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

1561706: CSBR：自然史：保护、扩大和开放纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院的罗斯福野生动物收藏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·罗斯福总统命名并批准，是一个活跃的研究标本库，记录了北美（特别是东北）的生物多样性。它也是美国订阅最多的研究生和本科生有机生物学教育项目之一的核心收藏。该项目将保护RWLC的鸟类、哺乳动物和寄生虫标本，并将其放置在一个新的、位于中心的校园收藏中心的现代节省空间的橱柜中。该中心将促进一项全校范围的倡议，将纽约州立大学esf的学生从代表性不足的群体中联系起来，作为“收集大使”，参与环境生物学的研究、教育和领导。一名研究生（收藏助理）将接受策展技术方面的培训，并将制作高分辨率图像，使其可在网上访问，以便与雪城市中心的高中生分享，并通过近距离观看激发对自然的兴奋。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。公众将能够通过藏品研究空间的大窗户参观和观看藏品。随着我们国家生物多样性的减少，社会对自然历史收藏的需求增加了。然而，集合可访问性和未来扩展的基础是安全性。许多RWLC的脊椎动物标本可以追溯到19世纪和20世纪初，而现在的橱柜也不年轻多少。在目前的条件下，由于过度拥挤和密封不良的橱柜，害虫和缺乏数字化，标本无法获得。该项目利用国家奖项在现有的新建筑内完成了一个大型的气候控制空间，该空间将容纳生长和大量使用的收藏品，并促进它们的数字化。藏品迁移将涉及标本的定量评估、稳定和综合虫害管理，以及藏品大使（本科生实习生）和藏品助理的管理和数据管理培训。作为重组的一部分，标本将被重新排列并数字化。数字化标本的新抽屉和现代标本安排将成为纽约州立大学环境科学基金会几代新兴环境领导者的基于收集的研究基础。RWLC的许多标本都来自纽约“永远野生”的阿迪朗达克公园，该公园深受RWLC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共享（www.idigbio.org）。

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).