Digitization PEN: Integration of data from the UNH Insect Collection with LepNet.

授予新汉普郡大学唐·钱德勒昆虫收藏(UNHC)与北美鳞翅目主题收藏网络(LepNet TCN)合作伙伴现有网络(PEN)。LepNet TCN解锁了美国各地北美鳞翅目昆虫保有量的数据，为跟踪物种和群落的变化提供了基线，并将它们与气候和其他与人类有关的环境变化联系起来。这个圈子将补充Lepnet TCN，增加代表性不足的历史新英格兰飞蛾和蝴蝶，包括来自独特的松树/灌木橡树生态系统的物种。该项目将使LepNet中目前数字化的新英格兰物种数量增加63%，数字化标本数量增加40%。该项目的数据将在LepNet门户网站上提供，供研究社区、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和公众使用。本科生将接受自然历史收藏馆藏各方面的培训。公众将通过Bioblitz和联合国大学的年度开放日活动参与其中，其中包括为视障学生举办的年度参观活动。唐·钱德勒昆虫学藏品(UNHC)的70万件具有历史和分类学重要性的标本部分无法向研究人员和普通公众开放，数字化工作将增加研究和公众获取。在这个项目中，学生和技术人员将对50,000个标本的标签信息进行成像和转录，生成35,000个标本图像，并使用大足目成像系统创建15,000个微鳞翅目标本背侧和腹侧的背侧和Z-STACK图像集。该项目将利用一种新的、基于手机的成像工作流程，以提高昆虫学采集数字化的速度和准确性。还将对30,000个标本的地点数据进行地理参考。本科生将在整个过程中接受培训，在此项目期间记录的数据将被整合到新汉普郡大学的本科课程中，以模拟鳞翅目昆虫分布的变化。联合国儿童基金会将在斯波尔丁生命科学综合体的3个公开展品中展示拟议项目的结果。该项目产生的数据将通过LepNet门户网站、iDigBio.org和GBIF.org共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

An award is made University of New Hampshire for the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) to establish a Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) collaboration with the Lepidoptera of North America Thematic Collection Network (LepNet TCN). The LepNet TCN unlocks data from North American Lepidoptera holdings across the US that provides a baseline to track changes in species and communities, and to correlate them with climate and other human-related changes in the environment. This PEN will complement the Lepnet TCN by adding underrepresented historic New England moths and butterflies including species from the unique pitch pine / scrub oak ecosystems. The project will increase the number of currently digitized New England species in LepNet by 63 percent and the number of digitized specimens by 40 percent. Data from this project will be made available on the LepNet portal for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Undergraduate students will be trained in all aspects of nature history collection curation. The general public will be engaged through Bioblitz and annual Open Day events at UNHC, which includes yearly tours for visually impaired students. The 700,000 specimens of the historical and taxonomically important holdings of the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) have been partially inaccessible to researchers and the general public, and digitization effort will increase research and public access. During this project students and technicians will image and transcribe the label information of 50,000 specimens, generate 35,000 specimen images and create the dorsal and z-stack image sets of the dorsal and ventral sides of 15,000 microlepidoptera specimens using a Macropod imaging system. This project will utilize a new, cell phone-based imaging workflow that increases the speed and accuracy of the digitization of entomological collections. Locality data for 30,000 specimens will also be georeferenced. Undergraduate students will be trained throughout this process and data recorded during this project will be integrated into undergraduate courses at the University of New Hampshire to model changes in distribution of Lepidoptera. The UNHC will display results from the proposed project in 3 public exhibits at the Spaulding Life Science Complex. Data produced by this project will be shared through the LepNet portal, iDigBio.org, and GBIF.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.