Digitization PEN: Adding unique molluscan live-dead data from the Paleontological Research Institution to the Eastern Seaboard TCN

数字化 PEN：将古生物研究所的独特软体动物活死数据添加到东海岸 TCN

• 批准号: 2101814
• 负责人: Gregory Dietl
• 金额: $ 15万
• 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: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2101814&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; PEN; Adding; unique; molluscan

The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) will join the Eastern Seaboard Thematic Collection Network (ESB TCN) as a Partner to an Existing Network (PEN). The PRI’s collection houses hundreds of bulk samples of mollusks from the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States that are highly relevant to the TCN’s goal of linking reliable live-dead trait data to molluscan specimen records. Adding the live-dead status of the mollusks collected greatly facilitates research regarding faunal changes over time and how they correlate with certain environmentally significant events. This project will increase the accessibility and discoverability of these collections, which can be used to assess the status and trends of estuarine resources along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States, particularly oyster reefs. The live-dead samples to be digitized for this project will help: 1) define baselines for estuarine habitats that are often overlooked, and under increasing stress from climate change, invasive species, pollution, overfishing, and habitat destruction, 2) detect recent natural and anthropogenic environmental changes, 3) develop a narrative of the historical range of variability, 4) set realistic targets for restoration, and 5) recognize ecological legacies that can be explained only by events or conditions that are not present in the ecosystem today. These data will help guide management, planning, and restoration efforts for these vulnerable habitats. The outreach activities for the project will create awareness of the value of museum collections in solving environmental change problems.The project will digitize ~158,500 specimens – where the live-dead status of specimens is already known – with enhanced data (e.g., georeferences, updated taxonomy, specimen-level trait data) and mobilize them via online data aggregators, such as iDigBio.org. The primary benefits of these activities to the ESB TCN include: 1) increasing the amount of reliable live-dead collected trait data available, 2) increasing the representation of early life stages of mollusk species, particularly for economically and ecologically important oysters, 3) increasing the representation of estuarine molluscan taxa, and 4) helping to fill a geographic gap in the ESB TCN dataset. Imaging of 27 ESB type specimens will also support the ESB TCN’s goal of linking verified specimen records to photographs of type specimens, helping to increase public access to reliable species information. Beyond the scientific value of the live-dead data that the PRI will contribute to the ESB TCN, this project will build on the PRI’s strong history in developing open access, online introductory-level textbook materials about paleontology and the fossil record. Specific outreach activities include: 1) developing a new page about the importance of live-dead molluscan studies to the existing Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life (DEAL) chapter on conservation paleobiology and 2) creating a short (3-5 minute) video with closed captioning about the importance of live-dead molluscan studies as a conservation tool that will be shared on PRI’s YouTube channel and embedded in the DEAL page itself.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

古生物学研究所 (PRI) 将作为现有网络 (PEN) 的合作伙伴加入东海岸主题收藏网络 (ESB TCN)。 PRI 的收藏藏有来自美国大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸的数百个软体动物样本。这与 TCN 将可靠的活死特征数据与软体动物标本记录联系起来的目标高度相关，添加所收集的软体动物的活死状态极大地促进了相关研究。动物群随时间的变化以及它们与某些环境重大事件的关联性该项目将提高这些藏品的可访问性和可发现性，这些藏品可用于评估美国大西洋和墨西哥湾沿岸河口资源的状况和趋势，特别是牡蛎礁，该项目的数字化活死样本将有助于：1）确定经常被忽视且面临气候变化、入侵物种、污染等压力的河口栖息地的基线。过度捕捞和栖息地破坏，2）检测最近的自然和人为环境变化，3）对历史变化范围进行叙述，4）设定现实的恢复目标，5）认识到只能通过事件或事件来解释的生态遗产这些数据将有助于指导这些脆弱栖息地的管理、规划和恢复工作，该项目的外展活动将提高人们对博物馆藏品在解决环境变化问题方面的价值的认识。将数字化约 158,500 个标本（标本的活死状态已知）具有增强的数据（例如地理参考、更新的分类学、标本级特征数据），并通过 iDigBio.org 等在线数据聚合器调动它们。 ESB TCN 的这些活动包括：1) 增加可靠的活死收集性状数据的数量，2) 增加软体动物早期生命阶段的代表性物种，特别是具有经济和生态重要性的牡蛎，3）增加河口软体动物类群的代表性，4）帮助填补 ESB TCN 数据集中的地理空白，对 27 个 ESB 类型标本的成像也将支持 ESB TCN 链接的目标。验证的标本记录到模式标本的照片，除了 PRI 向 ESB 提供的活死数据的科学价值外，还有助于增加公众获取可靠物种信息的机会。 TCN，该项目将建立在 PRI 在开发有关古生物学和化石记录的开放获取在线入门级教科书材料方面的悠久历史的基础上，具体的外展活动包括：1) 开发一个新页面，介绍活死软体动物研究对人类的重要性。现有的《古代生命数字百科全书》(DEAL) 中有关保护古生物学的章节，以及 2) 创建一个带有隐藏式字幕的简短视频（3-5 分钟），介绍活死软体动物研究的重要性：一种保护工具，将在 PRI 的 YouTube 频道上分享并嵌入 DEAL 页面本身。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。