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 [1]
• Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard [2]
• Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) [3]

and the 2020 PENS:

• Expanding and enhancing the California Phenology TCN [4]
• Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network (NEVP) for the Environmental Management and Monitoring Alliance (EMMA) [5]
• Contribution of Digital Data from Ground-dwelling Orthopteroid Orders at American Museum of Natural History to the Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network [6]
• Augmenting the Endless Forms TCN: digitization of imperiled plants with unique morphological adaptations [7]
• GalapaGateway: Unlocking Model Evolutionary Systems for Research and Education [8]
• CryptoVert - Digitizing small-bodied cryptobenthic fishes for the oVertTCN [9]
• oMeso: Opening Mesoamerican Herpetofaunal Diversity to Whole Phenome Imaging [10]
• Addition of the Yale Peabody Museum to the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT) Network [11]
• Enhancing LepNet: Digitization and integration of significant butterfly and moth collections from the upper Midwest Tension Zone region [12]
• Integration of data from the UNH Insect Collection with LepNet [13]
• Invertebrates from the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History expands taxonomic and geographic coverage of InvertEBase [14]
• oBird: 3D Photogrammetry of Museum Specimens for Phenomics across the Avian Tree of Life [15]
• Integrating the unique collections of southern Illinois at SIU to improve coverage of the Southeastern US Flora in SERNEC [16]

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