TCNs: Difference between revisions

Each Thematic Collections Network (TCN) is a network of institutions with a strategy for digitizing information that addresses a particular research theme, such as impacts of climate change or biota of a region. Once digitized, data are easily accessed and available for other research and educational use. Other institutions and collections may join an existing TCN as a Partner to Existing Network (PEN). The following are the TCNs, and any associated PENs, currently funded by the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) project:

(TCN) [[TCN: Collaborative Research: Digitization and Enrichment of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa to Enable Urgent Quantitative Conservation Assessments]]

(TCN) [[TCN: iDigBees Network, Towards Complete Digitization of US Bee Collections to Promote Ecological and Evolutionary Research in a Keystone Clade]]

(TCN) [[TCN: Extending Anthophila research through image and trait digitization (Big-Bee)]]: BigBee

(TCN) [[Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities]]: GLOBAL

(TCN) [[Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)]]: DigIn

(TCN) [[Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease]]: TPT

*(PEN) 2020 [[Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease#PENs | Addition of the Yale Peabody Museum to the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Network]]

*(PEN) 2021 [[Adding a world-class flea collection to the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker network]]

(TCN) [[American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States]]: TORCH

(TCN) [[Enhancing Access to Taxonomic and Biogeographical Data to Stem the Tide of Extinction of the Highly Imperiled Pacific Island Land Snails]]: PILSBRY

== Award Year 2018 ==

(TCN) [[Capturing California's Flowers: Using Digital Images to Investigate Phenological Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot]]: CAP

(TCN) [[The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An integrative Approach to Pteridophyte Diversity Over the Last 420 Million Years]]: PCC

(TCN) [[Digitizing "Endless Forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies]]: Endless Forms

*(PEN) 2020 [[Digitizing "Endless Forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies#PENs | Augmenting the Endless Forms TCN: digitization of imperiled plants with unique morphological adaptations]]

(TCN) [[Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future]]: SoRo

*(PEN) 2019 [[Enhancing the SoRo TCN with collections of taxonomic, geographic, and historic significance from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Herbarium]]

(TCN) [[oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D]]: oVert

*(PEN) 2020 [[oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D#PENs | GalapaGateway: Unlocking Model Evolutionary Systems for Research and Education]]

*(PEN) 2020 [[oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D#PENs | oBird: 3D Photogrammetry of Museum Specimens for Phenomics across the Avian Tree of Life]]

*(PEN) 2021 [[BatPEN!—A Partnership to Facilitate Scientific Inquiry into the Vast Functional Trait Diversity of Phyllostomid Bats]]

(TCN) [[The Cretaceous World | The Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in the Western Interior Seaway]]

*(PEN) 2017 [[The Cretaceous World#PENs | Expanding and Enhancing a TCN Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway]]

*(PEN) 2019 [[The Cretaceous World: Connecting the Cretaceous Seas of North America]]

(TCN) [[Lepidoptera of North America Network | Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores]]

*(PEN) 2020 [[Lepidoptera of North America Network#PENs | Enhancing LepNet: Digitization and integration of significant butterfly and moth collections from the upper Midwest Tension Zone region]]

*(PEN) 2021 [[Small and Hungry: Enhancing LepNet TCN with microlepidoptera and 50 years of host plant data from the Essig Museum]]

(TCN) [[The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis | The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a Greater Scientific Understanding of our Urban World]]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(TCN) [[Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change]]

*(PEN) 2015 [[Fossil Insect Collaborative: A Deep-Time Approach to Studying Diversification and Response to Environmental Change#PENs | Partnership to the Fossil Insect Collaborative for Collections at the University of California Museum of Paleontology]]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*(PEN) 2014 [[North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change#PENs | Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Two Ohio Herbaria at the University of Cincinnati (CINC)]]