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

俄克拉荷马州大学获得了一个奖项，以支持山姆诺布尔博物馆最近的无脊椎动物收藏。 这一科学资源记录了俄克拉荷马州及其他地区的生物多样性，是俄克拉荷马州最大的无脊椎动物收藏之一。该合同将支持安装一个移动的存储（压缩机）系统，并提供新的昆虫学柜。 该项目改善了基础设施，以充分和有效地利用现有空间，并提高潜在的收集能力。 加强了研究人员和学生对标本的收集安全和实际访问。 该项目将与博物馆现有的ExplorOlogy计划相结合，以吸引K-12学生参与研究，并鼓励美国原住民的参与，这是俄克拉荷马州最大的代表性不足的群体。萨姆·诺布尔博物馆的40万个昆虫标本，这是俄克拉荷马州唯一活跃的昆虫学收藏。该系列包括最大和最全面的Byrrhoidea系列之一，这是一个水生甲虫超家族。 该系列还包括CA。160，000双翅目，来自早期和最近的调查，库存，流行病学研究和媒介生态学。该收藏品包含2，796种已编目和数字化的主要和次要昆虫类型，以及历史上重要的蜻蜓，蝴蝶和其他甲虫群。沿着新的压实系统和新的橱柜的安装，将完成收集的重组，并将纳入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，这些标本提供了建州前后几十年昆虫多样性的宝贵记录（1907年，俄克拉荷马州被指定为印第安领地，直到1889年开始大规模土地开发）。目前，这是俄克拉荷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.