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

1561706：CSBR：自然历史：保护、扩展和提供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的罗斯福野生动物收藏，以西奥多·罗斯福总统的名字命名并得到西奥多·罗斯福总统的支持，是记录北美(特别是东北部)生物多样性的研究标本的活跃储存库。它也是美国订阅最多的研究生和本科生生物生物学教育项目之一的核心收藏。该项目将在一个新的、位于中心位置的校园收藏中心内，将RWLC鸟类、哺乳动物和寄生虫标本放在节省空间的现代橱柜中，并使其能够访问。该中心将推动一项全校范围的倡议，将来自代表性不足群体的纽约州立大学-ESF学生作为“收藏大使”，与环境生物学领域的研究、教育和领导力联系起来。一名研究生(藏品助理)将接受策展技术培训，并将使高分辨率图像可在网上访问，以便与锡拉丘兹市中心的高中生分享，并通过近距离观看来点燃对自然的兴奋。这些藏品和自然科学教育联系对学生的职业发展将是重要的。公众将能够通过收藏品研究空间的大窗口参观和查看收藏品。随着我国生物多样性的减少，社会对自然历史收藏的需求增加。然而，藏品可获得性和未来扩展的基础是安全。许多RWLC脊椎动物标本可以追溯到19世纪和20世纪初，现在的细木工匠并不年轻。在目前的条件下，由于不充分和密封不良的柜子里过度拥挤、虫害和缺乏数字化，无法接触到标本。该项目利用国家奖励，在现有的新建筑内完成了一个大型的气候控制空间，将容纳不断增长和频繁使用的藏品，并促进它们的数字化。收集行动将涉及标本的量化评估、稳定和虫害综合管理，以及对收集大使(本科生实习生)和收集助理的管理和数据管理培训。作为重组的一部分，标本将被重新排列和数字化。新的数字化标本抽屉和现代标本排列将成为纽约州立大学ESF新兴环境领袖几代人基于收藏的研究的基础。许多RWLC的标本来自纽约“永远的野生”阿迪朗达克公园，RWLC的同名总统西奥多·罗斯福非常喜欢这里。项目成果将在网上公布(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).