RAPID: Securing the LUMCON natural history collection, a vital Gulf Coast resource

RAPID：保护 LUMCON 自然历史收藏，这是墨西哥湾沿岸的重要资源

• 批准号: 2203268
• 负责人: Brian Roberts
• 金额: $ 19.91万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium
• 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: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2203268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Securing; LUMCON; natural; history

The Gulf of Mexico supports a wide array of habitats, from wetlands to reefs that maintain high levels of biodiversity, estimated at over 15,000 species; with up to 20% unknown to science. The lack of biodiversity knowledge is significant in the context of this region with frequent hurricanes and human influences, like oil spills, that can impact and often interrupt valuable ecosystem services, including fisheries. Since its founding in 1980, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) has built a marine biodiversity collection over well over 15,000 specimens representing over 500 species. This valuable research and education resource is of value for assessing impacts to the Gulf of Mexico including coastal loss, hurricanes, and oil spills. It represents a substantial set of marine and coastal collections, especially for invertebrates, for the Louisiana coast. The Louisiana portion of the Gulf coast is unique. It is affected by the Mississippi River outflow, extensive wetland systems, the Dead Zone, and human influences due to the higher concentrations of oil and gas refineries and wells. It is also a region affected by severe storms, including hurricanes. And due to building damage during Hurricane Ida, the collections at LUMCON are at risk. This proposal seeks to secure LUMCON’s natural history collections for future research and education. Specifically, the project will secure curatorial staff to aid in conservatory efforts, relocate and secure LUMCON’s natural history collections in a new location, and assess the condition of the current collection and develop and implement a cataloging system to facilitate and inform the strategy for growing the collection. In addition, the project will create a paid minority summer internship program based on collections research. The student will train on collections-based research and learn museum collections methods.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.

墨西哥湾支持各种栖息地，从湿地到维持高水平生物多样性的礁石，估计有15,000多种；科学最多未知20％。在该地区的背景下，缺乏生物多样性知识很重要，飓风和人类影响（例如漏油事件）可能会影响并经常中断包括渔业在内的有价值的生态系统服务。自1980年成立以来，路易斯安那大学海洋联盟（Lumcon）已建立了一个海洋生物多样性收藏，比代表500多种物种的15,000多种物种。这种价值研究和教育资源对于评估对墨西哥湾的影响（包括沿海损失，飓风和漏油事件）具有价值。它代表了一套大量的海洋和沿海收藏品，尤其是对于路易斯安那州海岸的无脊椎动物。墨西哥湾沿岸的路易斯安那州部分是独一无二的。它受密西西比河出口，广泛的湿地系统，死区和人类影响的影响，因为石油和天然气炼油厂和井中较高。它也是受飓风在内的严重风暴影响的地区。由于IDA飓风期间建造损失，Lumcon的收藏处有风险。该提案旨在确保Lumcon的自然历史收藏，以进行未来的研究和教育。具体来说，该项目将确保策展人员在新地点进行策划，搬迁和确保Lumcon的自然历史收藏，并评估当前收集和开发的状况，并实施编目系统，以促进并告知该策略以增长该收藏的策略。此外，该项目将根据收藏研究创建一个有偿少数民族暑期实习计划。该学生将培训基于收藏的研究和学习博物馆收藏方法。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准来评估，被认为是珍贵的支持。