The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium ACCESSING 150 YEARS OF SPECIMEN DATA TO UNDERSTAND CHANGES IN THE MARINE/AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT.

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The Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium ACCESSING 150 YEARS OF SPECIMEN DATA TO UNDERSTAND CHANGES IN THE MARINE/AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT

What are Macroalgae? Eukaryota Tree of Life (Bauldauf 2003)

What are Macroalgae? Rhodophyta (Red Algae) - 6,300 species in 10 orders Chlorophyta (Green Algae) - 4,300 species in 15 orders Charophyta - 3,500 species in 8 orders Phaeophyta (Brown Algae) - 2,000 species in 18 orders

Why Are They Important?  Foundation of aquatic ecosystems – provide food, shelter and substrate for other organisms  Maintain nutrient balance in aquatic ecosystem and produce oxygen  $7.4 billion industry as human food, phycocolloids, pharmaceuticals  Sensitive indicator of environmental changes in aquatic ecosystems

How Many Specimens Are There in US Herbaria?  1.2 Million in collections ranging from 100 specimens to 200,000.  Project goal is to digitize (image, database, georeference) all of them.

Where Are The Specimens? Macroalgal Herbarium Consortium

What Information Do They Contain?  Label Information  Taxonomic determinations and annotations, collector(s), collection date, locality, habitat, depth, associated species, etc.  Specimen  Gross, morphological characteristics, reproductive status, general condition.  DNA  Cellular characterisics

How Are They Being Digitized?  Barcoding and Skeletal Record Creation  Manual/semi-automated entry  Barcode,  filed-as name,  country, state, county)

How Are They Being Digitized?  Imaging  Lightbox/copystand  21 to 36 megapixel camera  Camera Control Software  Adobe Lightroom (white balance, tone curve adjustment, jpg & dng export)

How Are They Being Digitized?  Label Transcription  Voice recognition (collector(s), collection date, accession number,  Optical character recognition (locality)  Web service from AlgaeBase via WoRMS(currently recognized name, taxonomic authorities)  Crowdsourcing  Habitat, annotation notes and other details

How Are They Being Digitized?  Georeferencing  GEOlocate (from Symbiota portal)  Locality Information from Label  Field Notebooks

How are digitizers being trained?  Tutorials and Videos  Macroalgae.unh.edu  Vimeo  Virtual Meetings and Workshops  Adobe Connect  On-site training

How Is The Data Being Disseminated?  Macroalgae.org specimen data portal (Symbiota)

What Are The Broader Impacts of the Project?  Undergraduate and Graduate Student Participation  Digitization: Imaging, Transcription, Georeferencing  Research Opportunities  Internships at NY Botanical Garden and Field Museum  Under-represented groups in STEM  Exhibits and Programs  Field Museum (650,000 visitors)  Bishop Museum (450,000 visitors)

Photographs by Robert Lücking