Partnership to the Existing New England Vascular Plant Network for Collections at the New York Botanical Garden

纽约植物园的威廉和琳达·斯蒂尔植物标本馆(NY)建议加入现有的主题收集网络(TCN)，题为动员新英格兰维管植物标本数据以跟踪环境变化。该项目的目标是从保存下来的植物标本中挖掘数据，以支持对过去三个世纪新英格兰地区环境变化的性质和后果的研究。纽约植物园将在其他机构数字化的130万份标本中贡献约15万份数字化标本。通过该项目产生的数据将立即用于研究气候和土地利用变化的科学家，并将更好地了解全球变化将如何影响未来本地和引进植物物种的分布。该项目将为应届大学毕业生提供与职业相关的管理培训，并将为大学本科生提供就业和工作经验，让这些年轻人接触到大学里不常见的环境科学方面。公民科学家将被邀请参与这个项目，帮助转录标签数据，地理参考，并为物候状态的标本评分。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。

The New York Botanical Garden's William and Lynda Steere Herbarium (NY) proposes to join the existing Thematic Collections Network (TCN) entitled, Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Changes. The goal of this project is to mine data from preserved plant specimens in order to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. The New York Botanical Garden will contribute approximately 150,000 digitized specimens to the 1.3 million specimens that will be digitized at other institutions. Data generated through this project will be of immediate use to scientists who study climate and land-use change, and will provide a better understanding of how global changes will impact the distribution of native and introduced plant species in the future. The project will provide career-relevant management training for a recent college graduate, and will provide employment and job experience for college undergraduates, exposing these young people to an aspect of environmental science not commonly taught in universities. Citizen scientists will be invited to participate in this project by helping to transcribe label data, georeferencing, and scoring specimens for phenological state. 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).