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

俄克拉荷马大学被授予一个奖项，以支持萨姆·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州的生物多样性，是俄克拉荷马州最大的无脊椎动物集合之一。这项奖励将支持安装移动存储(压实器)系统，并提供新的昆虫学橱柜。该项目改善了基础设施，以充分和有效地利用现有空间，并增加潜在的收集能力。对研究人员和学生来说，收集标本的安全性和实物接触都得到了加强。该项目将与博物馆现有的探索地理学计划相结合，以吸引K-12学生参与研究，并鼓励俄克拉荷马州最大的代表性不足群体-美洲原住民的参与。该项目是长期收藏振兴计划的下一阶段，目的是重新安置和重新管理山姆·诺布尔博物馆的大约40万个固定的昆虫标本，这是俄克拉荷马州唯一活跃的昆虫学收藏品。该藏品包括最大和最全面的水生甲虫超家族--白头虫的藏品之一。该藏品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160,000个双翅目昆虫。该藏品包含2796种初级和次级昆虫类型，已被编目和数字化，以及具有历史意义的蜻蜓、蝴蝶和其他甲虫种群的收藏。随着安装新的压实机系统和新的橱柜，将完成对收藏的重组，并将纳入关于昆虫系统发育关系的最新知识。在这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人领地，直到1889年主要的土地流失开始)。目前，这是俄克拉荷马州唯一一个数字化且易于获取的昆虫学收藏品。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能够获得。

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.