Calbug is an effort to digitize terrestrial arthropod specimen records from California and use these to examine impacts of climate change and habitat modification.
The project is a collaboration between 8 entomological collections in California to digitize specimens and thus allow assessment of how their distributions have been modified through environmental change. It makes use of a long history of entomological collecting in the state to develop a database of approx. 1 million georeferenced specimens collected at focal localities over the last century.
PIs: Rosemary Gillespie, Jerry Powell, Vincent Resh, George Roderick, Kip Will
Charles Griswold, Norman Penny
