CSBR: Natural History: High-Density Storage, Improved Preservation, and Digital Networking for OSU COV Collections of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles

CSBR：自然历史：OSU COV 鱼类、两栖动物和爬行动物收藏的高密度存储、改进的保存和数字网络

• 批准号: 1458273
• 负责人: Karen McBee
• 金额: $ 42.24万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-15 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1458273&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Density; Storage

Oklahoma State University Collection of Vertebrates (OSU COV) comprises collections of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and frozen tissues and is administered through the OSU Department of Integrative Biology. These represent invaluable specimens and associated data that are used in research, instruction, and outreach within the OSU/Northern Oklahoma community and throughout the larger community of scholars. This project focuses on improvements to COV-Fishes and COV-Amphibians and Reptiles through replacement of substandard storage containers, installation of high-density, compactible shelving, and completion of digitization and georeferencing for these collections, thus allowing for enhanced use of these collections for research, university instruction, and public education/outreach. These improvements will facilitate use of these collections by OSU faculty and students, researchers from other institutions, and also will enable collaborative efforts with K-12 groups and regional Tribal Colleges that have been hindered by poor conditions of the collection. This award ensures protection of irreplaceable specimens, increase efficiency of use of space, and provide access to associated data via the Internet to researchers within and beyond the OSU community.The COV-Fishes contains specimens from around the globe with concentrations in the Central Plains of North America and Nepal. This collection also includes a more than 20-year series of fishes from sampling stations throughout Oklahoma donated by Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) that have not yet been cataloged. The COV-Amphibians and Reptiles collection includes specimens from around the world including Chilean lizards and Ozark Plateau salamanders. These collections include type specimens of species described in the last 10 years and have provided materials for these descriptions to researchers at several other universities. Nepalese specimens potentially hold additional undescribed species and ODEQ specimens have great potential for understanding long-term patterns/processes in stream ecology, impacts of environmental change and contaminants, and effects of changing patterns of land use. This project will support installation of high-density, compactible shelving and stainless steel tanks, and to replace substandard containers. The collection catalogs are partially digitized, but only Oklahoma fish are georeferenced, and no catalog is currently searchable via the Internet. The project will allow for digitization and georeferencing of all catalogs and development of a searchable database. Collaborations established with interdisciplinary college-level and K-12 cross-disciplinary programs at OSU and a growing collaboration with Comanche Nation College will be leveraged through the supported improvements and digitization. All data resulting from this project will be shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and the public.

俄克拉荷马州立大学脊椎动物收藏(OSU COV)包括鱼类、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类、哺乳动物和冷冻组织的收藏，由俄克拉何马州立大学综合生物学系管理。这些代表了无价的样本和相关数据，用于俄亥俄州立大学/北俄克拉荷马州社区和整个更大的学者社区的研究、教学和推广。该项目的重点是通过更换不符合标准的储存容器、安装高密度、可压缩的架子、完成这些收藏品的数字化和地理参考，从而使这些收藏品能够更多地用于研究、大学教学和公众教育/宣传，从而改进对COV鱼类和COV两栖动物和爬行动物的改进。这些改进将促进俄亥俄州立大学的教职员工和学生以及其他机构的研究人员使用这些藏品，还将有助于与因藏品条件恶劣而受到阻碍的K-12小组和地区部落学院进行合作。该奖项确保了对不可替代标本的保护，提高了空间的使用效率，并通过互联网向俄亥俄州立大学社区内外的研究人员提供了相关数据的访问。COV-FISES包含来自全球各地的标本，集中在北美和尼泊尔的中原地区。这个收藏品还包括俄克拉荷马州环境质量部(ODEQ)捐赠的俄克拉荷马州各地采样站20多年来尚未编目的鱼类系列。COV-两栖和爬行动物收藏包括来自世界各地的标本，包括智利蜥蜴和欧扎克高原火蜥蜴。这些收藏包括在过去10年中描述的物种的模式标本，并向其他几所大学的研究人员提供了这些描述的材料。尼泊尔的标本可能含有更多未描述的物种，而ODEQ标本在了解河流生态的长期模式/过程、环境变化和污染物的影响以及土地利用模式变化的影响方面具有很大潜力。该项目将支持安装高密度、可压缩货架和不锈钢储罐，并更换不合格的集装箱。收集的目录部分数字化，但只有俄克拉荷马州的鱼类是地理参考的，目前没有目录可以通过互联网进行搜索。该项目将允许对所有目录进行数字化和地理参考，并开发一个可搜索的数据库。与俄亥俄州立大学的跨学科大学水平和K-12跨学科项目建立的合作，以及与科曼奇民族学院日益增长的合作，将通过所支持的改进和数字化得到利用。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。