CSBR: Natural History Collections: Housing, Databasing, Digitizing and Accessibility Upgrades to the Largest Pacific Island Land Snail Collection (Bishop Museum)

岛屿只占地球陆地面积的5%，但就陆地面积而言，世界上没有任何地方的陆地蜗牛多样性能与太平洋岛屿相比，那里有6,000多个物种。然而，栖息地破坏、环境变化和入侵物种的入侵威胁着本土蜗牛的种群。蜗牛是所有主要动物中灭绝率最高的物种，大多数蜗牛都来自太平洋岛屿。世界上最大的太平洋岛屿陆生蜗牛收藏在伯尼采保阿希主教博物馆（BPBM），其中收藏了600万个标本。自然历史收藏品对于保持研究知识和做出有关生物多样性保护的决定至关重要。为了确保这些收集和改善研究人员，自然资源管理人员，学生和公众对关键数据的访问，该项目将在环境稳定和保护容器中重新安置陆生蜗牛标本，对物种描述所依据的所有原始标本进行成像，并收集所有收集数据，以便随时提供这些数据。项目团队将招募和培训大学生和高中生来协助这项工作，学生将接受从系统学到策展和博物馆保护等主题的培训。研究人员和学生将参加外联活动，以提高公众对包括陆生蜗牛在内的无脊椎动物及其对自然生态系统的重要性的认识，并监测环境变化、人类移徙和贸易;以及自然历史收藏品对保护和保护生物多样性的价值。世界上最大和地理上最多样化的太平洋岛屿陆生蜗牛收藏品的安全性和可获得性将确保完成项目目标。具体而言，为了防止拜恩病和玻璃病，将从约116，900个玻璃小瓶中取出所有棉花，并更换为聚乙烯盖或存档泡沫。将大约5，000个批次的髋臼杯自由放置在无盖盒中，并将其转移到聚苯乙烯摩擦盒中，以固定它们并防止与标签分离。所有标签目前都是手写的，这些标签将被带有QR码的热转印无酸标签所取代。分类账、标签和其他历史文件中的数据将被数字化、数字化管理，太平洋岛屿蜗牛主要类型的图像将在网上和类型目录出版物中提供。标本数据和图像将通过门户网站提供，包括iDigBio（idigbio.org）、全球生物多样性信息设施和生物多样性和生物多样性管理局网站（bishopmuseum.org/PILS）。

Islands comprise only five percent of the Earth's landmass, yet nowhere in the world, in relation to land area, does land snail diversity compare to that of the Pacific Islands, where more than 6,000 species occur. However, habitat destruction, environmental change and incursions by invasive species threaten populations of native land snails. Snails have the highest recorded extinction rate of any major animal group, and the majority of extinctions are from Pacific Islands. The largest Pacific Island land snail collection in the world is at the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum (BPBM), which houses six million specimens. Natural history collections are critical to maintain research knowledge and to making decisions about biodiversity conservation. To secure this collection and improve accessibility to critical data for researchers, natural resource managers, students, and the public, this project will rehouse land snail specimens in environmentally stable and protective containers, image all original specimens from which species descriptions are based, and digitize all collection data so as to make these data readily available. The project team will recruit and train college and high school students to assist with this work and students will receive training in topics ranging from systematics to curation and museum conservation. Researchers and students will participate in outreach activities to increase public awareness of invertebrates, including land snails, their importance to natural ecosystems, and for monitoring environmental change, human migration and trade; and in the value of natural history collections to conserving and securing biodiversity.The security and accessibility of the largest and most biogeographically diverse Pacific Island land snail collection in the world will be ensured by completing the objectives of the project. Specifically, to safeguard against Byne's and glass disease, all cotton will be removed from the approximately 116,900 glass vials and replaced with polyethylene caps or archival foam. Approximately 5,000 lots with shells housed freely in no-lid boxes will be transferred to polystyrene friction boxes to secure them and prevent disassociation from labels. All labels are currently handwritten and these will be replaced by thermal transfer, acid-free labels with QR codes. Data from the ledger, labels, and other historical documents will be digitized, digitally curated, and images of Pacific island land snail primary types will be made available online and in type catalog publications. Specimen data and images will be made available through portals including iDigBio (idigbio.org), the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, and the BPBM website (bishopmuseum.org/PILS).