Digitization TCN: Collaborative: Documenting Fossil Marine Invertebrate Communities of the Eastern Pacific: Faunal Responses to Environmental Change over the last 66 million years

数字化 TCN：协作：记录东太平洋海洋无脊椎动物群落化石：过去 6600 万年动物区系对环境变化的反应

• 批准号: 1503611
• 负责人: Gregory Dietl
• 金额: $ 35.24万
• 依托单位: Paleontological Research Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503611&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; TCN; Collaborative; Documenting; Fossil

Fossils provide our only direct evidence of past biodiversity and how individual organisms to ecosystems have responded to past and long-term environmental change. This project fills a major gap in the documentation of past environmental change, making available digitized data from the especially rich fossil record of the eastern Pacific marine invertebrate communities of the Cenozoic, the 66 million years that have passed since the extinction of the dinosaurs. Digitization and integration of these data will foster increased accessibility, efficient analysis to understand past change, the identification of factors involved in that change, and enable predictions for how current biodiversity may be impacted by future change. Development of virtual fieldwork experiences will assist stakeholders and educators in understanding how field data and fossil collections are used to infer past ecosystem and environmental conditions.The data currently exist as a vast collection of fossil specimens and printed materials distributed among multiple natural history collections: this project involves 7 primary institutions, one small collection and one federal institution and will integrate this digitized specimen data with the other two ongoing fossil networks through the web portal iDigPaleo, expanding the resource for fossil invertebrate information by spanning over 500 million years. This wealth of data will provide resources not only to researchers, but will be made available to K-16 educators, government, industry, and the general public. Through the national resource (iDigBio) these data will be integrated with information on modern organisms providing the means to understand important questions on niches, environmental change, transitions in sea levels, etc. Additionally, undergraduate and graduate students will be trained in the modern uses of natural history collections. This award is made as part of the National Resource for Digitization of Biological Collections through the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program and all data resulting from this award will be available through the national resource (iDigBio.org).

化石为我们提供了过去生物多样性以及生态系统中的个体生物如何应对过去和长期环境变化的唯一直接证据。该项目填补了记录过去环境变化的一个重大空白，提供了来自新生代东太平洋海洋无脊椎动物群落特别丰富的化石记录的数字化数据，自恐龙灭绝以来已经过去了 6600 万年。这些数据的数字化和整合将促进提高可访问性、有效分析以了解过去的变化、识别变化所涉及的因素，并能够预测当前的生物多样性可能受到未来变化的影响。虚拟实地考察经验的开发将帮助利益相关者和教育工作者了解如何使用实地数据和化石收藏来推断过去的生态系统和环境条件。这些数据目前以分布在多个自然历史收藏中的大量化石标本和印刷材料的形式存在：这该项目涉及 7 个主要机构、一个小型馆藏和一个联邦机构，并将通过门户网站 iDigPaleo 将数字化标本数据与其他两个正在进行的化石网络整合，从而将化石无脊椎动物信息资源扩展至 5 亿多年。这些丰富的数据不仅将为研究人员提供资源，还将提供给 K-16 教育工作者、政府、行业和公众。通过国家资源（iDigBio），这些数据将与现代生物体的信息相结合，为理解生态位、环境变化、海平面转变等重要问题提供手段。此外，本科生和研究生将接受现代用途的培训自然历史收藏。该奖项是通过推进生物收藏数字化计划作为国家生物收藏数字化资源的一部分而颁发的，该奖项产生的所有数据都将通过国家资源 (iDigBio.org) 提供。