This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the Biodiversity Outreach Network's IDIGBEES Network initiative. Under the Biological Sciences CFDA 47.074 program, the awardee will digitize over 350,000 bee specimen records and 6,600 images from natural history collections. This comprehensive digitization effort aims to map bee species distributions, identify data gaps, document climate impacts on bees, and establish networks to utilize findings for research, education, conservation, and land management. The awardee will also develop an open education platform called SMARTBEES with culturally diverse learning modules on bee biology and pollinator ecology for high school and undergraduate students. By making specimen data openly available, this NSF-funded project seeks to advance scientific understanding of bee biodiversity declines and inform strategies to address the pollinator crisis through 2026.
Mod # | Description | Reason For Modification | Federal Obligation (Click to sort descending) | Date (Click to sort ascending) |
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| Not listed | $300.0k | 12/22/22 |