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。

• 批准号: 1503628
• 负责人: Peter Roopnarine
• 金额: $ 53.03万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 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 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1503628&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).

化石提供了我们过去生物多样性的唯一直接证据，以及对生态系统的单个生物如何对过去和长期环境变化做出反应。该项目填补了过去的环境变化的文献记录的一个重大空白，从而获得了数字化的数据，该数据从杜诺研究的东部太平洋海洋无脊椎动物社区的特别丰富的化石记录中获得了数字化数据，这是自恐龙灭绝以来已经过去的6600万年。这些数据的数字化和集成将提高可访问性，有效的分析以了解过去的变化，识别该变化的因素，并启用对当前生物多样性如何受到未来变化影响的预测。虚拟现场工作经验的开发将有助于利益相关者和教育者了解现场数据和化石收集如何用于推断过去的生态系统和环境状况。当前，数据作为大量的化石标本和印刷材料集合在多个自然历史集合中：这项目涉及7个主要机构，一个小型收藏和一个联邦机构，并将通过Web Portal Idigpaleo与其他两个正在进行的化石网络整合了此数字化标本数据，从而扩大了超过5亿年的化石无脊椎动物信息资源。这些丰富的数据不仅将为研究人员提供资源，而且将为K-16教育者，政府，工业和公众提供资源。通过国家资源（IDIGBIO），这些数据将与有关现代生物的信息集成在一起，这些信息提供了了解有关壁ni，环境变化，海平面过渡等重要问题的方法。此外，将在现代用途中对本科生和研究生进行培训。自然历史收藏。该奖项是通过推进生物收集计划的数字化数字化生物收集资源的一部分，该奖项产生的所有数据将通过国家资源（idigbio.org）获得。