是匹兹堡的城市植物。MAM美安萌将与合作伙伴合作，为匹兹堡地区的当地植物学俱乐部和公民科学家举办研讨会，以协助数字化工作，特别是加入专注于美国东部开花时间变化和开发大西洋中部虚拟植物群的既定项目的努力。总的来说，该项目将提供可供研究的数据，以便更好地了解多种生物、地理和时间尺度上人类介导的变化，以及对城市地区未来生态的预测。 该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。