RAPID: Transferring the Southern Illinois University Fluid Vertebrate Collections to the Illinois Natural History Survey

RAPID：将南伊利诺伊大学流体脊椎动物收藏转移至伊利诺伊州自然历史调查

• 批准号: 1529366
• 负责人: Christopher Taylor
• 金额: $ 14.19万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 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: 2015-05-15 至 2016-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1529366&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Transferring; Southern; Illinois; University

Natural history collections are irreplaceable libraries of biological information and specimen-based data is used for basic and applied research in a multitude of fields. These fields include, but are not limited to conservation biology, systematics, and biogeography. When natural history collections are neglected or orphaned, vast amounts of biological information is lost or made unavailable to the scientific community. This Rapid Research Grant (RAPID) provides funding for the transfer of ownership and the physical transfer of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) fluid vertebrates collections to the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) in Champaign, Illinois. The project will assist in the long-term preservation of SIUC collections data. The SIUC fluid vertebrates collections contain over 80,000 lots and 700,000 specimens of fishes and over 6,000 reptile and amphibian specimens. Both collections contain holdings from across the United States and around the world. Information received from SIUC indicated that the collections were to be packed and moved to an off-campus location by untrained staff. The collections were to be stored indefinitely at that off-campus location and not curated or monitored. The RAPID team will work with a commercial moving company to pack and label the SIUC collections in appropriate phylogenetic order and transport them to the INHS.

自然历史馆藏是不可替代的生物信息库，基于标本的数据用于多个领域的基础和应用研究。 这些领域包括但不限于保护生物学、系统学和生物地理学。 当自然历史收藏被忽视或孤立时，大量的生物信息就会丢失或无法为科学界提供。 该快速研究补助金 (RAPID) 为南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校 (SIUC) 流体脊椎动物收藏的所有权转让和实物转让提供资金给位于伊利诺伊州尚佩恩的伊利诺伊州自然历史调查局 (INHS)。 该项目将协助长期保存 SIUC 馆藏数据。 SIUC 流体脊椎动物藏品包含超过 80,000 个批次和 700,000 个鱼类标本以及超过 6,000 个爬行动物和两栖动物标本。 两个藏品均包含来自美国和世界各地的藏品。 从 SIUC 收到的信息表明，这些藏品将由未经培训的工作人员打包并转移到校外地点。 这些藏品将无限期地存储在校外的地点，并且不会被管理或监控。 RAPID 团队将与一家商业搬家公司合作，按照适当的系统发育顺序对 SIUC 藏品进行包装和标记，并将其运输到 INHS。