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，收藏了来自美国东南部和其他地区的陆生和淡水节肢动物。该馆藏的全球显著优势在于水生昆虫和黑蝇，前者是淡水生态系统健康状况的重要生物指标，后者是人类疾病的重要媒介。作为南卡罗莱纳的主要昆虫收集，该资源服务于区域害虫诊断需求，为各种各样的调查和监测项目提供担保，并支持该地区节肢动物多样性的保护规划。该馆拥有超过一百万个标本，代表超过11,000个物种，拥有丰富的历史生物多样性数据。然而，藏品的储存系统正在老化，藏品的许多部分都面临着博物馆害虫和防腐剂蒸发的危险。该项目将包括将所有标本转移到现代橱柜，抽屉和小瓶中，以确保其寿命，并将在此过程中对位置和标本图像进行数字化。在三年的项目中，将设立几个新职位，包括收集经理、研究生助理和几个兼职本科生助理。收集和收集的数据的改进将大大扩大我们的推广和推广计划的范围，改善区域害虫监测工作，并为培养昆虫学和生物多样性科学的研究生和本科生提供很大的机会。集合安置将在两个新专用空间的改造之后，毗邻目前占用的空间。气密橱柜将在整个过程中使用，以消除对熏蒸剂的依赖，以便在干燥，固定的收集中进行害虫保护。在酒精保存的收集，旧的小瓶与退化的塞将被安全的螺旋盖小瓶取代，所有的小瓶将被移动到封闭的橱柜，以防止光线。随着收集存储的升级，将对收集的每个物种的样本进行成像，并在学生和群众的共同帮助下捕获和转录相关数据。数据将被移植到一个关系的、有凭证的标本数据库（指定），并且唯一的标本标识符将应用于所有数字化的标本。数据和图像将通过博物馆的网页（https://sites.google.com/site/clemsonarthropodcollection/）以及诸如iDigBio （http://www.idigbio.org）和全球生物多样性信息设施等聚合器共享。拓展活动将包括在克莱姆森大学主校区和卫星设施举办的生物多样性活动，参与公民科学数据收集工作，以及扩大我们的内部参观计划。

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.