National Science Foundation funds a major regional digitization network
The Southwest Collections or Arthropods Network
(SCAN) is a collaborative project to make arthropod collections
from ten southwestern institutions accessible online. It is led by
Neil Cobb from Northern Arizona University and
involves Frank Krell, Paula Cushing and Jeff Stephenson from DMNS.
The funding from the National Science Foundation will enable us to
purchase a high end photo equipment for digitizing small, pinned
specimens, and employ a databasing assistant for two years. The
project will bring collections data and photographs of soil-living
arthropods online and will help scientists and the public alike to
identify and find information about these ecologically important,
but lesser known animals.
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