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:

ACTIVE

Award Year 2019

(TCN) Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease: TPT

(TCN) American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States: TORCH

(TCN) Enhancing Access to Taxonomic and Biogeographical Data to Stem the Tide of Extinction of the Highly Imperiled Pacific Island Land Snails: PILSBRY

Award Year 2018

(TCN) Capturing California's Flowers: Using Digital Images to Investigate Phenological Change in a Biodiversity Hotspot: CAP

(TCN) The Pteridological Collections Consortium: An integrative Approach to Pteridophyte Diversity Over the Last 420 Million Years: PCC

(TCN) Digitizing "Endless Forms": Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies: Endless Forms

Award Year 2017

(TCN) Using Herbarium Data to Document Plant Niches in the High Peaks and High Plains of the Southern Rockies - Past, Present, and Future: SoRo

• (PEN) 2019 Enhancing the SoRo TCN with collections of taxonomic, geographic, and historic significance from the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden Herbarium

(TCN) oVert: Open Exploration of Vertebrate Diversity in 3D: oVert

• (PEN) 2018 oMEGA - Online Metrology of Extant Giant Animals for the oVert TCN
• (PEN) 2019 Functional Quantitative Characters for Ecology and Evolution (FuncQEE)
• (PEN) 2019 The oUTCT PEN: Outwardly Mobilizing the UTCT Vertebrate Archive for Research and Training

Award Year 2016

(TCN) The Cretaceous World: Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems in the Western Interior Seaway

• (PEN) 2017 Expanding and Enhancing a TCN Digitizing Fossils to Reconstruct Evolving Ecosystems the Cretaceous Western Interior Seaway
• (PEN) 2019 The Cretaceous World: Connecting the Cretaceous Seas of North America

(TCN) Lepidoptera of North America Network: Documenting Diversity in the Largest Clade of Herbivores

• (PEN) 2019 Integration of data from the San Diego Natural History Museum with the Lepidoptera of North America Network

(TCN) The Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis: Achieving a Greater Scientific Understanding of our Urban World

• (PEN) 2017 Partnering the Penn State Herbarium (PAC) to Contextualize the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis
• (PEN) 2018 Connecting Rust Belt Dynamics to the Mid-Atlantic Magalopolis Utilizing the Carnegie Museum Herbarium

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

• (PEN) 2018 Enhancing the EPICC TCN with Unique, Well-Curated but Poorly Accessible Collections at the University of California - Riverside
• (PEN) 2019 Critical Central and South American additions to the EPICC TCN from the oldest Invertebrate Paleontology collection in the United States

Award Year 2014

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

• (PEN) 2016 Augmenting the Temporal and Geographic Range of InvertEBase through Additional Collaboration of the Chicago Academy of Sciences
• (PEN) 2018 Mollusca and Arthropoda Biodiversity in the Colorado Plateau Region

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

• (PEN) 2017 Integrating the Herbaria of Peninsular Florida, a Biodiversity Hotspot of Endemism, Rarity, and Richness
• (PEN) 2018 Filling in Knowledge Gaps with Key Herbaria for Understanding Vascular Plant Diversity in the Atlantic Coastal Plain

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
• (PEN) 2017 Digitizing the Fossil Insects of LA: Critical Additions to the Fossil Insect Collaborative

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

Award Year 2012

(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
• (PEN) 2017 Incorporation of a Massive New World Invertebrate Collection at the University of Texas at El Paso
• (PEN) 2018 Field Museum of Natural History Partnership with the Southwest Collection of Arthropods Network

COMPLETED

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

Award Year 2013

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

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) 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) 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
• (PEN) 2017 Paleoniches on the Western Cincinnati Arch, the Ordovician of Indiana

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)