Digitization TCN: Collaborative Research: Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change

昆虫化石提供了对过去环境变化的生态和进化反应的独特的深层记录，因此对于理解气候变化对当前生物多样性危机的影响是非常宝贵的。鉴于目前的未来气候变化模型和昆虫在人类社会中扮演的重要角色(生物多样性、害虫、授粉、疾病媒介)，获取这些数据并预测未来昆虫种群的能力变得更加迫切。昆虫化石合作中心将通过创建由数字图像和相关收集数据组成的电子标本记录，提供美国所有主要的昆虫化石标本收藏。数字化的昆虫化石收藏将通过项目网站和一个名为iDigPaleo的整合所有古生物学专题收藏网络的中央网站，向研究界、K-16教育、政府和行业、普通公众和媒体广泛提供。将开发移动应用程序和活动，允许各种用户体验收集数据并与其直接互动。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分颁发的，由该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源(iDigBio.org)获得。

Fossil insects provide a unique deep-time record of ecological and evolutionary response to past environmental changes and therefore are invaluable for understanding the impacts of climate change on the current biodiversity crisis. Given current models of future climate change and the important role that insects play in human society (biodiversity, pests, pollination, vectors of disease) the ability to access these data and make predictions about future insect populations becomes even more urgent. The Fossil Insect Collaborative will make available all the major collections of fossil insect specimens in the United States by creating electronic specimen records consisting of digital images and associated collection data. The digitized fossil insect collections will be made broadly accessible to the research community, K-16 education, government and industry, the general public, and the media through the project website and a central site integrating all the paleobiological Thematic Collections Networks called iDigPaleo. Mobile apps and activities that allow a wide variety of users to experience and interact directly with the collections data will be developed. 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).