Modernization of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection

俄勒冈州节肢动物收藏的现代化

• 批准号: 2151296
• 负责人: David Maddison
• 金额: $ 49.56万
• 依托单位: Oregon State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2151296&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Modernization; Oregon; State; Arthropod; Collection; Modernization; Oregon; State; Arthropod; Collection

The Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC) at Oregon State University is the largest insect collection in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), and houses about three million specimens. These specimens serve as the basis for insect diversity research in the PNW and additionally provide valuable information and reference material for regional stakeholders in forestry, agriculture, and conservation. This project installs a compactor system and new cabinets for the OSAC, taking advantage of a full building remodel, and completing OSAC’s transition into a modern, secure repository that will enable fifty years of research, growth, and active engagement with diverse communities. This project will also rehouse and improve several portions of the collection, thereby removing substantial infrastructural constraints impeding curation and research. Students, including those in groups underrepresented in STEM, will participate in this reinvigoration of the OSAC through these curatorial projects and through assisting in the creation of public displays about the collection and its specimens.The project will install nineteen movable carriages, allowing OSAC to be housed in our newly renovated repository room. Curatorial projects will focus on ground beetles, brush-footed butterflies, true bugs, and true flies, and will result in their being rehoused in new cabinets, drawers, and unit trays. The entire collection will be deep-frozen as part of the project, and a new specimen-handling workflow developed, eradicating pest challenges that have historically plagued the collection. A series of community museum events, student curatorial projects, and an undergraduate course, will engage students and the public with the collection in an innovative story-telling approach whereby participants are encouraged to explore and be inspired by the multifaceted information associated with museum specimens.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

俄勒冈州立大学的俄勒冈州节肢动物收集（OSAC）是西北太平洋（PNW）最大的绝缘收藏品，房屋约为300万个标本。这些标本是PNW中绝缘多样性研究的基础，并为林业，农业和保护方面的区域利益相关者提供有价值的信息和参考材料。该项目为OSAC安装了一个紧凑型系统和新机柜，利用完整的建筑物改建，并完成OSAC的过渡到现代安全的存储库，该库将使五十年的研究，成长和与大型社区的积极互动。该项目还将重新设置并改善集合的几个部分，从而消除了妨碍策划和研究的实质基础设施限制。包括在STEM中人数不足的人在内的学生将通过这些策展项目参与OSAC的这种重新振奋，并通过协助建立有关该收藏品及其标本的公众展示。该项目将安装19个可移动载体，允许OSAC在我们新近翻新的重新存储室中安装。策展项目将集中在地面甲虫，刷蝴蝶，真虫和真果蝇上，并将在新的橱柜，抽屉和单元托盘中重新安装。作为项目的一部分，整个系列将变得深陷，并开发了一个新的标本处理工作流程，消除了历史上困扰着该系列的害虫挑战。一系列社区博物馆活动，学生策展项目和本科课程将与学生和公众与该收藏进行吸引，以创新的讲故事方法，鼓励参与者探索和受到博物馆标本相关的多方面信息的启发。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，反映了通过评估的构成师的构成师的构成师的范围。