Care of the Systematic Collections of the Rancho Santa Ana Herbarium

该项目为Rancho Santa Ana植物园和Pomona学院植物标本馆（RSA-POM）藏品的维护和护理提供了部分支持。RSA-POM是世界范围内系统植物学研究的重要参考文献。增加的策展活动，包括从洛杉矶县博物馆转移的17万件标本，导致了越来越多的藏品的存储空间短缺。研究人员对馆藏的使用也有所增加，这对策展人员和技术人员的时间提出了更大的要求。国家科学基金会的资金将用于购买和安装142个新的和120个现有的植物标本室箱，并将其安装在一个可移动的压缩系统上。该系统位于植物标本馆的三楼，将比现有的橱柜安排增加46%的存储容量，足以容纳额外的123,000个标本。这将允许以目前每年25,000个标本的速度增长近五年。NSF的资金还将用于支持两名技术人员处理新藏品、出借、交换、员工收藏和其他策展活动。将特别强调处理积压集合和完成类型集合的分离。

This project provides partial support for maintenance and care of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden and Pomona College herbarium (RSA-POM) collections. RSA-POM, a National Resource Collection, is an important reference collection for systematic botany research worldwide. Increased curatorial activity, including the transfer of 170,000 specimens from the Los Angeles County Museum, has resulted in a shortage of storage space for the growing collections. Use of the collections by researchers has also increased, placing greater demands on the time of curatorial and technical staff. NSF funds will be used to purchase and install 142 new and 120 existing herbarium cases on a movable-carriage compactor system. Housed on the herbarium's third floor, the system will provide a 46% increase in storage capacity over the existing cabinet arrangement, enough space for an additional 123,000 specimens. This will allow for nearly five year's growth at the current rate of 25,000 specimens annually. NSF funds will also be used to support two technicians to process new accessions, loans, exchanges, staff collections, and other curatorial activities. Special emphasis will be given to processing backlog collections and completing segregation of the type collection.