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NC State University Insect Museum: Safeguarding and developing a community resource

北卡罗来纳州立大学昆虫博物馆：保护和开发社区资源

基本信息

批准号：
0847924
负责人：
Andrew Deans
金额：
$ 25.31万
依托单位：
North Carolina 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 2012-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847924&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
NC State University Insect Museum

项目摘要

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The North Carolina State University Insect Museum houses the largest insect collection in North Carolina (1.4 million specimens) and serves as a critical resource for research on the insects of the southern USA. This project involves: 1) relieving crippling space shortages by integrating new, high quality storage units, which also mitigate potentially harmful chemical preservation; 2) capturing and availing specimen images and metadata through the Web to any interested party; 3) educating citizen entomologists through public displays and a refined Web portal, including blogs and data access; details available at http://insectmuseum.org/NCSU's specimens and associated data are scientific cornerstones for biologists focusing on pests, agriculture, environmental health, bio-security, the decline (e.g., due to climate change) or range expansion (e.g., new invasions of pests) of key insect species and for monitoring environmental change associated with the increasing urbanization of an ecologically diverse region. The new equipment, infrastructure, databasing, training, and research facilitated by this grant will transform the NCSU Insect Museum from a specialized, remote resource into a regional focal point for biodiversity research and conservation, public education and outreach, broad-based graduate student training, and dissemination of natural history information. Three students will be trained in insect taxonomy and curation practices.

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。北卡罗莱纳州立大学昆虫博物馆拥有北卡罗莱纳州最大的昆虫收藏（140万标本），是研究美国南部昆虫的重要资源。该项目涉及：1)通过整合新的、高质量的存储单元来缓解严重的空间短缺，这也减少了潜在有害的化学保存；2)捕获标本图像和元数据，并通过网络提供给任何感兴趣的人；3)通过公开展示和完善的门户网站（包括博客和数据访问）教育公民昆虫学家；标本和相关数据是生物学家关注害虫、农业、环境卫生、生物安全、主要昆虫物种的减少（例如，由于气候变化）或范围扩大（例如，害虫的新入侵）以及监测与生态多样性地区日益城市化相关的环境变化的科学基础。新设备、基础设施、数据库、培训和研究将使NCSU昆虫博物馆从一个专业的远程资源转变为生物多样性研究和保护、公共教育和推广、广泛的研究生培训和自然历史信息传播的区域中心。三名学生将接受昆虫分类和策展实践方面的培训。