MPM Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT)

Julia Colby1, Alyssa Caywood1, Christopher Tyrrell1, Jennifer Zaspel1

1 Milwaukee Public Museum, 800 W Wells St, 53233, Milwaukee, United States

Corresponding author(s): Julia Colby (colby@mpm.edu)Alyssa CaywoodChristopher TyrrellJennifer Zaspel

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Abstract

The Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collection Network (TPT-TCN; NSF DBI-1901932) will digitize over one million arthropod specimens representing species that are significant parasites and disease vectors of vertebrates in the United States. This digitization effort will integrate millions of vertebrate host records with vector and disease monitoring data shared by state and federal agency collaborators, creating a novel foundation for integrative, long-term research. This project is a collaboration of taxonomists and curators from vertebrate and invertebrate collections, as well as epidemiologists, ecologists, data-scientists, and biodiversity informatics specialists. This reach is further extended by the 26 collaborating research collections and other initiatives. This project will empower ongoing citizen science and public awareness campaigns with the tools to understand distribution changes of arthropod vectors and associated diseases due to environmental change and global movement.

Keywords: Occurrence, Specimen

Project details

Project title: Terrestrial Parasite Tracker
Personnel: Jennifer Zaspel
Funding: National Science Foundation (U.S.A.)

Data published through GBIF: https://ipt.mpm.edu/resource?r=tpt

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: North America
Coordinates: 17°58'44.4''N and 83°31'12''N Latitude; 169°27'10.8''W and 52°44'2.4''W Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 1882 - 2019

Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: MPM
Collection name: Milwaukee Public Museum Non-Insect Invertebrate Collection
Collection identifier: INV
Natural collections description

Parent collection identifier: MPM
Collection name: Milwaukee Public Museum Insect Collection
Collection identifier: ENT

Methods

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Datasets

Dataset description
Object name: Darwin Core Archive MPM Terrestrial Parasite Tracker (TPT)
Character encoding: UTF-8
Format name: Darwin Core Archive format
Format version: 1.0
Distribution: https://ipt.mpm.edu/archive.do?r=tpt
Publication date of data: 2022-01-11
Language: English
Licences of use: Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2020-03-17
Hierarchy level: Dataset