Physical renovation and electronic expansion of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection at Michigan State University.

A.J. 的物理改造和电子扩展

• 批准号: 0844133
• 负责人: Anthony Cognato
• 金额: $ 18.76万
• 依托单位: Michigan State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0844133&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Physical; renovation; electronic; expansion; A.J.

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The insect and arthropod collections of the A.J. Cook Arthropod Research Collection (ARC) at Michigan State University (MSU) contains ~1.1 million pinned and labeled specimens and also, specimens in 114,000 vials and on 47,000 slides. Approximately a third of the specimens are from Michigan with many historically important specimens dating to the 1870's. There are extensive national and international holdings, including significant specimens of the butterflies and moths, wasps and beetles. The ARC provides data directly to visiting scientists, in form of specimen loans, and responds to data requests. ARC also supports many outreach and extension events on and off campus with insect displays, and staff knowledgeable in insect natural history. Hence, this collection is used by national and international research scientist, supports agricultural, forestry, ornamental plant industries within the state, and helps to educate the general public from children to adults.Curation to current standards and growth are limited by a lack of space and inadequate, out-of-date storage facilities. Sub-standard storage also threatens the conservation of this important resource. The goals of this proposal are: 1. Protect the entire pinned insect collection with at least one level of preservation via the installation of new cabinets and drawers.2. Transfer and curate the beetle and wasp specimens (~650,000) into new soft-bottom trays. 3. Verify the validity all species names (~35,000).4. Construct a data base of the species holdings and publicize it via several web-base portals. These efforts will preserve the entire collection, increase organization, database and electronically serve the species holdings to local, national, and international scientists and laypersons. Ultimately, the ARC will realize an increase of use and recognition. This project will help support a Ph.D. student in insect systematics and fund four undergraduate students to help with the modernization of the collection and curation of specimens. Increased student activity in the collection will help draw attention to career possibilities in insect sciences and could potentially increase enrollment in the Entomology Department. Progress of these renovations can be viewed at http://www.arc.ent.msu.edu/.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。密歇根州立大学（MSU） A.J.库克节肢动物研究收藏（ARC）的昆虫和节肢动物收藏包含约110万个固定和标记的标本，以及114,000个小瓶和47,000个载玻片上的标本。大约三分之一的标本来自密歇根州，其中许多具有重要历史意义的标本可追溯到19世纪70年代。这里有大量的国内和国际收藏，包括蝴蝶、飞蛾、黄蜂和甲虫的重要标本。ARC以标本出借的形式直接向访问科学家提供数据，并回应数据请求。ARC还支持校园内外的许多推广活动，包括昆虫展览，以及对昆虫自然史有深入了解的工作人员。因此，该收藏被国内和国际研究科学家使用，支持该州的农业，林业，观赏植物产业，并有助于从儿童到成人教育公众。目前标准的管理和增长受到空间缺乏和不充分，过时的存储设施的限制。不合标准的储存也威胁着这一重要资源的保护。本提案的目标是：1。通过安装新的橱柜和抽屉，保护整个被钉住的昆虫收藏，至少保存一个级别。将甲虫和黄蜂标本（约65万）转移到新的软底托盘中。3. 验证所有物种名称的有效性（~ 35000）。建立物种馆藏数据库，并通过多个门户网站进行公布。这些努力将保护整个收藏，增加组织，建立数据库，并以电子方式为当地，国家和国际科学家和外行提供物种收藏。最终，ARC将实现使用和认可的增加。该项目将资助一名昆虫系统学博士生，并资助四名本科生帮助实现标本收集和管理的现代化。增加学生的收藏活动将有助于引起人们对昆虫科学职业可能性的关注，并可能增加昆虫学系的入学人数。这些翻新的进展可以在http://www.arc.ent.msu.edu/上查看。