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

CSBR：自然历史：南复临安息日会大学植物标本室的修复、数字化和整合到田纳西大学查塔努加植物标本室

• 批准号: 1756382
• 负责人: Joey Shaw
• 金额: $ 3.05万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Chattanooga
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756382&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Repair; digitization

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.

该奖项将支持南部复临大学（SAU）的标本集成到田纳西大学查塔努加（UTC）植物标本室系列的。 UTC植物标本室是来自田纳西州，佐治亚州西北部和阿拉巴马州东北部的干燥和归档植物标本的中等大小，但在科学和教育上积极收集。 大约9,500个标本的SAU集合代表了来自美国和加拿大的数千种物种。 通过SAU教授的历史传教工作，还从菲律宾，肯尼亚，黎巴嫩和伊拉克的阿布格莱布等国际地点收集了标本。 UTC的工人将修复损坏的标本，并将SAU藏品固定在UTC繁荣的收藏中。 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，教育者，保护主义者和业余爱好者。 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作为培训和教育年轻的植物学家和保护主义者的设施。 2014年，CA的标本室收藏量很大。来自田纳西州克利夫兰南部复临大学（SAU）的9,500个标本被转移到UCHT。 转移后，分诊的工作发现昆虫受到了广泛的破坏，胶水失败和存储不当。 但是，它也揭示了该系列的国家和国际广度。 除了北美之外，还从肯尼亚，黎巴嫩，菲律宾和伊拉克观察到标本，这些标本可能代表了其他美国收藏中不存在的独特生物收藏。 这项工作将支持转移后的策划，维修，保存，集成到UCHT和SAU集合的数字化。 UTC的学生将接受标本维修，数字化，使收集数据在线可用的努力以及Collections Curation培训。 该系列的数据将通过Sernec，Symbiota，Idigbio和GBIF共享。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响评估标准，认为值得通过评估来获得支持。