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/.

威斯康星州甲级植物标本室（WIS）的收藏量超过120万，位于威斯康星大学 - 麦迪逊山区的植物标本室（WIS）占世界上最大，最活跃的草药的前1％。 它是美洲的第三大公立大学植物标志，并被多元化的客户广泛使用，包括从事生态恢复的公民，国家生物学家，研究人员，教授，以及从事独立研究或从事独立研究或参加任何九个不同大学课程中的任何一个，将赫巴里姆集合纳入教学。 最近，WIS被列为世界上14种草药中的一种，其在线标本数据已在记录环境变化的研究中至少被咨询了20次。这是世界一流的资源。 随着其持股的发展，植物标本室几十年前就达到了其承载能力，现在其设施人满为患，不足以维持标本存储的策划标准，并且无法提供完整的公共通道。 例如，持有476个开花植物橱柜的机械化压实物失败了，无法修复。 标本室的两层楼将进行关键升级；它在主层的30年历史的压实系统将被修改为新的，更可靠的手动系统，新的高密度移动存储系统和相关橱柜将安装在植物标本室的新近购买的二楼。 这些改进将允许整合散布在整个建筑物中的收集，适当的保管和扩展，尤其是在其特殊的藻类，真菌，地衣和苔藓中。 整个植物标本室系列的重组将在这一扩展之后进行，包括采用当代植物分类系统的系统发育系统，该系统现已在校园的所有正规大学课程中进行教授。 在麦迪逊校园收购新房地产的收购恰逢购买CA的收藏。 60,000个地衣标本补充了现有持有量。 此外，WIS参与了许多当前的区域，国家和国际收集数字化活动，并且是两个NSF资助的主题收藏网络的主要机构。 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://wwwww.idigbio.org/）共享，以确保对研究人员和教育工作者的访问。最后，为了向老年人和预科青少年强调无与伦比的自然历史博物馆资源，WIS将在UW-Madison的夏季祖父母大学周期间开发为期两天的植物学“ Major”。有关WIS及其外展活动的其他信息，请访问http://herbarium.wisc.edu/。