Recuration and Geo-Referencing of the Herpetological Collection at Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection

德克萨斯合作野生动物收藏馆爬行动物收藏的再利用和地理参考

• 批准号: 0447141
• 负责人: Lee Fitzgerald
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Texas A&M AgriLife Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-06-01 至 2008-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0447141&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Recuration; Geo; Referencing; Herpetological; Collection

A grant has been awarded to the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station under the direction of Dr. Lee Fitzgerald for partial support of the geo-referencing of the herpetology division of the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collections (TCWC). The herpetology collection was established in 1938, contains one of the most extensive holdings of Latin American and Texas specimens to be found anywhere in the world, including specimens from locations where collection activities have since become difficult or, in some cases, impossible. In recent years the collection has been electronically cataloged for on-line use, been used increasingly for research, teaching, and public outreach, and been partially geo-referenced through active participation in the NSF sponsored HerpNET National Database Project. Biological collections are a foundation for advancing understanding of complex ecological changes over space and time. Given the critical need to address environmental and social problems related to biodiversity, ecological processes, and environmental change, it is important to preserve, expand, and improve existing natural history collections. The geo-referencing activities of this project will allow researchers from around the world to better utilize the collections of the TCWC. Improvements made now to the TCWC herpetology collection will support research on biodiversity and organismal biology; those research activities and the scientific questions they address will continue to benefit from collection improvements long after the life of this project.This collection supports research, teaching, and outreach. In addition, it serves to catalog biodiversity. Natural history collections are increasingly used by diverse user groups in almost every scientific discipline, medicine, and teaching. Improvements to the TCWC herpetology collection will continue those important functions, as well as provide valuable opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students to participate in the use and development of natural history collections, specifically herpetology collections.

在Lee Fitzgerald博士的指导下，德克萨斯州农业实验站获得了一笔赠款，用于部分支持德克萨斯州野生动物合作收集中心爬虫学部门的地理参考。 爬行动物学收藏馆成立于1938年，是世界上最广泛的拉丁美洲和德克萨斯州标本收藏之一，包括来自那些采集活动变得困难或在某些情况下不可能的地方的标本。近年来，收集已电子编目在线使用，越来越多地用于研究，教学和公共宣传，并通过积极参与NSF赞助的HerpNET国家数据库项目进行部分地理参考。生物标本是促进理解复杂生态随时间和空间变化的基础。鉴于迫切需要解决与生物多样性，生态过程和环境变化有关的环境和社会问题，重要的是要保护，扩大和改善现有的自然历史收藏。 该项目的地理参照活动将使世界各地的研究人员能够更好地利用《TCWC》的收藏。 TCWC爬行动物学藏品的改进将支持生物多样性和有机体生物学的研究;这些研究活动及其解决的科学问题将在本项目结束后很长一段时间内继续受益于藏品的改进。此外，它还有助于对生物多样性进行编目。自然历史收藏品越来越多地被不同的用户群体用于几乎每一个科学学科，医学和教学。TCWC爬虫学收藏的改进将继续这些重要功能，并为本科生和研究生提供宝贵的机会，参与自然历史收藏的使用和发展，特别是爬虫学收藏。