RAPID: Transferring the Southern Illinois University Fluid Vertebrate Collections to the Illinois Natural History Survey

自然历史收藏是不可替代的生物信息库，基于生物信息的数据用于许多领域的基础和应用研究。 这些领域包括但不限于保护生物学、系统分类学和植物地理学。 当自然历史收藏品被忽视或成为孤儿时，大量的生物信息就会丢失或无法为科学界所用。 该快速研究补助金（RAPID）为所有权转让和南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校（SIUC）流体脊椎动物收藏品的物理转移提供资金，以伊利诺伊州香槟尚潘的伊利诺伊州自然历史调查（INHS）。 该项目将协助长期保存SIUC收集的数据。 SIUC的流体脊椎动物收藏品包含80，000多批和700，000个鱼类标本以及6，000多个爬行动物和两栖动物标本。 这两个系列都包含来自美国和世界各地的藏品。 从SIUC收到的信息表明，这些收藏品将由未经培训的工作人员包装并运到校外地点。 这些收藏品将无限期地存放在校外地点，不进行管理或监测。 RAPID团队将与一家商业搬家公司合作，以适当的系统发育顺序包装和标记SIUC收藏品，并将其运送到INHS。

Natural history collections are irreplaceable libraries of biological information and specimen-based data is used for basic and applied research in a multitude of fields. These fields include, but are not limited to conservation biology, systematics, and biogeography. When natural history collections are neglected or orphaned, vast amounts of biological information is lost or made unavailable to the scientific community. This Rapid Research Grant (RAPID) provides funding for the transfer of ownership and the physical transfer of the Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) fluid vertebrates collections to the Illinois Natural History Survey (INHS) in Champaign, Illinois. The project will assist in the long-term preservation of SIUC collections data. The SIUC fluid vertebrates collections contain over 80,000 lots and 700,000 specimens of fishes and over 6,000 reptile and amphibian specimens. Both collections contain holdings from across the United States and around the world. Information received from SIUC indicated that the collections were to be packed and moved to an off-campus location by untrained staff. The collections were to be stored indefinitely at that off-campus location and not curated or monitored. The RAPID team will work with a commercial moving company to pack and label the SIUC collections in appropriate phylogenetic order and transport them to the INHS.