RAPID: A regional plan to rescue the orphaned University of Louisiana Monroe Fish Collection

2017年3月，路易斯安那大学门罗分校（乌尔姆）宣布，它不能再保留其鱼类（鱼类）和爬虫类（爬虫类）标本馆。（两栖动物和爬行动物）研究收藏，因为临时存放藏品的空间计划于2017年8月初开始进行翻新。 乌尔姆的鱼类收藏，包括大约85,000批（罐）代表超过一百万个鱼类标本，在北美最大的鱼类收藏之列。 该项目将支持将整个乌尔姆鱼类收藏的所有权转移到杜兰大学生物多样性研究所（TUBRI）;部分收藏将转移到路易斯安那州，阿肯色州，密西西比和得克萨斯州的其他感兴趣的机构。 一家商业运输公司将包装和移动整个乌尔姆鱼收集到TUBRI。 这些乌尔姆标本记录了路易斯安那州及周边地区的自然遗产，可以为了解影响该地区和国家的关键环境问题提供有价值的见解，包括记录入侵物种、影响水资源的变化、湿地丧失和海洋酸化。1999年，路易斯安那理工大学向乌尔姆捐赠了大约13%的乌尔姆鱼类标本。但从未被列入乌尔姆鱼类收集数据库。 将这些批次的数据输入乌尔姆数据库，将样本计数添加到数据库中缺失此信息的罐子，并满足罐子的管理需求（添加酒精，更换盖子）。一旦所有这些工作完成，路易斯安那州立大学、东南路易斯安那大学、阿肯色州州立大学、密西西比自然科学博物馆和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的鱼类收藏馆馆长将收到来自他们所在州和其他地理区域的标本数据，并要求馆长批准发送给他们的材料。 材料将由项目技术人员重新装箱和包装，以便运输到每个接收集合。 任何剩余材料将保留在TUBRI的鱼类收集中。

An award is made to Tulane University for moving the University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) herbarium to BRIT. In March 2017, the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) announced that it could no longer keep its ichthyological (fish) and herpetological (amphibian and reptile) research collections, because the space the collections were being temporarily stored in was scheduled to be renovated for another purpose starting in early August 2017. The ULM fish collection, comprising roughly 85,000 lots (jars) representing over one million fish specimens, ranks among the largest fish collections in North America. This project will support the transfer of ownership of the entire ULM fish collection to the Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI); parts of the collection will be transferred to other interested institutions in Louisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. A commercial transportation company will pack and move the entire ULM fish collection to TUBRI. The ULM specimens document the natural heritage of Louisiana and surrounding regions and can provide valuable insight into understanding critical environmental issues affecting the region and the nation, including documenting invasive species, changes affecting water resources, wetlands loss, and ocean acidification.Roughly 13% of the jars of specimens in the ULM fish collection were donated to ULM by Louisiana Tech University in 1999, but were never cataloged in the ULM fish collection database. Data for these lots will be entered into the ULM database, specimen counts will be added to the database for jars missing this information, and curatorial needs of jars (added alcohol, replacement lids) will be met. Once all this work is completed, curators of fish collections at Louisiana State University, Southeastern Louisiana University, Arkansas State University, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and University of Texas, Austin, will be sent data for specimens from their states and other geographic areas, and the curators will be asked to approve material destined to be sent to them. The material will be re-boxed and packed by the project technician for transportation to each of these receiving collections. Any remaining material will be retained in the fish collection at TUBRI.