2020 TCN and PEN Awards

Welcome to all of the newly NSF-funded Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) projects. This year we have three new Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) and 13 Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) joining the community.

2020 TCNs:

• Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities
• Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard
• Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn)

and the 2020 PENS:

• Expanding and enhancing the California Phenology TCN
• Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network (NEVP) for the Environmental Management and Monitoring Alliance (EMMA)
• Contribution of Digital Data from Ground-dwelling Orthopteroid Orders at American Museum of Natural History to the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network
• Augmenting the Endless Forms TCN: digitization of imperiled plants with unique morphological adaptations
• GalapaGateway: Unlocking Model Evolutionary Systems for Research and Education
• CryptoVert - Digitizing small-bodied cryptobenthic fishes for the oVertTCN
• oMeso: Opening Mesoamerican Herpetofaunal Diversity to Whole Phenome Imaging
• Addition of the Yale Peabody Museum to the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Network
• Enhancing LepNet: Digitization and integration of significant butterfly and moth collections from the upper Midwest Tension Zone region
• Integration of data from the UNH Insect Collection with LepNet
• Invertebrates from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History expands taxonomic and geographic coverage of InvertEBase
• oBird: 3D Photogrammetry of Museum Specimens for Phenomics across the Avian Tree of Life
• Integrating the unique collections of southern Illinois at SIU to improve coverage of the Southeastern US Flora in SERNEC

Welcome to the ADBC community, and we are looking forward to working with you!