TCNs

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:

Award Year 2016

(TCN) The Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in the Western Interior Seaway (Cretaceous World)
(TCN) Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores (LepNet)
(TCN) The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a greater scientific understanding of our urban world (MAM)

Award Year 2015

(TCN) The Microfungi Collections Consortium: A Networked Approach to Digitizing Small Fungi with Large Impacts on the Function and Health of Ecosystems

(TCN) Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrate Communities of the Eastern Pacific - Faunal Responses to Environmental Change over the last 66 million years

Award Year 2014

(TCN) Documenting the Occurrence through Space and Time of Aquatic Non-indigenous Fish, Mollusks, Algae, and Plants Threatening North America's Great Lakes

(TCN) InvertEBase: Reaching Back to See the Future: Species-rich Invertebrate Faunas Document Causes and Consequences of Biodiversity Shifts

(PEN) 2016Augmenting the temporal and geographic range of InvertEBase through additional collaboration of the Chicago Academy of Sciences

(TCN) The Key to the Cabinets: Building and Sustaining a Research Database for a Global Biodiversity Hotspot

Award Year 2013

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

• (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the Fossil Insect Collaborative for Collections at the University of California Museum of Paleontology

(TCN) Developing a Centralized Digital Archive of Vouchered Animal Communication Signals

(TCN) The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium: Accessing 150 Years of Specimen Data to Understand Changes in the Marine/Aquatic Environment

Award Year 2012

(TCN) Mobilizing New England Vascular Plant Data to Track Environmental Changes

• (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the New England Vascular Plant Network for the University of Maine Herbarium
• (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the Existing New England Vascular Plant Network for Collections at the New York Botanical Garden

(TCN) Digitizing Fossils to Enable New Syntheses in Biogeography- Creating a PALEONICHES

• (PEN) 2013 Targeted Digitization to Expand and Enhance the PALEONICHES TCN
• (PEN) 2013 Increasing the Robustness of the Ordovician and Pennsylvanian Dataset of PALEONICHES-TCN

(TCN) The Macrofungi Collection Consortium: Unlocking a Biodiversity for Understanding Biotic Interactions, Nutrient Cycling and Human Affairs

• (PEN) 2014 Partnership to Existing Macrofungi Collection Consortium--Digitization of an Important Regional Collection of Macrofungi at the Pringle Herbarium
• (PEN) 2015 Partnership to the Macrofungi Collection Consortium for the Richard Homola Mycological Herbarium

(TCN) Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network (SCAN): A Model for Collections Digitization to Promote Taxonomic and Ecological Research

• (PEN) 2013 Facilitating a Shared Image Library and Occurrence Database for Ants of the Southwest as Part of the SCAN TCN
• (PEN) 2014 Ground-dwelling Insects in the Brigham Young University Collection, Enhancement to SCAN
• (PEN) 2015 Integration of data from the Triplehorn Insect Collection with the Southwestern Collections of Arthropods Network
• (PEN) 2016 The addition of OrthopNet to SCAN

Award Year 2011

(TCN) InvertNet: An Integrative Platform for Research on Environmental Change, Species Discovery and Identification

• (PEN) 2013 Digitizing the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History's Historic Invertebrate Collections through the InvertNet TCN

(TCN) Plants, Herbivores, and Parasitoids: A Model System for the Study of Tri-trophic Associations

(TCN) North American Lichens and Bryophytes - Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change

• (PEN) 2012 Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Florida Herbaria
• (PEN) 2012 Addressing Colorado Lichens and Bryophytes as Sensitive Indicators of Environmental Quality and Change
• (PEN) 2013 Digitization of two Important Medium-sized Collections to Join the North American Bryophytes and Lichens TCN
• (PEN) 2014 Digitization of North American Bryophyte and Lichen Specimens from Two Ohio Herbaria at the University of Cincinnati (CINC)