CSBR: Natural History: Preserving and ensuring access to critical biological collections in an emerging museum at the University of Nevada, Reno

CSBR：自然历史：在内华达大学里诺分校的新兴博物馆中保存并确保可获取重要的生物藏品

• 批准号: 1458033
• 负责人: Elizabeth Leger
• 金额: $ 25.14万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2017-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Preserving; ensuring

The state of Nevada, located in the core of the Great Basin, contains a unique flora and fauna, but is also a region under threat by invasive species, water diversions, and other land-use practices. A host of taxa and entire communities are endangered and in decline. The Great Basin, which is high in fish endemism, has experienced 12 fish extinctions in the past 100 years, more than any other region in North America. Eight of these have occurred in Nevada, with seven extinctions endemic to Nevada alone. Almost a third of the remaining ichthyofauna is federally listed. Given the dramatic changes in the region, and those yet to come, museum collections play a significant role in supporting organismal science, providing baseline information about regional biodiversity and chronicling biotic change over decades. The fluid collections at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) are a pivotal resource, ranking among the most extensive holdings of Nevada material and containing irreplaceable specimens of extinct, extirpated, and endangered taxa. Through the opening of public exhibit space, the new Natural History Museum is playing a unique role in biodiversity education in Nevada. Undergraduates, graduates, and alumni are engaged in all aspects of the museum, including hosting K-12 visits and the creation of public displays and outreach content, developed with an eye towards meeting the state's soon-to-be-adopted Next Generation Science Standards. The UNR has recently consolidated the majority of its natural history collections, formerly housed in widely disparate, off-campus locations, into a single, newly-renovated space on-campus. This award supports integration of fluid collections into this resource, making ca. 28,100 herpetological and fish specimens (including extinct and endangered taxa) accessible for researchers and managers. In addition to moving material to a central, on-campus location, specimens will be transferred to new, more appropriate containers, fully catalogued, digitized, and georeferenced for publication through online database portals. Securing, preserving, and ensuring access to these collections will allow research and management communities the ability to reconstruct the evolutionary and ecological history of the Great Basin. Impacts of this project include both scientific and societal benefits, including expansion of an already successful K-12 outreach program, and establishment of a consolidated web presence for both fluid collections and natural history museum. All data resulting from this project will be posted online (http://arctos.database.museum) and shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and educators.

内华达州位于大盆地的核心，拥有独特的动植物群，但也是一个受到入侵物种、引水和其他土地利用方式威胁的地区。许多类群和整个群落都濒临灭绝并正在衰退。大盆地的鱼类特有性很高，在过去 100 年里经历了 12 次鱼类灭绝，比北美任何其他地区都多。其中八次发生在内华达州，其中七次灭绝仅内华达州特有。剩余的鱼类动物群中几乎有三分之一被联邦列入名单。鉴于该地区以及即将发生的巨大变化，博物馆藏品在支持有机科学、提供有关区域生物多样性的基线信息和记录数十年来的生物变化方面发挥着重要作用。 内华达大学里诺分校 (UNR) 的液体收藏是一项关键资源，位居内华达州材料收藏最广泛的行列，其中包含已灭绝、绝迹和濒危类群的不可替代标本。通过开放公共展览空间，新的自然历史博物馆在内华达州的生物多样性教育中发挥着独特的作用。本科生、毕业生和校友参与了博物馆的各个方面，包括举办 K-12 参观以及公共展示和外展内容的创作，这些内容的开发都是为了满足该州即将采用的下一代科学标准。 UNR 最近将其大部分自然历史藏品（以前存放在校园外分散的地点）整合为一个新装修的校园内空间。 该奖项支持将流体收藏整合到该资源中，使大约。研究人员和管理人员可以获取 28,100 个爬虫类和鱼类标本（包括灭绝和濒临灭绝的类群）。除了将材料转移到校园内的中心位置外，标本还将被转移到新的、更合适的容器中，并进行全面编目、数字化和地理参考，以便通过在线数据库门户发布。保护、保存和确保对这些藏品的访问将使研究和管理团体能够重建大盆地的进化和生态历史。该项目的影响包括科学和社会效益，包括扩大已经成功的 K-12 外展计划，以及为液体收藏和自然历史博物馆建立统一的网络存在。该项目产生的所有数据都将发布在网上 (http://arctos.database.museum) 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。