Curatorial Support for the Field Museum Herbarium

对菲尔德博物馆植物标本馆的策展支持

• 批准号: 9021960
• 负责人: John Engel
• 金额: $ 52.8万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1995-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9021960&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curatorial; Support; Field; Museum; Herbarium

The Herbarium of the Field Museum of Natural History contains 2.5 million mounted specimens with concentrated coverage of Central and South American areas, and is the fifth largest repository of plant specimens in the western hemisphere. The Herbarium is actively expanding its holdings through the research and survey activities of its Curators, through exchanges with other herbariums, and through donations of private collections. Botanists from around the world rely on access to the specimens in the Herbarium which are made available to visiting investigators and through loans. The Museum has initiated an ambitious plan to construct new collection storage areas for the Herbarium, and this will relieve crowding in the collection, allow currently inaccessible specimens to be processed and made available, and provide room for many years of collection growth. Dr. John Engel, Chairman of the Museum's Botany Department, has devised a three-year plan to make all backlogged specimens available, and to implement the first phase of transition to the newly constructed collection area. Collections of natural history specimens such as the Field Museum's Herbarium are critical resources for the study of biological diversity on Earth. Continued growth and improvement of these resources is essential for current investigations into ecology, evolution, global change (among other areas of inquiry), and for future generations of researchers.

菲尔德自然历史博物馆植物标本馆 包含250万个标本， 中美洲和南美洲地区，是第五大 西半球的植物标本库。 的 植物标本馆正积极通过研究扩大其馆藏 和调查其策展人的活动，通过交流与 其他标本馆，并通过私人收藏的捐赠。 来自世界各地的植物学家依靠对标本的获取 在植物标本室， 调查员和通过贷款。 博物馆发起了一项 雄心勃勃的计划，建设新的收集储存区， 植物标本馆，这将缓解拥挤的收藏， 允许目前无法获取的标本进行处理和制作 提供，并为多年的收藏增长提供空间。 博物馆植物学系主任约翰·恩格尔博士 设计了一个三年计划， 第一阶段的过渡， 新建的收藏区。 自然历史标本的收集，如田野 博物馆的植物标本室是研究 地球上的生物多样性。 持续增长和改善 这些资源对于目前的调查至关重要， 生态学、进化、全球变化（以及其他领域） 研究，以及未来的研究人员。