CSBR: Natural History: Compact Mobile Storage Retrofit, Electrical to Mechanical, Missouri Botanical Garden

该奖项旨在通过将当前紧凑型存储范围中的电动/电动驱动部分转换为手动/机械驱动部分，改善密苏里州植物园植物标本馆中约250万份植物标本的物理访问。 密苏里州植物园标本馆成立于1859年，收藏了来自地球仪的660多万份蕨类植物、针叶树、开花植物和苔藓标本，是美国第二大同类标本馆，也是世界上最大的标本馆之一。 植物标本馆是保存植物的主要全球性储存库，也是世界各地科学家、学生、政府和非政府机构以及一般公众可以利用的植物学信息研究资源。 植物标本馆中的标本记录了地球上植物的多样性，可用于回答与物种多样性、遗传学、生态学、环境变化、农学和人类对植物的其他用途有关的许多基本问题。 分析标本属性及其相关数据，以及来自其他来源的信息，可以提供解决这些问题的方法，但只有当标本是照顾和访问。 最终，植物标本馆资源的使用将使人们更好地了解世界上丰富的植物遗产，并发展必要的知识库，以保护和利用这种多样性，为未来的社会利益服务。该项目将把莱曼大楼的十台电动/电动压实机系列改造为手动/机械驱动。 经过40多年的连续服务，越来越缺乏操作可靠性，很难找到零件和进行维修，这严重影响了用户对收藏品的使用。 这是一个严重而紧迫的问题，因为每年有数百名工作人员、学生和访问研究人员每周七天、每天24小时都可以访问标本室。 该项目的完成将立即提高压实机系统的可靠性和易用性，并将大大减少未来的维护问题。 转换为手动系统将涉及用新的面板取代压实机的端部面板，新面板装有手动曲柄和齿轮及链条驱动系统。 虽然这个项目是一个相对基本的基础设施改造，其结果将有一个真实的影响和利益，所有谁咨询标本馆收藏。 它将允许用户更有效地利用他们的时间，简单，不受阻碍地访问集合的所有部分。 这一基础设施的改善延续了花园的长期承诺，即提供安全和可靠的访问其所照顾的标本。 有关密苏里州植物园及其科学和保护计划的更多信息可在网上查阅（www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/）。

This award is made to improve physical access to approximately 2.5 million herbarium specimens in the Herbarium of the Missouri Botanical Garden by converting the portion of the current compact storage ranges that are electrical/motor-drive to manual/mechanical-drive. The Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium, established in 1859, contains over 6.6 million specimens of ferns, conifers, flowering plants and mosses from around the globe, making it the second largest collection of its kind in the United States and one of the largest in the world. The Herbarium is a major global repository of preserved plants and a research resource of botanical information accessible to a world-wide community of scientists, students, governmental and non-governmental agencies and the general public. The specimens contained in the herbarium document the variety of plant life on Earth and can be used to answer a multitude of fundamental questions related to species diversity, genetics, ecology, environmental change, agronomy and other uses of plants by people. Analysis of specimen attributes and their associated data, as well as information from other sources, can provide solutions to these problems but only if the specimens are cared for and accessible. Ultimately, the use of herbarium resources will lead to a better understanding of the world's rich botanical heritage and to the development of the knowledge base necessary to conserve and use that diversity for societal benefit into the future.This project will retrofit the ten electrical/motor-drive compactor ranges in the Lehmann Building to manual/mechanical-drive. After more than forty years of continuous service, the increasing lack of operational reliability and the difficulty in finding parts and making repairs is significantly impacting access to the collection by users. This is a serious and urgent problem since access to the herbarium collection is available 24 hours per day, seven days a week for hundreds of staff, students and visiting researchers each year. Completion of this project will immediately improve the reliability and ease of use of the compactor system, and will significantly reduce future maintenance issues. The conversion to a manual system will involve replacing the end panels of the compactor units with new panels fitted with a hand crank and a gear and chain-drive system. Although this project is a relatively fundamental infrastructure modification, the results will have a real impact and benefit for all who consult the herbarium collection. It will allow users to utilize their time more efficiently with simple, unimpeded access to all parts of the collection. This infrastructure improvement continues the Garden's long-term commitment to provide safe and reliable access to the specimens under its care. Additional information on the Missouri Botanical Garden and its science and conservation programs may be consulted online (www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/).