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Help us use over a century's worth of specimens to map the distribution of animals, plants, and fungi. Your data will let us know where species have been and predict where they may end up in the future!
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About Mapping Change
Imagine a searchable, public atlas showing where animals, plants, and fungi have been found and collected. This map focuses on the meeting place of three of the world’s largest terrestrial ecosystems: eastern broadleaf forests, tallgrass prairies, and coniferous forests. This map also represents moments in history before key changes occurred to the landscape, environment, and climate. What’s most exciting, scientists will use the data in this atlas to forecast where ecosystems and their associated species may be found in the future.
Your help is needed to build this atlas! Transcribe data from hand-written museum specimen labels to map biodiversity in the Midwestern US, where we sit on the cutting edge of climate change. The data you transcribe will become part of the Minnesota Biodiversity Atlas, the permanent digital record of the Bell Museum of Natural History's collections.
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