The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest: The Legacy of Melville Harrison Hatch

该项目的目标是将大量甲虫标本整合到俄勒冈州节肢动物收藏馆（OSAC）的馆藏中。该项目有三个目标。(1)将标本转移到新的防虫柜中，以保证标本的物理完整性。(2)标本编目所用的名称将会更新，以符合其他博物馆在世界范围内使用的标准命名系统（分类）。(3)提高标本对公众和研究人员的可及性。这些改进将使这些标本更容易在现场和通过互联网访问。甲虫是环境完整性和气候变化的敏感指标。由于这种生物指示作用，OSAC收集的100万凭证标本对研究人员来说是一种独特的资源，在未来将越来越重要。这一收藏尤其重要，因为它记录了过去90年来数千种物种的地理分布，因此为衡量当前和未来气候变化的影响提供了宝贵的基准。在收集改进实施后，收集将由各种专家（例如生态学家，进化生物学家）使用，并将由公众在线访问。

The goal of this project is to integrate a substantial collection of beetle specimens into the holdings of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC). The project has three aims. (1) The physical integrity of the specimens will be safeguarded by transferring them to new pest-proof cabinets. (2) The names used to catalog the specimens will be updated so that they comply with the standard naming system (taxonomy) used worldwide by other museums. (3) The accessibility of the specimens to the public and researchers will be improved. Those improvements will make the specimens more accessible onsite and via the internet.Beetles are sensitive indicators of environmental integrity and climate change.Because of this bioindicator role, the OSAC collection of one million voucher specimens is a unique resource for researchers that will be increasingly important in the future. This collection is especially important because it documents the geographic distribution of several thousand species over the last 90 years and so provides an invaluable benchmark for gauging the impact of ongoing and future climate change. After the collection improvements are implemented, the collection will be used by a variety of experts (e.g., ecologists, evolutionary biologists) and will be accessible online by the general public.