Renovation and Computerization of the Diatom Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

费城自然科学院硅藻标本馆的改造和计算机化

• 批准号: 0840406
• 负责人: Marina Potapova
• 金额: $ 32.42万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0840406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Computerization; Diatom; Herbarium; Academy

An award has been made to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) to renovate ANSP Diatom Herbarium and to provide on-line access to its resources. This Herbarium is the largest in North America and second largest in the World collection of diatoms, microscopic algae that play key role in biosphere?s carbon and silica cycles and are important environmental indicators. The Herbarium houses approximately 210,000 diatom slides, 30,000 samples, and 5000 types of diatom species. This project will make the Herbarium easily accessible to researchers worldwide: the updated Herbarium database and images of type specimens will be available on-line, data for 25,000 samples will be digitized, and several important collections will be incorporated into Herbarium. Approximately 5,000 samples will be re-housed in new cabinets.Better access to the resources of the ANSP Diatom Herbarium will support research in taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and ecology of diatoms and increase public awareness of environmental change and biodiversity conservation. Curatorial assistants and students involved in this project will be trained in collection management and diatom taxonomy. Diatom Herbarium website will serve educational purposes and will be useful for biology students, teachers, and general public as an information source on diatoms and ecology of aquatic systems.

费城自然科学学院（ANSP）颁发了奖励，以翻新ANSP硅藻植物标本室并在线访问其资源。这个植物标本室是北美最大的，是世界第二大硅藻，微观藻类，在生物圈的碳和二氧化硅周期中起关键作用，并且是重要的环境指标。植物标本室拥有约21万个硅藻幻灯片，30,000个样品和5000种硅藻种。该项目将使全球研究人员轻松访问植物标本室：更新的植物标本室数据库和类型标本的图像将在线提供，将数字化25,000个样品的数据，并将几个重要的收藏集中在草药室中。大约有5,000个样品将在新机柜中重新融合。贝特（Better）访问ANSP硅藻的资源将支持分类学，系统学，生物地理学和硅藻的生态学研究，并提高公众对环境变化和生物多样性保护的认识。参与该项目的策展助理和学生将接受收集管理和硅藻分类法的培训。硅植物标本室网站将提供教育目的，对于生物学学生，教师和公众，作为水生系统硅藻和生态学的信息来源。