CSBR: Natural History: Repair, digitization, and integration of the Southern Adventist University herbarium into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga herbarium

该奖项将支持将南方复临大学（SAU）的标本整合到田纳西大学查塔努加分校（UTC）的植物标本馆收藏中。UTC植物标本馆是一个中等规模，但科学和教育活跃的干燥和存档植物标本从田纳西州，乔治亚州西北部和阿拉巴马州东北部的收集。SAU收集了大约9500个标本，代表了来自美国和加拿大的数千个物种。通过SAU教授的历史传教工作，还从菲律宾，肯尼亚，黎巴嫩和伊拉克阿布格莱布等国际地点收集了标本。UTC的工作人员将修复受损的标本，并确保SAU的收藏，并将其整合到UTC的繁荣收藏中。这些数字数据集将通过iDigBio （iDigBio.org）等在线公共门户网站提供给研究人员、教育工作者、环保人士和业余爱好者。田纳西大学查塔努加分校的植物标本室（UCHT）在田纳西州和南阿巴拉契亚地区被公认为记录田纳西州植物的主要资源，作为东南地区专业知识和收藏网络（SERNEC）的一部分，将田纳西州的植物标本室馆藏数字化，使植物学数据可以通过在线门户访问，包括田纳西/肯塔基植物图集，作为培训和教育年轻的野外植物学家和自然资源保护主义者的设施。2014年，田纳西州克利夫兰的南方复临大学（SAU）的一个大约9500个标本的植物标本馆藏品被转移到UCHT。转移后，分类工作显示昆虫、胶水失效和储存不当造成了大面积的损坏。然而，它也揭示了国内和国际范围的收藏。除北美外，还在肯尼亚、黎巴嫩、菲律宾和伊拉克观察到标本，这些标本可能代表了美国其他标本中没有的独特生物标本。这项工作将支持转移后的策展、修复、保存、整合到UCHT和SAU收藏的数字化。联合技术大学的学生将接受标本修复、数字化、在线提供馆藏数据和馆藏管理方面的培训。收集的数据将通过SERNEC、Symbiota、iDigBio和GBIF共享。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the integration of specimens from the Southern Adventist University (SAU) into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Herbarium collection. The UTC herbarium is a moderately-sized, but scientifically and educationally active collection of dried and archived plant specimens from Tennessee, northwest Georgia, and northeast Alabama. The SAU collection of approximately 9,500 specimens represents thousands of species from across the US and Canada. Through historical missionary work of SAU professors, specimens were also collected from international locations including Philippines, Kenya, Lebanon, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Workers at the UTC will repair damaged specimens and secure the SAU collection and integrate it into a thriving collection at UTC. The digital data set will be made available to researchers, educators, conservationists, and hobbyists through online public portals like iDigBio (iDigBio.org). The Herbarium at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UCHT) is recognized across Tennessee and in the Southern Appalachians as a leading resource documenting Tennessee's state flora, for digitizing Tennessee's herbarium collections as part of the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC), for making botanical data accessible through online portals, including the Tennessee/Kentucky Plant Atlas, and as a facility to train and educate young field botanists and conservationists. In 2014, a languishing herbarium collection of ca. 9,500 specimens from Southern Adventist University (SAU) in Cleveland, Tennessee was transferred to UCHT. After transfer, triage work revealed extensive damage from insects, failing glue, and improper storage. However, it also revealed the national and international breadth of the collection. Beyond North America, specimens were observed from Kenya, Lebanon, Philippines, and Iraq, potentially representing unique biological collections not present in other US collections. This effort will support the post-transfer curation, repair, preservation, integration into UCHT, and digitization of the SAU collection. Students at UTC will be trained on specimen repair, digitization, efforts to make collections data available online, and collections curation. Data from this collection will be shared through SERNEC, Symbiota, iDigBio, and GBIF.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.