CSBR: Natural History: Critical Upgrades, Expansion, and Reorganization of the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS)

CSBR：自然历史：威斯康星州立植物标本馆 (WIS) 的关键升级、扩建和重组

• 批准号: 1458293
• 负责人: Kenneth Cameron
• 金额: $ 35.5万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458293&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Critical; Upgrades

With a collection of more than 1.2 million preserved plant specimens, the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) at the UW-Madison ranks among the top 1% of the world's largest and most active herbaria. It is the third largest public university herbarium in the Americas, and is used extensively by a diverse clientele, including citizens engaged in ecological restoration, state biologists, researchers, professors, as well as students who are conducting independent research or enrolled in any of the nine different university courses that incorporate the herbarium's collection into teaching. Recently, WIS was listed as one of 14 herbaria in the world whose online specimen data has been consulted at least 20 times in studies documenting environmental change; it is a world class resource. As its holdings have grown, the herbarium reached its carrying capacity decades ago, and its facilities are now overcrowded, inadequate for maintaining curatorial standards of specimen storage, and unable to provide full public access. For example, the mechanized compactor holding 476 cabinets of flowering plants has failed and cannot be repaired. Critical upgrades will take place on both floors of the herbarium; its 30-year old motorized compactor system on the main floor will be modified into a new, more reliable manual system, and a new high-density mobile storage system and associated cabinets will be installed in the herbarium's newly acquired second floor. These improvements will allow for consolidation of collections scattered throughout the building, proper safekeeping and expansion, especially among its exceptional algae, fungi, lichens, and mosses. A reorganization of the entire herbarium collection will follow this expansion, including adoption of a contemporary phylogenetic system of plant classification, which is now taught in all formal university courses on campus. The acquisition of new real estate on the Madison campus coincides with the purchase of a collection of ca. 60,000 lichen specimens that complement existing holdings. In addition, WIS is involved in a number of current regional, national, and international collection digitization activities, and is the lead institution for two NSF-funded Thematic Collections Networks. All data resulting from this project will be posted online (http://herbarium.wisc.edu/databases.htm) and shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and educators. Finally, in order to highlight unparalleled natural history museum resources to senior citizens and pre-college teens, WIS will develop a two-day botany "major" during UW-Madison's summer Grandparent's University week. Additional information about WIS and its outreach activities is available at http://herbarium.wisc.edu/.

威斯康星州立植物标本馆 (WIS) 位于威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，收藏有超过 120 万份保存的植物标本，位列世界最大、最活跃的植物标本馆前 1% 之列。 它是美洲第三大公立大学植物标本馆，被不同的客户广泛使用，包括从事生态恢复的公民、国家生物学家、研究人员、教授以及进行独立研究或就读于任何大学的学生。九个不同的大学课程将植物标本馆的藏品纳入教学。 最近，WIS 被列为世界上 14 个植物标本馆之一，其在线标本数据在记录环境变化的研究中被查阅了至少 20 次；这是世界级的资源。 随着馆藏数量的增加，植物标本馆在几十年前就达到了承载能力，但其设施现在已经人满为患，不足以维持标本存储的馆藏标准，也无法向公众提供全面的访问。 例如，装有476柜花卉植物的机械化压实机发生故障，无法修复。 植物标本室的两层都将进行重要升级；主层已有30年历史的电动压实系统将被改造为新的、更可靠的手动系统，而新的高密度移动存储系统和相关橱柜将安装在植物标本馆新购置的二楼。 这些改进将有助于整合分散在整个建筑中的藏品，进行适当的保管和扩展，特别是其中特殊的藻类、真菌、地衣和苔藓。 此次扩建后，整个植物标本馆藏品将进行重组，包括采用当代植物分类系统发育系统，该系统现已在校园内的所有正式大学课程中教授。 在麦迪逊校园收购新房地产的同时，还购买了大约 10 件藏品。 60,000 个地衣标本补充了现有馆藏。 此外，WIS 还参与当前的许多地区、国家和国际馆藏数字化活动，并且是两个 NSF 资助的主题馆藏网络的牵头机构。 该项目产生的所有数据将在线发布 (http://herbarium.wisc.edu/databases.htm) 并与 iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) 共享，确保研究人员和教育工作者能够访问。最后，为了向老年人和大学前青少年展示无与伦比的自然历史博物馆资源，WIS 将在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校夏季祖父母大学周期间开设为期两天的植物学“专业”。有关 WIS 及其外展活动的更多信息，请访问 http://herbarium.wisc.edu/。