CSBR: Natural History Collections: Housing, Databasing, Digitizing and Accessibility Upgrades to the Largest Pacific Island Land Snail Collection (Bishop Museum)

CSBR：自然历史收藏：最大的太平洋岛屿陆地蜗牛收藏的住房、数据库、数字化和可访问性升级（毕夏普博物馆）

• 批准号: 1561774
• 负责人: Norine Yeung
• 金额: $ 49.56万
• 依托单位: Bernice P Bishop Museum
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561774&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Collections; Housing

Islands comprise only five percent of the Earth's landmass, yet nowhere in the world, in relation to land area, does land snail diversity compare to that of the Pacific Islands, where more than 6,000 species occur. However, habitat destruction, environmental change and incursions by invasive species threaten populations of native land snails. Snails have the highest recorded extinction rate of any major animal group, and the majority of extinctions are from Pacific Islands. The largest Pacific Island land snail collection in the world is at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (BPBM), which houses six million specimens. Natural history collections are critical to maintain research knowledge and to making decisions about biodiversity conservation. To secure this collection and improve accessibility to critical data for researchers, natural resource managers, students, and the public, this project will rehouse land snail specimens in environmentally stable and protective containers, image all original specimens from which species descriptions are based, and digitize all collection data so as to make these data readily available. The project team will recruit and train college and high school students to assist with this work and students will receive training in topics ranging from systematics to curation and museum conservation. Researchers and students will participate in outreach activities to increase public awareness of invertebrates, including land snails, their importance to natural ecosystems, and for monitoring environmental change, human migration and trade; and in the value of natural history collections to conserving and securing biodiversity.The security and accessibility of the largest and most biogeographically diverse Pacific Island land snail collection in the world will be ensured by completing the objectives of the project. Specifically, to safeguard against Byne's and glass disease, all cotton will be removed from the approximately 116,900 glass vials and replaced with polyethylene caps or archival foam. Approximately 5,000 lots with shells housed freely in no-lid boxes will be transferred to polystyrene friction boxes to secure them and prevent disassociation from labels. All labels are currently handwritten and these will be replaced by thermal transfer, acid-free labels with QR codes. Data from the ledger, labels, and other historical documents will be digitized, digitally curated, and images of Pacific island land snail primary types will be made available online and in type catalog publications. Specimen data and images will be made available through portals including iDigBio (idigbio.org), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and the BPBM website (bishopmuseum.org/PILS).

与土地区域相比，岛屿仅占地球的5％，但在世界上无处可寻，与发生6,000多种物种的太平洋岛屿相比，蜗牛的多样性确实存在。但是，栖息地破坏，环境变化和入侵物种的入侵威胁着本地蜗牛的种群。蜗牛在任何主要动物群体中的灭绝率最高，大多数灭绝是来自太平洋岛屿。世界上最大的太平洋岛屿蜗牛收藏品是位于容纳600万个标本的Bernice Pauahi Bishop博物馆（BPBM）。自然历史收集对于维持研究知识和对生物多样性保护的决策至关重要。为了确保此收集并改善研究人员，自然资源经理，学生和公众对关键数据的可访问性，该项目将重新设在环境稳定和保护性容器中的蜗牛标本，图像所有原始标本所基于的所有原始标本，并对所有收集数据进行数字数字化以使这些数据易于可用。项目团队将招募和培训大学和高中生，以协助这项工作，学生将接受从系统到策展和博物馆保护的主题培训。研究人员和学生将参加外展活动，以提高公众对无脊椎动物的认识，包括蜗牛，对自然生态系统的重要性以及监测环境变化，人类移民和贸易；以及自然历史收藏品以保护和保护生物多样性的价值。将通过完成该项目的目标来确保世界上最大，最多的太平洋岛蜗牛收集的安全性和可及性。具体而言，为了保护拜恩和玻璃疾病，将从约116,900个玻璃小瓶中取出所有棉花，并用聚乙烯盖或档案泡沫代替。大约5,000块将在无箱子盒中自由容纳的贝壳将被转移到聚苯乙烯摩擦箱中，以固定它们并防止与标签脱离关联。当前所有标签都是手写的，这些标签将被带有QR码的无酸标签所取代。分类账，标签和其他历史文档的数据将进行数字化，数字策划，并且将在线和类型的目录出版物中提供太平洋岛蜗牛主要类型的图像。标本数据和图像将通过包括IDIGBIO（IDIGBIO.org），全球生物多样性信息设施和BPBM网站（Bishopmuseum.org/pils）等门户提供。