Retrofitting of Specimen Storage Compactors in the Herbariumof the California Academy of Sciences

加州科学院的植物标本馆收藏了来自世界各地的150多万件植物标本。它是美国第六大植物标本馆，也是北美西部最大的标本馆。标本馆中储存的标本是世界植物的永久记录，是许多植物学信息和研究的基础。除了系统植物学家的大量使用外，该植物标本馆也是林农、农业代理人、海关官员、土地利用规划者和公共卫生当局的宝贵资源。该标本馆是鉴定有毒植物、记录潜在破坏性昆虫的寄主植物以及确定有害杂草的地理来源和栖息地要求等活动的起点。为了满足上述所有需求，标本馆需要有一个有效的系统来存储和检索已安装的标本。目前的项目将升级标本馆的紧凑存储元件，使标本馆工作人员和参观者更容易获得标本。

The herbarium of the California Academy of Sciences contains over 1.5 million mounted botanical specimens from around the world. It is the sixth largest herbarium in the United States and the largest in western North America. The specimens stored in the herbarium are a permanent, documented record of the plants of the world and are the basis for much botanical information and research. In addition to significant usage by systematic botanists, the herbarium is also an invaluable resource for foresters, agricultural agents, customs officials, land-use planners and public health authorities. The herbarium serves as a starting point for such activities as identification of poisonous plants, documentation of the host plants of potentially destructive insects, and establishment of the geographic sources and habitat requirements of noxious weeds. In order to serve all of the above demands, the herbarium needs to have an efficient system for storage and retrieval of the mounted specimens. The current project will upgrade the compact storage elements of the herbarium to make the specimens more readily accessible to both herbarium staff and visitors.