Partnership to the Fossil Insect Collaborative for Collections at the University of California Museum of Paleontology

加州大学伯克利分校古生物学博物馆（UCMP）将加入化石昆虫专题收藏网络（TCN），致力于利用古生物学数据了解环境变化对昆虫多样性和进化的影响。该项目将扩大TCN目前的地理覆盖范围，为研究人员和公众提供约4，900种生活在重大气候变化时期的新生代昆虫的网络数字化图像和标本记录。这些标本包括琥珀中的昆虫，一种来自大盆地的罕见昆虫组合，以及来自加州南部兰乔拉布雷亚和麦基特里克沥青坑的冰河时代昆虫。将这些标本添加到化石昆虫TCN中将增强数据集，以分析这些气候敏感的生物如何应对整个地球历史上的突然环境变化，以及气候变暖对当今生物多样性的影响。加州大学伯克利分校的学生将进行数字化，同时了解自然历史收藏品的价值及其与科学的相关性。项目数据将加强UCMP的K-16师生科学教育计划，全球公众宣传和互联网资源。当地社区的投入将有助于开发“DigIt”，这是一个面向研究人员、教师和学生、工业界成员、政府机构和公众的移动的应用程序。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国家资源（iDigBio.org）提供。

The University of California, Berkeley Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) will join the Fossil Insect Thematic Collections Network (TCN) dedicated to understanding the impacts of environmental change on insect diversity and evolution using paleontological data. The project will expand the TCN's current geographic coverage providing researchers and the public with web-accessible digitized images and specimen records of approximately 4,900 Cenozoic insects that lived during times of significant climate change. These specimens include insects in amber, a rare insect assemblage from the Great Basin, and Ice Age insects from southern California's Rancho La Brea and McKittrick tarpits.Addition of these specimens to the Fossil Insect TCN will enhance datasets for analyzing how these climatically-sensitive organisms have responded to abrupt environmental changes throughout Earth history, and the implications of climatic warming on present-day biodiversity. Students at UC Berkeley will perform the digitization while learning about the value of natural history collections and their relevance to science. Project data will enhance UCMP's K-16 teacher-student science education programs, global public outreach, and Internet resources. Input from local communities will assist in developing "DigIt", a mobile application for researchers, teachers and students, members of industry, government agencies, and the public. 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).