CSBR: Living Stocks: Securing a Living Collection of Rare Plants at the Montgomery Botanical Center Through the Installation of an Automatic Backup Generator System.

CSBR：活畜：通过安装自动备用发电机系统，保护蒙哥马利植物中心的稀有植物活体收藏。

• 批准号: 1561346
• 负责人: M. Patrick Griffith
• 金额: $ 6.06万
• 依托单位: Montgomery Botanical Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561346&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Living; Stocks; Securing; Collection

CSBR: Living Stocks: Securing a Living Collections of Rare Plants at the Montgomery Botanical Center Through the Installation of an Automatic Backup Generator System.An award is made to the Montgomery Botanical Center (MBC) to install an automatic backup power system to secure its collections for community use. MBC living stock collections help advance scientific understanding in numerous fields in biology. The facility provides the most diverse and thoroughly documented collections of palms and cycads in the US, through its historic and ongoing plant exploration fieldwork, as well as its location in frost-free, subtropical South Florida. In addition, to their use in research and education, maintaining these collections reduces the need for field collecting, preventing the extirpation of species from their natural habitats. However, South Florida is prone to more frequent lightning and hurricane strikes and these hazards threaten the security of the collection. Loss of electrical power in Florida is highly correlated with lightning and wind, and such interruptions create dangerous conditions for tender seedlings in the greenhouse, and living stocks in cold storage. Thus, backup power for these facilities will ensure continued and increased service of this collection to researchers and to the public. MBC closely collaborates with local institutions, including some of the most diverse university communities in the US. MBC also fully leverages its living collection for education, training, broadened participation, and public understanding of science. This is accomplished through programs in service learning, paid fellowships, frequent student fieldtrips, high school internships, volunteer programs, guided tours, and frequent online and printed publications. This project will ensure continued security of the living collections for further research use. Recent improvements to MBC's living collections propagation and cryostorage environment have improved survivability, leading to greater diversity of the collection. This project will install an automatic backup generator system to ensure uninterrupted electrical power to the propagation and cyrostorage facilities. This will ensure that critical environmental systems (reverse osmosis water filtration, timed mist and irrigation, air circulation, environmental controls, and ultracold freezer systems) can function in the event of a short- to long-term power outage. This upgrade will ensure the long-term security of these living collections, and their future service to the NSF BIO-funded research community. Ensuring a stable environment for cryostorage and propagation facilities will also further increase the potential diversity of the living collections, helping to reach a broader pool of potential users. The outcomes of this project can be found on the Montgomery Botanical Center website (http://www.montgomerybotanical.org/Collection.htm).

CSBR：活牲畜：通过安装自动备用发电机系统，确保蒙哥马利植物中心珍稀植物的活体收藏。蒙哥马利植物中心（MBC）获得了一个奖项，以安装自动备用电源系统，以确保其收藏供社区使用。MBC活种群的收集有助于促进生物学众多领域的科学理解。该设施通过其历史和正在进行的植物勘探实地工作以及其位于无霜的亚热带南佛罗里达的位置，提供了美国最多样化和最完整的记录棕榈和苏铁收藏。此外，除了在研究和教育中的使用外，维护这些收藏品还减少了实地收集的需要，防止物种从其自然栖息地灭绝。然而，南佛罗里达容易遭受更频繁的闪电和飓风袭击，这些危险威胁到藏品的安全。佛罗里达的电力损失与闪电和风高度相关，这种中断为温室中的嫩幼苗和冷藏中的活牲畜创造了危险的条件。因此，这些设施的备用电源将确保继续和增加对研究人员和公众的服务。MBC与当地机构密切合作，包括美国一些最多样化的大学社区。 MBC还充分利用其生活收集的教育，培训，扩大参与和公众对科学的理解。这是通过服务学习，支付奖学金，经常学生实地考察，高中实习，志愿者计划，导游图尔斯，并经常在线和印刷出版物的方案来实现的。该项目将确保活体收藏品的持续安全，以供进一步研究使用。MBC最近对活体标本繁殖和低温保存环境的改进提高了存活率，使标本更加多样化。该项目将安装一个自动备用发电机系统，以确保传播和冷冻储存设施的电力不间断。这将确保关键的环境系统（反渗透水过滤、定时喷雾和灌溉、空气循环、环境控制和超冷冷冻系统）在短期至长期停电的情况下仍能正常工作。此次升级将确保这些活体标本的长期安全性，以及它们未来对NSF生物资助研究社区的服务。确保低温储存和繁殖设施的稳定环境也将进一步增加活体收藏的潜在多样性，有助于接触更广泛的潜在用户。该项目的成果可在蒙哥马利植物中心网站（http：//www.montgomerybotanical.org/Collection.htm）上查阅。