RAPID: Preparing the USM/GCRL Museum Invertebrate Holdings Data For Physical and Electronic Access by the Scientific Community in the Aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

RAPID：在深水地平线漏油事件发生后，准备 USM/GCRL 博物馆无脊椎动物保藏数据，供科学界进行物理和电子访问

• 批准号: 1055071
• 负责人: Richard Heard
• 金额: $ 19.02万
• 依托单位: University of Southern Mississippi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-15 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1055071&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Preparing; USM; GCRL; Museum

The University of Southern Mississippi Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) Museum houses a large collection of preserved marine invertebrates from the northern Gulf of Mexico. This collection is dominated by specimens collected from regions of the Gulf that are presently impacted or threatened by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. These collections represent reference material relevant to environmental impact studies that will be conducted in the aftermath of the spill. Many of the specimen lots in the museum represent historical collections (repeated collections made from the same location over a period of time) that will be useful for assessing oil spill impact. The goal of this project is to prepare the GCRL Museum invertebrate holdings from key areas of the northern Gulf of Mexico for access by the scientific community. This will entail cataloging data from collection lots, verifying identifications, entering the data into the museum database, and making that database searchable on the GCRL Museum web site. In addition, recent pre-impact samples from affected shoreline habitats will be processed and incorporated into the GCRL Museum collection. This work will take one year to complete, and be conducted by four senior scientists, two graduate students and two part time undergraduate workers. Upon completion, all data from the GCRL Museum invertebrate holdings pertaining to this project will be electronically accessible by the scientific community and all specimen lots will be available for loan to interested user groups.Archived invertebrate specimens and collections along with the ecological data pertaining to their acquisition are valuable resources that scientists need in order to study effects of oil on shoreline habitats of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Scientists, resource managers, and other interested parties will be able to search our holdings and learn which invertebrates occur in key areas that have since been exposed to oil. Equipped with baseline knowledge about species and communities that historically characterize an area, scientists can assess when or if a key shoreline habitat has recovered. Students participating in this project will learn museum curatorial techniques and be trained in taxonomy for proper identification of marine invertebrates. Further, the student participants will be encouraged to pursue projects relating to the study of biodiversity with emphasis on the acute and chronic effects that this environmental catastrophe may have had on the faunal integrity of affected shoreline habitats.

南密西西比大学墨西哥湾沿岸研究实验室 (GCRL) 博物馆收藏了大量来自墨西哥湾北部的保存完好的海洋无脊椎动物。该藏品主要是从目前受到深水地平线漏油影响或威胁的海湾地区采集的标本。这些收藏代表了与泄漏事件后将进行的环境影响研究相关的参考材料。博物馆中的许多标本都是历史收藏（在一段时间内从同一地点重复收藏的），可用于评估漏油影响。该项目的目标是准备 GCRL 博物馆来自墨西哥湾北部关键地区的无脊椎动物藏品，供科学界访问。这将需要对藏品中的数据进行编目、验证身份、将数据输入博物馆数据库，并使该数据库可在 GCRL 博物馆网站上搜索。此外，来自受影响海岸线栖息地的最新撞击前样本将被处理并纳入 GCRL 博物馆收藏。这项工作将耗时一年完成，由四名资深科学家、两名研究生和两名兼职本科生负责。完成后，科学界将可以通过电子方式访问 GCRL 博物馆无脊椎动物馆藏中与该项目相关的所有数据，并且所有标本批次都将可供感兴趣的用户团体出借。存档的无脊椎动物标本和藏品以及与其采集相关的生态数据是科学家研究石油对墨西哥湾北部海岸线栖息地的影响所需的宝贵资源。科学家、资源管理者和其他感兴趣的各方将能够搜索我们的资产并了解哪些无脊椎动物出现在自那时以来接触石油的关键区域。借助有关历史上表征某个地区的物种和群落的基线知识，科学家可以评估关键海岸线栖息地何时或是否已恢复。参与该项目的学生将学习博物馆策展技术，并接受分类学培训，以正确识别海洋无脊椎动物。此外，将鼓励学生参与者开展与生物多样性研究相关的项目，重点关注这场环境灾难可能对受影响的海岸线栖息地的动物完整性产生的急性和慢性影响。