Renovation and Computerization of the Diatom Herbarium at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

费城自然科学院硅藻标本馆的改造和计算机化

• 批准号: 0840406
• 负责人: Marina Potapova
• 金额: $ 32.42万
• 依托单位: Academy of Natural Sciences Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0840406&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Renovation; Computerization; Diatom; Herbarium; Academy

An award has been made to the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia (ANSP) to renovate ANSP Diatom Herbarium and to provide on-line access to its resources. This Herbarium is the largest in North America and second largest in the World collection of diatoms, microscopic algae that play key role in biosphere?s carbon and silica cycles and are important environmental indicators. The Herbarium houses approximately 210,000 diatom slides, 30,000 samples, and 5000 types of diatom species. This project will make the Herbarium easily accessible to researchers worldwide: the updated Herbarium database and images of type specimens will be available on-line, data for 25,000 samples will be digitized, and several important collections will be incorporated into Herbarium. Approximately 5,000 samples will be re-housed in new cabinets.Better access to the resources of the ANSP Diatom Herbarium will support research in taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, and ecology of diatoms and increase public awareness of environmental change and biodiversity conservation. Curatorial assistants and students involved in this project will be trained in collection management and diatom taxonomy. Diatom Herbarium website will serve educational purposes and will be useful for biology students, teachers, and general public as an information source on diatoms and ecology of aquatic systems.

费城自然科学院（ANSP）获得了一项奖励，用于翻新ANSP硅藻标本馆，并提供对其资源的在线访问。这个植物标本馆是北美最大、世界第二大的硅藻收藏馆，硅藻是在生物圈中起关键作用的微小藻类。碳和二氧化硅循环是重要的环境指标。植物标本馆收藏了大约21万张硅藻幻灯片、3万份样品和5000种硅藻。该项目将使世界各地的研究人员更容易地访问植物标本室：更新的植物标本室数据库和模式标本图像将在网上提供，25,000个样本的数据将被数字化，一些重要的收藏品将被纳入植物标本室。大约5000个样品将被重新安置在新的橱柜中。更好地利用ANSP硅藻标本馆的资源将支持硅藻分类学、系统学、生物地理学和生态学的研究，并提高公众对环境变化和生物多样性保护的认识。参与该项目的馆长助理和学生将接受收集管理和硅藻分类方面的培训。硅藻植物标本馆网站将服务于教育目的，并将对生物学学生、教师和公众有用，作为硅藻和水生系统生态学的信息来源。