CSBR: Natural History: Expanding the footprint and the reach of the Clemson University Arthropod Collection

克莱姆森大学节肢动物收藏馆是一个有90年历史的档案馆，收集了来自美国东南部和其他地区的陆地和淡水节肢动物。该系列在全球范围内的重要优势是水生昆虫，这是淡水生态系统健康的重要生物指标，以及黑蝇，这是人类疾病的重要载体。作为南卡罗来纳州的主要昆虫收集，这一资源服务于区域害虫诊断的需要，凭证各种各样的调查和监测项目，并支持该地区的节肢动物多样性的保护规划。该博物馆拥有超过11，000个物种的100多万个标本，收藏了丰富的历史生物多样性数据。然而，藏品的存储系统正在老化，许多藏品都面临着博物馆害虫和防腐剂蒸发的危险。该项目将涉及所有标本转移到现代橱柜，抽屉和小瓶，确保其寿命，并将在此过程中保存地点和标本图像。将创建几个新的职位，包括一个收藏经理，研究生助理，并在该项目的三年多兼职本科生助理。改进的收集和捕获的数据将大大扩大我们的推广和外展计划的覆盖范围，改善区域害虫监测工作，并为昆虫学和生物多样性科学的研究生和本科生提供培训机会。收集重新安置将遵循两个新的专用空间的装修，与目前占用的空间相邻。将在整个过程中采用气密橱柜，以消除对熏蒸剂的依赖，以防止干燥、固定的收集物中的害虫。在酒精保存的收集中，将用安全的螺旋盖小瓶替换具有降解塞子的旧小瓶，并将所有小瓶移至封闭的橱柜中避光。随着藏品存储的升级，藏品中每个物种的样本都将被成像，相关数据将在学生和群众的帮助下被捕获和转录。数据将被移植到一个相关的、有凭证的标本数据库（Specify），唯一的标本标识符将应用于所有数字化标本。数据和图像将通过博物馆的网页（https：//sites.google.com/site/clemsonarthropodcollection/）以及iDigBio（http：//www.example.com）和全球生物多样性信息机制等聚合器共享。www.idigbio.org外联活动将包括在克莱姆森的主校区和卫星设施的生物多样性活动，在公民科学数据收集工作的参与，并扩大我们的内部图尔斯旅游计划。

The Clemson University Arthropod Collection is a 90-year old archive of terrestrial and freshwater arthropods from the southeastern United States and other areas. The collection's globally significant strengths are in aquatic insects, which are important bioindicators of the health of freshwater ecosystems, and black flies, which are significant vectors of human disease. As South Carolina's primary insect collection, this resource serves regional pest diagnostic needs, vouchers a wide variety of survey and monitoring projects, and underpins conservation planning for the region's arthropod diversity. With holdings of over one million specimens representing over 11,000 species, the collection is rich in historical biodiversity data. However, the collection's storage systems are aging, and many parts of the collection are in jeopardy of loss from museum pests and evaporation of preservative. This project will involve transfer of all specimens to modern cabinetry, drawers, and vials, ensuring its longevity, and will digitize locality and specimen images in the process. Several new positions will be created, including a collection manager, graduate assistant, and several part-time undergraduate assistants over the three years of the project. The improved collections and data captured will greatly expand the reach of our extension and outreach programs, improve regional pest monitoring efforts, and offer great opportunities for training of graduate and undergraduate students in entomology and biodiversity science.Collection rehousing will follow renovation of two newly dedicated spaces adjacent to those currently occupied. Air-tight cabinetry will be employed throughout to eliminate dependence on fumigants for pest protection in the dry, pinned collection. In the alcohol-preserved collection, old vials with degraded stoppers will be replaced by secure screw-cap vials, and all vials will be moved into enclosed cabinetry to protect from light. As collection storage is upgraded, exemplars of each species in the collection will be imaged, and the associated data captured and transcribed with a combination of student and crowd-sourced assistance. Data will be ported to a relational, vouchered specimen database (Specify), and unique specimen identifiers will be applied to all specimens digitized. Data and images will be shared through the museum's web pages (https://sites.google.com/site/clemsonarthropodcollection/), as well as through such aggregators as iDigBio (http://www.idigbio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Outreach activities will include biodiversity events at Clemson's main campus and satellite facilities, participation in citizen science data gathering efforts, and expansion of our program of in-house tours.