Facilities Support for the University of Colorado Herbarium

科罗拉多大学博物馆植物标本室包含435,000个编目标本。它是科罗拉多州植物标本和信息的主要国家储存库，在维管植物、地衣、苔藓植物、真菌和藻类之间保持平衡。虽然它的重点集中在科罗拉多的植物区系，但落基山脉地区植物地理学的地理历史性质要求它在其他地区，特别是中亚的阿尔泰、高加索、北极美洲和堪察加半岛，拓展和发展卓越。馆长的野外工作使该植物标本馆成为地衣和苔藓植物的主要国际储藏库，包括加拉帕戈斯群岛、澳大利亚和新几内亚的植物。该植物标本室被美国植物分类学家协会的一个委员会列为国家资源植物标本室。该项目提供资金，用机械辅助的移动通道压实机系统取代植物标本馆的静态通道布置。压实机是需要的，因为几乎填满的情况下和存储区域。在过去的四十年里，植物标本室以平均每年10,000个新标本的速度从最初的30,000个标本发展壮大。

The University of Colorado Museum Herbarium contains 435,000 catalogued specimens. It is the principal state repository of botanical specimens and information for Colorado, with representation balanced between vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes, fungi and algae. While its emphasis centers on the Colorado flora, the geohistorical nature of the phytogeography of the Rocky Mountain area has required it to reach out and develop excellence in other areas, particularly the Altai of Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Arctic America and Kamtchatka. The curator's field work has made the herbarium a leading international repository for lichens and bryophytes, including those of the Galapagos Islands, Australia and New Guinea. The herbarium is listed as a National Resource Herbarium by a committee of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. This project provides funds to replace the static-aisle arrangement of the herbarium with a mechanically-assisted, mobile-aisle compactor system. Compactors are needed because of nearly filled cases and storage area. Over the past forty years, the herbarium has grown from the original 30,000 specimens at an average rate of 10,000 new specimens per year.