CSBR: Natural History: Securing, Expanding, and Making Accessible the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry

CSBR：自然历史：纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院罗斯福野生动物收藏的保护、扩展和开放

• 批准号: 1561706
• 负责人: Rebecca Rundell
• 金额: $ 49.17万
• 依托单位: SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• 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: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Securing; Expanding

1561706: CSBR: Natural History: Securing, Expanding, and Making Accessible the Roosevelt Wild Life Collections at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and ForestryThe Roosevelt Wild Life Collections (RWLC) at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), named for and endorsed by President Theodore Roosevelt, is an active repository of research specimens documenting North American (particularly northeastern) biodiversity. It is also a collection that is central to one of the most heavily subscribed graduate and undergraduate organismal biology education programs in the United States. This project will secure and make accessible the RWLC bird, mammal and parasite specimens in modern space-saving cabinetry within a new, centrally located campus collections center. This center will catalyze a campus-wide initiative that connects SUNY-ESF students from underrepresented groups, as "Collections Ambassadors," to research, education, and leadership in environmental biology. A graduate student (Collections Assistant) will be trained in curatorial techniques and will make high-resolution images web-accessible in order to share them with Syracuse inner city high school students and ignite excitement about nature by viewing it up-close. These collections and natural science educational connections will be important for students' career development. The public will be able to tour and view the collections through large windows onto the collections research space. As our nation's biodiversity declines, societal need for natural history collections increases. However, the foundation for collections accessibility and future expansion is security. Many of RWLC vertebrate specimens date to the 1800s and early 1900s and current cabinetry is not much younger. Under present conditions, specimens are inaccessible due to overcrowding in inadequate and poorly sealing cabinets, pests, and lack of digitization. This project leverages a state award to finish a large climate-controlled space within an existing new building, which will house growing and heavily used collections and facilitate their digitization. The collections move will involve quantitative assessment, stabilization, and integrated pest management of specimens, as well as curation and data management training of Collections Ambassadors (undergraduate interns) and the Collections Assistant. As part of the reorganization, specimens will be re-arranged and digitized. The new drawers of digitized specimens and modern specimen arrangement will be the basis for collections-based research for generations of SUNY-ESF's emerging environmental leaders. Many of the RWLC's specimens are from New York's "forever wild" Adirondack Park, beloved by the RWLC's namesake President Theodore Roosevelt. Project results will be made available on the web (www.esf.edu/rwls/) and digitized specimen data will be shared with iDigBio (www.idigbio.org).

1561706：CSBR：自然史：保护，扩大，并使可解释的罗斯福野生动物收藏在纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院（SUNY-ESF）的罗斯福野生动物收藏（RWLC），由西奥多·罗斯福总统命名和批准，是一个活跃的研究标本库，记录了北美（特别是东北部）的生物多样性。 这也是一个集合，是中央最重订阅的研究生和本科生有机生物学教育计划在美国之一。该项目将在一个新的位于市中心的校园收藏中心内，将RWLC的鸟类、哺乳动物和寄生虫标本保存在现代化的节省空间的橱柜中，并使这些标本易于获取。该中心将促进一个校园范围内的倡议，连接来自代表性不足的群体，作为“收藏大使”的SUNY-ESF学生，研究，教育和环境生物学的领导。一名研究生（收藏助理）将接受策展技术培训，并将制作高分辨率的图像，以便与锡拉丘兹市中心的高中生分享，并通过近距离观看点燃对自然的兴奋。 这些收藏和自然科学教育的联系将对学生的职业发展很重要。公众将能够通过大窗户参观和查看藏品研究空间。随着我国生物多样性的下降，社会对自然历史收藏品的需求增加。然而，馆藏可访问性和未来扩展的基础是安全。RWLC的许多脊椎动物标本可以追溯到19世纪和20世纪初，目前的橱柜也不年轻。在目前的条件下，标本是无法访问的，由于过度拥挤的不充分和密封不良的橱柜，害虫，缺乏数字化。该项目利用国家奖在现有的新建筑内完成了一个大型气候控制空间，该空间将容纳不断增长和大量使用的藏品，并促进其数字化。藏品搬迁将涉及标本的定量评估、稳定化和综合虫害管理，以及藏品大使（本科实习生）和藏品助理的策展和数据管理培训。作为重组的一部分，标本将被重新安排和数字化。新的数字化标本抽屉和现代标本排列将成为几代SUNY-ESF新兴环境领导者基于收藏的研究的基础。RWLC的许多标本来自纽约"永远野生"的阿迪朗达克公园，深受RWLC的同名总统西奥多罗斯福的喜爱。项目结果将在网上公布（www.esf.edu/rwls/），数字化标本数据将与iDigBio（www.example.com）共享。