Curation of the Florida Museum of Natural History Paleobotanical Collection

佛罗里达自然历史博物馆收藏了超过10万件植物化石。这个集合最初是由PI， David Dilcher和他的学生和同事组织的。在田纳西州西部和肯塔基州的始新世植物区、印第安纳州的煤矿以及堪萨斯州和内布拉斯加州的白垩纪粘土中定期收集到的标本也增加了这一发现。主要的贡献来自于联合pi Steven Manchester对西部各州始新世和古新世植物化石的研究。除了它的集中领域，收集现在包括来自世界各地和美国许多地点的化石植物。这个收藏已经成为世界上一个重要的资源，经常被来自美国和其他国家的研究化石植物的人们访问。目前，没有收集管理器，收集也没有很好地组织。这个项目是一个为期三年的项目，为收集经理职位提供资金，并提供一些学生协助编目和组织标本。当这些收藏得到适当的管理时，它将成为科学界可访问和有用的国家资源。佛罗里达大学正在与美国国家科学基金会合作，通过在拨款到期后保持收藏经理的永久职位来支持这一收藏。

9631371 Dilcher A collection of over 100,000 fossil plants is housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. This collection was originally organized by the PI, David Dilcher, and his students and colleagues. It was added to by regular collections made from the Eocene plant-bearing areas in western Tennessee and Kentucky, the coal mines in Indiana and Cretaceous clays in Kansas and Nebraska. Major contributions were made by co-PI Steven Manchester for his research on the Eocene and Paleocene fossil plants from western states. In addition to its areas of concentration, the collection now includes fossil plants from all over the world and many sites in the USA. This collection has become a major resource in the world and is visited regularly by people studying fossil plants from USA and other countries. Currently, there is no collection manager, and the collection is not well organized. This project is a three year program to fund a Collection Manager position and provide some student assistance to catalogue and organize the specimens. When this collection is properly curated, it will be a national resource accessible and useful to the scientific community. The University of Florida is partnering with NSF to support this collection by maintaining the Collection Manager as a permanent position after the expiration of the grant.