Digitization PEN: Integration of data from the UNH Insect Collection with LepNet.

新罕布什尔大学授予唐·钱德勒昆虫学收藏（UNHC）与北美鳞翅目专题收藏网络（LepNet TCN）建立现有网络合作伙伴（PEN）合作的奖项。LepNet TCN解锁了来自美国各地北美鳞翅目的数据，为追踪物种和群落的变化提供了基线，并将它们与气候和其他与人类有关的环境变化联系起来。该PEN将补充Lepnet TCN，增加代表性不足的历史新英格兰飞蛾和蝴蝶，包括来自独特的沥青松/灌丛栎生态系统的物种。该项目将使LepNet中目前数字化的新英格兰物种数量增加63%，数字化标本数量增加40%。该项目的数据将在LepNet门户网站上提供，供研究界、政府机构、学生、教育工作者和一般公众使用。本科生将接受自然历史藏品管理各方面的培训。公众将通过生物闪电战和联合国难民事务中心的年度开放日活动参与其中，其中包括视障学生的年度参观。唐·钱德勒昆虫学收藏馆（UNHC）的70万件具有重要历史意义和分类学意义的标本部分无法向研究人员和公众开放，数字化工作将增加研究和公众获取。在本项目中，学生和技术人员将对5万个标本的标签信息进行成像和转录，生成3.5万个标本图像，并使用Macropod成像系统创建1.5万个小鳞翅目标本的背侧和腹侧的背侧和z叠图像集。该项目将利用一种新的基于手机的成像工作流程，提高昆虫学收藏数字化的速度和准确性。还将参考30,000个标本的地点数据。本科生将在整个过程中接受培训，项目期间记录的数据将整合到新罕布什尔大学的本科课程中，以模拟鳞翅目分布的变化。联合国人权理事会将在斯波尔丁生命科学综合大楼的3个公开展览中展示拟议项目的成果。该项目产生的数据将通过LepNet门户网站、iDigBio.org和gbif.org共享。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行了评估，认为值得支持。

An award is made University of New Hampshire for the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) to establish a Partner to Existing Networks (PEN) collaboration with the Lepidoptera of North America Thematic Collection Network (LepNet TCN). The LepNet TCN unlocks data from North American Lepidoptera holdings across the US that provides a baseline to track changes in species and communities, and to correlate them with climate and other human-related changes in the environment. This PEN will complement the Lepnet TCN by adding underrepresented historic New England moths and butterflies including species from the unique pitch pine / scrub oak ecosystems. The project will increase the number of currently digitized New England species in LepNet by 63 percent and the number of digitized specimens by 40 percent. Data from this project will be made available on the LepNet portal for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, and the general public. Undergraduate students will be trained in all aspects of nature history collection curation. The general public will be engaged through Bioblitz and annual Open Day events at UNHC, which includes yearly tours for visually impaired students. The 700,000 specimens of the historical and taxonomically important holdings of the Don Chandler Entomological Collection (UNHC) have been partially inaccessible to researchers and the general public, and digitization effort will increase research and public access. During this project students and technicians will image and transcribe the label information of 50,000 specimens, generate 35,000 specimen images and create the dorsal and z-stack image sets of the dorsal and ventral sides of 15,000 microlepidoptera specimens using a Macropod imaging system. This project will utilize a new, cell phone-based imaging workflow that increases the speed and accuracy of the digitization of entomological collections. Locality data for 30,000 specimens will also be georeferenced. Undergraduate students will be trained throughout this process and data recorded during this project will be integrated into undergraduate courses at the University of New Hampshire to model changes in distribution of Lepidoptera. The UNHC will display results from the proposed project in 3 public exhibits at the Spaulding Life Science Complex. Data produced by this project will be shared through the LepNet portal, iDigBio.org, and GBIF.org.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.