Integration of Two Large Orphaned Lichen Collections into the Oregon State University Herbarium

俄勒冈州立大学（OSU）植物标本馆是一个主要的地区收藏，大约有425,000种植物和真菌标本。这是一个积极发展和大量利用的研究植物标本馆，是俄勒冈州各种植物和真菌的文献和研究的主要资源。该项目将增加大约22万份永久从美国农业部林业局（USFS）转移过来的地衣标本。这些标本是作为USFS森林清查和分析（FIA）和空气资源管理计划的一部分收集的。它们包含了常规植物标本馆收集不到的独特而大量的数据和标本来源。广泛的、细粒度的采样框架为FIA项目提供了物种分布建模、系统地理学和测量生物对环境变化的反应的特殊基础。保护这些标本的需求十分迫切，因为它们目前处于非档案条件下，研究人员无法接触到。将USFS的标本纳入俄勒冈州立大学的植物标本室将保护它们的未来，因为俄勒冈州立大学承诺长期保存和使用生物收藏品。此外，俄勒冈州立大学开发的一个关于地衣的流行教育资源（http://ocid.nacse.org/lichenland）将作为该项目的一部分得到振兴和加强。为了容纳USFS的地衣收藏，54个钢制植物标本室将被添加到俄勒冈州立大学植物标本室。将对地衣标本标签进行拍照，以获取国际汽联和空气资源管理电子数据库中未保存的信息。然后，这些标本将被重新包装在档案材料中，进行分类整理，并整合到俄勒冈州立大学植物标本室。标本标签数据和图像将通过设在华盛顿大学植物标本馆、伯克自然历史和文化博物馆的太平洋西北植物标本馆联盟（http://www.pnwherbaria.org）以及数字化HUB iDigBio在线提供。有关俄勒冈州立大学植物标本室和本项目的更多信息，请访问：http://oregonstate.edu/dept/botany/herbarium。

The Oregon State University (OSU) Herbarium is a major regional collection of approximately 425,000 specimens of plants and fungi. It is an actively growing and heavily utilized research herbarium, and is the primary resource for the documentation and study of Oregon's diverse plants and fungi. This project will enable the addition of approximately 220,000 lichen specimens permanently transferred from the USDA Forest Service (USFS). These specimens were collected as part of the USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) and Air Resource Management programs. They comprise a unique and voluminous source of data and specimens not available in regular herbarium collections. The extensive, fine-grained sampling framework for the FIA program provides an exceptional basis for species distribution modeling, phylogeography, and measuring biological responses to environmental change. The need to secure these specimens is urgent because they are currently housed in non-archival conditions and are inaccessible to researchers. Incorporating the USFS specimens into the OSU Herbarium will protect them for the future by virtue of OSU's commitment to long-term preservation and use of biological collections. In addition, a popular educational resource developed at OSU for learning about lichens (http://ocid.nacse.org/lichenland) will be revitalized and enhanced as part of this project.To accommodate the USFS lichen collections, 54 steel herbarium cases will be added to the OSU Herbarium. The lichen specimen labels will be photographed in order to capture information that is not maintained in the FIA and Air Resource Management electronic databases. The specimens will then be repackaged in archival materials, organized taxonomically, and integrated into the OSU Herbarium. Specimen label data and images will be made available online via the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria (http://www.pnwherbaria.org) which is based at the University of Washington Herbarium, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, and with the digitization HUB iDigBio. More information about the OSU Herbarium and this project is available at: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/botany/herbarium.