Critical improvement of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium: securing and enabling access to the world's largest collection of plants in the Rocky Mountain region

落基山植物标本馆的重大改进：确保并能够访问落基山地区世界上最大的植物收藏

• 批准号: 2234631
• 负责人: David Tank
• 金额: $ 90.86万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Critical; improvement; Rocky; Mountain; Herbarium

The Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) is among the largest public university herbaria in the United States. With over 1 million accessioned specimens, it contains the most comprehensive collection of Rocky Mountain plants in the world. The RM has outgrown its space and the bulk of these specimens are inaccessible to researchers. Rapid growth of the RM is the result of a large-scale inventory program focused on documenting the flora of the Rocky Mountains. This project will provide for greatly increased accessibility of RM specimens and associated data, that are used for research, teaching, and outreach. More than 200 herbarium cabinets will be added to secure over 420,000 specimens and allow for incorporation of the Central Wyoming College Herbarium. A key activity will be to image all mounted specimens that have not yet been imaged, resulting in a total 700,000 completely digitized specimens that will substantially increase accessibility of collections data from Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains that are widely used by the public and land management agencies. The project also includes a summer internship program, to train the next generation of herbarium scientists in both traditional and modern aspects of specimen curation and specimen-based research.The University of Wyoming Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) is in critical need of expansion to secure the large number of specimens that are currently inaccessible and at risk. In addition, the Central Wyoming College Herbarium (CWC), a regional collection of ca. 45,000 specimens shuttered since the retirement of its faculty curator, will be incorporated. Through the addition of the herbarium cabinets, the RM will secure specimens that are currently in cardboard boxes on the tops of existing cabinets and address a backlog of 250,000 specimens that are already mounted but inaccessible to researchers. Specimens will be imaged, including those in the CWC herbarium, to provide access to completely digitized specimen records or nearly 700,000 specimens from Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains. Data will be made available through the RM specimen portal, regional, national, and international data aggregators and consortia including iDigBio.org. In addition, this project will serve as a platform for a summer Rocky Mountain Herbarium Internship with the goal of providing a foundational knowledge of herbarium management, curation, and research through a directed, hands-on experience.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.

落基山植物标本馆 (RM) 是美国最大的公立大学植物标本馆之一。 它拥有超过 100 万个登记标本，包含世界上最全面的落基山植物收藏。 RM 已经超出了它的空间，研究人员无法接触到这些标本的大部分。 RM 的快速增长是专注于记录落基山脉植物群的大规模清查计划的结果。该项目将大大提高 RM 标本和相关数据的可访问性，用于研究、教学和推广。 将添加 200 多个植物标本室，以保存超过 420,000 件标本，并纳入中央怀俄明学院植物标本室。 一项关键活动将对所有尚未成像的标本进行成像，从而产生总共 700,000 个完全数字化的标本，这将大大提高公众和土地管理机构广泛使用的怀俄明州和落基山脉收集数据的可访问性。 该项目还包括一个暑期实习计划，以在标本管理和基于标本的研究的传统和现代方面培训下一代植物标本馆科学家。怀俄明大学落基山植物标本馆 (RM) 迫切需要扩建，以确保大量标本目前无法获取且处于危险之中。 此外，中央怀俄明学院植物标本馆 (CWC) 是一个地区性收藏的大约 100 种植物标本。自教员馆长退休以来关闭的 45,000 个标本将被纳入其中。通过增加植物标本室柜，RM 将把目前存放在现有柜子顶部的纸板箱中的标本固定下来，并解决积压的 250,000 个标本，这些标本已经安装好，但研究人员无法访问。 将对标本（包括 CWC 植物标本室中的标本）进行成像，以提供完全数字化的标本记录或来自怀俄明州和落基山脉的近 700,000 个标本。 数据将通过 RM 样本门户、区域、国家和国际数据聚合商和联盟（包括 iDigBio.org）提供。此外，该项目将作为夏季落基山植物标本馆实习的平台，旨在通过直接的实践经验提供植物标本馆管理、策展和研究的基础知识。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并具有通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。