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集网络项目“北美地衣和苔藓植物：环境质量和变化的敏感指标”。 该项目将为来自北美的约107，000个样本提供标签数据。 这两个植物标本馆包括在这个笔是特别丰富的18日至20世纪初的世纪的收藏，这将填补一个重要的空白，在实现TCN的目标。已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环境变化的研究，这可能会影响地衣和苔藓的分布模式。其他研究项目，使用基于地图的分析历史与当今的数据，可以解决的问题，如这些超敏感的生物体是否可以作为预警生物指标，以突出早期的原因和环境变化的影响？ 此外，这些具历史意义的标本及其数据，将有助研究本地植被的变化，而这项计划的结果，亦有助我们加深了解及提高能力，及早察觉环境质素的成因及模式，例如空气及水质的变化，从而造福社会。 这个项目将提供博物馆策展和数据库管理的经验，本科生和研究生。 外联将包括设计和实施学前和一年级活动，向年轻学生介绍新的颜色，自然世界中奇怪和有趣的事物的纹理，以及所有生物体都很重要的想法。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数字化，从这个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).