DigIn is a collaboration of 22 institutions digitizing invertebrate specimens from 19 collections. It takes an network of dedicated faculty, staff, and volunteers to make this happen.

Digitizing institutions:

Regina Wetzer (lead PI) - Curator and Director, Marine Biodiversity Center
Trina Roberts (co-PI) - Associate Vice President for Collections
Elizabeth Ellwood (co-PI) - Research Fellow
Austin Hendy - Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology
​Kamal Hamdan - Director of the Center for Innovation in STEM Education
Charlene McCord - Assistant Professor
Kathryn Theiss - Assistant Professor​
Paul Callomon (PI) - Invertebrate Collections Manager
Gary Rosenberg - Invertebrate Curator
Estefanía Rodríguez (PI) - Curator of Marine Invertebrates
Christine Johnson (co-PI) - Curatorial Associate
Lily Berniker - Museum Specialist at AMNH
Jon Armbruster - Director and Curator of Fishes
Nusrat Noor - Collection Manager, Marine and Aquatic Invertebrates
Holly Bolick (PI) - Invertebrates
Ken Hayes (co-PI) - Invertebrates
Christina Piotrowski (PI) - Institute for Biodiversity Science & Sustainability, Invertebrate Zoology
Jennifer Dreyer (PI) - Invertebrates
Rüdiger Bieler - Curator
Jochen Gerber - Collections Manager
Petra Sierwald - Curator
Dennis Hanisak (PI) - Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museum
​Paul Larson (PI) - Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
James Hanken (PI) - Museum of Comparative Zoology
Adam Baldinger (co-PI) - Museum of Comparative Zoology
Megan McCuller (PI) - Collections Manager, Non-molluscan Invertebrates
Daniel Geiger (PI) - Invertebrates
Greg Rouse (PI) - Benthic Invertebrates Collection
Mark Ohman (co-PI) - Pelagic Invertebrates Collection
​Kevin Kocot (PI) - University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Museum of Natural History
Jingchun Li (PI) - Museum of Natural History, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
Leanne Elder - Museum of Natural History
Gustav Paulay (PI) - University of Florida, Museum of Natural History
Nikki Traylor-Knowles (PI) - Assistant Professor, Department of Marine Biology and Ecology, Marine Invertebrate Museum

Affiliates:

Arizona State University, Tempe
Edward Gilbert
Nico Franz - ​Biocollections Director
​Katie Pearson
Nicolas Bailly - Taxonomy Coordinator
Nelson Rios - Head of Biodiversity Informatics
William Moser, Collection Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Katie Ahlfeld, Deputy Collection Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology
Karen Reed, Museum Specialist/Data Manager, Department of Invertebrate Zoology

Unfunded collaborators:

Henry Choong, ​Curator of Invertebrate Zoology
Hugh Macintosh, Research Associate
Steve Keable, Collection Manager of Marine Invertebrates
Mary Wicksten, Professor of Biology & Curator of Marine Invertebrates
DigIn is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 2001601. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.