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|valign="top"|InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN  

|valign="top"|The TCN "InvertEBase" is a 4-year collaborative effort to digitize specimen records from ten arthropod and mollusk collections housed at six major US museums in six states, three of them ranking among the top 10 collections in the world.

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|valign="top"|The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|Macroalgae are the foundation of marine, estuarine and freshwater benthic ecosystems providing food, substrata and protection for a myriad of other aquatic organisms. Many macroalgal species are sensitive to environmental change. The data provided through the portal will allow researchers and the public at large determine how macroalgal biodiversity and our aquatic ecosystems have changed over the past 150 years as a result of climate change, bioinvasions, and a wide range of human activity.

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|valign="top"|Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Specimen Data to Track Environmental Change  

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|NEVP will provide data to support studies of the nature and consequences of environmental change in the New England region over the last three centuries. This project will digitally capture specimen data and images from about 1.3 million vascular plant specimens housed in 15 large to small herbaria located across the region and then share online the resulting images and data.  

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|valign="top"|Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography - Creating a PALEONICHES<br>  

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|The Paleoniches project will digitize nearly 450,000 specimens belonging to 900 species from several museums throughout the U.S. and will focus on three different time periods in the history of life: the Ordovician, Pennsylvanian, and Neogene. We will create on line digital atlases illustrating and describing these fossils and providing maps showing where they can be found and an 'app' so these atlases can be used on handheld devices out in the field.  

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|valign="top"|SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections<br>The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|The current project will allow the SERNEC group to make data available for over 3 million specimens using the latest photography and information capture tools and to engage citizen scientists and students to assist in transcribing and georeferencing this large dataset. The research generated through this project can help regional planners, land managers and communities to manage their natural resources in our ever-changing environment.

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|valign="top"|Tri-Trophic Databasing<br>Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|This Thematic Collection Network (TCN) focused on one of the major herbivorous insect clades, the Hemiptera (aphids, scales, hoppers, cicadas, and true bugs), their host plants, and their parasitoids in a Tri-Trophic Databasing and imaging project.  

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|valign="top"|Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals

|valign="top"|data aggregator, TCN

|valign="top"|VACS will digitize and make accessible media recordings associated with physical voucher specimens, broadly organized around the research theme of understanding the evolution and ecology of communication signals.  

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