CSBR: Natural History: Preserving and ensuring access to critical biological collections in an emerging museum at the University of Nevada, Reno

内华达州位于大盆地的核心，拥有独特的动植物群，但也是一个受到入侵物种、引水和其他土地利用行为威胁的地区。许多分类群和整个群落都濒临灭绝，数量正在减少。大盆地是鱼类特有的地方，在过去的100年里经历了12次鱼类灭绝，比北美任何其他地区都要多。其中8个发生在内华达州，仅内华达州就有7个物种灭绝。几乎三分之一的现存鱼类学动物被联邦政府列为濒危物种。鉴于该地区的巨大变化，以及那些尚未到来的变化，博物馆藏品在支持生物科学方面发挥着重要作用，提供了关于区域生物多样性的基线信息，并记录了几十年来的生物变化。内华达大学里诺分校（UNR）的流体收藏是一个关键的资源，是内华达材料最广泛的收藏之一，包含了不可替代的灭绝、灭绝和濒危分类群标本。通过开放公共展览空间，新的自然历史博物馆在内华达州的生物多样性教育中发挥着独特的作用。本科生，毕业生和校友参与博物馆的各个方面，包括举办K-12参观和创建公共展示和外展内容，旨在满足国家即将采用的下一代科学标准。UNR最近整合了大部分的自然历史收藏，这些收藏以前分散在不同的校园外，现在都集中在校园内一个新装修的空间里。该奖项支持将流体收集整合到这一资源中，使研究人员和管理人员可以获得约28,100种爬行动物和鱼类标本（包括灭绝和濒危分类群）。除了将材料转移到校园内的中心位置外，标本将被转移到新的、更合适的容器中，并经过全面编目、数字化和地理参考，以便通过在线数据库门户发布。保护、保存和确保对这些藏品的访问将使研究和管理团体有能力重建大盆地的进化和生态历史。该项目的影响包括科学和社会效益，包括扩展已经成功的K-12外展计划，并为流体收藏和自然历史博物馆建立一个统一的网络。该项目产生的所有数据将发布在网上（http://arctos.database.museum），并与iDigBio （https://www.idigbio.org/）共享，以确保研究人员和教育工作者可以访问。

The state of Nevada, located in the core of the Great Basin, contains a unique flora and fauna, but is also a region under threat by invasive species, water diversions, and other land-use practices. A host of taxa and entire communities are endangered and in decline. The Great Basin, which is high in fish endemism, has experienced 12 fish extinctions in the past 100 years, more than any other region in North America. Eight of these have occurred in Nevada, with seven extinctions endemic to Nevada alone. Almost a third of the remaining ichthyofauna is federally listed. Given the dramatic changes in the region, and those yet to come, museum collections play a significant role in supporting organismal science, providing baseline information about regional biodiversity and chronicling biotic change over decades. The fluid collections at University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) are a pivotal resource, ranking among the most extensive holdings of Nevada material and containing irreplaceable specimens of extinct, extirpated, and endangered taxa. Through the opening of public exhibit space, the new Natural History Museum is playing a unique role in biodiversity education in Nevada. Undergraduates, graduates, and alumni are engaged in all aspects of the museum, including hosting K-12 visits and the creation of public displays and outreach content, developed with an eye towards meeting the state's soon-to-be-adopted Next Generation Science Standards. The UNR has recently consolidated the majority of its natural history collections, formerly housed in widely disparate, off-campus locations, into a single, newly-renovated space on-campus. This award supports integration of fluid collections into this resource, making ca. 28,100 herpetological and fish specimens (including extinct and endangered taxa) accessible for researchers and managers. In addition to moving material to a central, on-campus location, specimens will be transferred to new, more appropriate containers, fully catalogued, digitized, and georeferenced for publication through online database portals. Securing, preserving, and ensuring access to these collections will allow research and management communities the ability to reconstruct the evolutionary and ecological history of the Great Basin. Impacts of this project include both scientific and societal benefits, including expansion of an already successful K-12 outreach program, and establishment of a consolidated web presence for both fluid collections and natural history museum. All data resulting from this project will be posted online (http://arctos.database.museum) and shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and educators.