Digitization PEN: Digitization of two Important Medium-sized Collections to Join the North American Bryophytes and Lichens TCN

摘要：数字化PEN：两个重要中型收藏品中的北美苔藓植物和地衣的数字化，该项目加入了北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化敏感指标专题收藏品网络。我们将在明尼苏达大学（MIN）和耶鲁大学（YU）标本馆对91，300个地衣和苔藓标本记录进行成像和地理参考。地衣和苔藓的历史记录，沿着收集地点的地理坐标，非常适合调查与全球环境变化有关的各种问题。本笔会的收藏品是北美标本的重要区域储存库，并将其数字化将填补TCN目标的相当大的空白，即将北美几乎所有地衣和苔藓植物标本数字化，并添加具有历史意义的标本。该项目产生的数据将立即用于研究生态系统如何应对气候变化的科学家以及使用地衣和苔藓植物作为指标的科学家空气质量。这项工作的社会效益包括更好地理解是什么导致生态系统变化，以及环境变化如何影响人类健康，我们的经济和环境。该项目通过向不同背景的高中生提供实习机会，并让本科生和研究生参与项目活动，向新一代学生介绍博物馆收藏品。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iDigBio.org提供。

ABSTRACT: Digitization PEN: Digitization of North American bryophytes and lichens in two important medium-sized collections.This project joins the North American Lichens and Bryophytes: Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change Thematic Collections Network (LBCC TCN). We will contribute by imaging and georeferencing 91,300 lichen and bryophyte specimen records at the University of Minnesota (MIN) and the Yale University (YU) herbaria. Historical records of lichens and bryophytes, along with geographic coordinates of collecting localities, are ideally suited for investigating a variety of questions related to global environmental change. The collections included in this PEN are each important regional repositories of North American specimens, and digitizing them will fill a considerable gap in the TCN's goal of digitizing nearly all lichen and bryophyte specimens in North America and add historically important specimens.Data resulting from this project will be of immediate use to scientists who study how ecosystems respond to climate change and who use lichens and bryophytes as indicators of air quality. Societal benefits of this work include improved understanding of what causes ecosystem change and how environmental change may affect human health, our economy, and our environment. This project introduces a new generation of students to museum collections by offering internships to high school students of diverse backgrounds and by involving undergraduates and graduate students in project activities. 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 iDigBio.org.