Digitization PEN: Digitizing the Fossil Insects of LA: Critical Additions to the Fossil Insect Collaborative

数字化 PEN：对洛杉矶昆虫化石进行数字化：昆虫化石协作的重要补充

基本信息

批准号：
1702342
负责人：
Austin Hendy
金额：
$ 15.75万
依托单位：
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-09-01 至 2020-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1702342&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Digitization PEN Digitizing Fossil Insects

项目摘要

The primary goal of this project is to digitize five fossil insect collections from the United States, Germany, and Canada. These efforts will make nearly 27,000 new specimen records digitally available online. Collectively, these data will complement the previously awarded Fossil Insect Collaborative (FIC) Digitization (FIC) TCN by filling gaps in the existing dataset, and make these otherwise difficult to access collections significantly more visible to the interested public and research community. This information will facilitate current research aimed at better understanding the globally most diverse group of animals in the context of past, present, and future environments. Results of this project will be communicated to the public through museum events and K-12 classroom programming, ongoing partnership with local avocational paleontologists, and other educational resources developed by the FIC-TCN, including iDigPaleo.The fossil insect collections to be digitized through this award include compression fossils from the Oligocene Rott Formation ("Statz Collection") of Germany, silicified insects from the Miocene Barstow Formation of California, asphalt-preserved insects from the Pleistocene deposits of Rancho La Brea and McKittrick in California, and lignite-associated insects of Lynn Creek, British Columbia. Notably, these collections are largely historic in nature and include 1,819 type specimens that have been inaccessible for taxonomic re-evaluation by the international research community for decades. Further, the Rott fauna represents an important calibration point in understanding fossil insect diversity trends with respect to global climate transitions (the primary research theme of the FIC-TCN), and the Barstow fauna is taphonomically distinct, as it includes three-dimensionally silicified insect body fossils. Digitization will involve cataloging 10,906 specimens and selectively imaging 6,207 specimens, as well as making available an additional 15,684 specimen records from the La Brea Tar Pits and Museum in this data aggregation, all of which will be made available online via the national resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (http://www.idigbio.com).

该项目的主要目标是将来自美国、德国和加拿大的五个昆虫化石收藏数字化。这些努力将使近 27,000 个新的标本记录以数字方式在线提供。总的来说，这些数据将通过填补现有数据集的空白来补充之前授予的化石昆虫合作（FIC）数字化（FIC）TCN，并使这些难以访问的收藏品对感兴趣的公众和研究界更加明显。这些信息将有助于当前的研究，旨在更好地了解过去、现在和未来环境中全球最多样化的动物群体。该项目的结果将通过博物馆活动和 K-12 课堂规划、与当地业余古生物学家的持续合作以及 FIC-TCN 开发的其他教育资源（包括 iDigPaleo）向公众传达。化石昆虫收藏将通过该项目实现数字化奖项包括来自德国渐新世罗特地层（“Statz Collection”）的压缩化石、来自加利福尼亚州中新世巴斯托地层的硅化昆虫、沥青保存的昆虫来自加利福尼亚州拉布雷亚牧场和麦基特里克的更新世沉积物，以及不列颠哥伦比亚省林恩溪的褐煤相关昆虫。值得注意的是，这些藏品基本上具有历史意义，包括 1,819 个模式标本，国际研究界几十年来一直无法对这些标本进行分类学重新评估。此外，罗特动物群代表了理解全球气候转变（FIC-TCN 的主要研究主题）昆虫化石多样性趋势的重要校准点，而巴斯托动物群在埋藏学上是独特的，因为它包括三维硅化昆虫尸体化石。数字化将涉及对 10,906 个标本进行编目，对 6,207 个标本进行选择性成像，并在该数据聚合中提供来自拉布雷亚焦油坑和博物馆的额外 15,684 个标本记录，所有这些都将通过国家推进数字化资源在线提供生物多样性收藏 (http://www.idigbio.com)。