CSBR: Natural History Collections: Curation and Re-housing of the Entomology Collection of the Sam Noble Museum.

俄克拉荷马大学获得了一个奖项，以支持山姆·诺布尔博物馆近期无脊椎动物收藏。这个科学资源记录了俄克拉何马州及其他地区的生物多样性，是俄克拉何马州最大的无脊椎动物收藏之一。该合同将支持移动存储（压实机）系统的安装，并提供新的昆虫学箱。该项目改善了基础设施，以充分有效地利用现有空间并增加潜在的收集能力。为研究人员和学生加强了收集安全性和对标本的物理访问。该项目将与博物馆现有的探索项目相结合，让K-12年级的学生参与研究，并鼓励俄克拉荷马州最大的未被充分代表的群体印第安人的参与。这个项目是一个长期收藏振兴计划的下一个阶段，该计划旨在重新安置和重新整理萨姆诺布尔博物馆（Sam Noble Museum）约40万件固定的昆虫标本，这是俄克拉荷马州唯一活跃的昆虫学收藏。该收藏包括最大和最全面的水生甲虫超科Byrrhoidea的收藏之一。该收藏还包括来自早期和最近的调查、清单、流行病学研究和媒介生态学的约16万种双翅目昆虫。该收藏包括2796种已编目和数字化的初级和次级昆虫，以及具有历史意义的蜻蜓、蝴蝶和其他甲虫类群。随着新的压缩系统和新柜的安装，收集的重组将完成，并将纳入有关昆虫系统发育关系的最新知识。在一个自然栖息地已经并将继续被农业、森林砍伐、放牧和其他土地利用变化所取代的州，这些标本提供了建立州前后几十年（1907年；俄克拉荷马州被指定为印第安领土，直到1889年开始大规模的土地运行）昆虫多样性的宝贵记录。目前，这是俄克拉何马州唯一的数字化和易于访问的昆虫学收藏。该项目产生的所有数据将与iDigBio （https://www.idigbio.org/）共享，以确保研究人员和公众可以访问。

An award is made to the University of Oklahoma to support the Sam Noble Museum Recent Invertebrates Collection. This scientific resource documents biodiversity in the state of Oklahoma and beyond, and is one of the largest collections of invertebrates from Oklahoma. This award will support the installation of a mobile storage (compactor) system and provide new entomology cabinets. The project improves infrastructure to adequately and efficiently utilize existing space and increase the potential collection capacity. Collection security and physical access to the specimens is enhanced for researchers and students. The project will integrate with the existing ExplorOlogy Program at the Museum to engage K-12 students in research and encourage the participation of Native Americans, the largest underrepresented group in Oklahoma.This project is the next phase in a long-term collection revitalization plan for rehousing and re-curating the ca. 400,000 pinned insect specimens at the Sam Noble Museum, the only active entomological collection in Oklahoma. The collection includes one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Byrrhoidea, an aquatic beetle superfamily. The collection also contains ca. 160,000 Diptera from early and recent surveys, inventories, epidemiology studies, and vector ecology. The collection contains 2,796 primary and secondary insect types that have been cataloged and digitized, as well as historically important collections of dragonflies, butterflies and other beetle groups. Along with the installation of a new compactor system and new cabinets, a reorganization of the collection will be completed, and will incorporate recent knowledge on phylogenetic relationships of insects. In a state where natural habitats have been and continue to be replaced by agriculture, deforestation, grazing, and other land use change, these specimens provide an invaluable record of entomological diversity in the decades before and after statehood (in 1907; Oklahoma was designated as Indian Territory until the major land runs began in 1889). Currently this is the only digitized and readily accessible entomology collection in Oklahoma. All data resulting from this project will be shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and the public.