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.

该奖项将支持从南方基督复临安息日会大学（SAU）到田纳西大学查塔努加（UTC）标本馆收藏标本的整合。 UTC植物标本馆是一个中等规模的，但科学和教育活动收集干燥和存档的植物标本从田纳西州，西北格鲁吉亚，东北亚拉巴马。 SAU收集了大约9，500个标本，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，标本也从包括菲律宾，肯尼亚，黎巴嫩和伊拉克阿布格莱布在内的国际地点收集。 UTC的工作人员将修复损坏的标本，保护SAU的藏品，并将其整合到UTC的繁荣藏品中。 数字数据集将通过iDigBio（iDigBio.org）等在线公共门户网站向研究人员、教育工作者、自然资源保护主义者和业余爱好者提供。田纳西大学查塔努加分校（UCHT）的植物标本馆在田纳西州和南阿巴拉契亚山脉被公认为记录田纳西州植物群的领先资源，将田纳西州的植物标本馆收藏数字化，作为东南地区专业知识和收藏网络（SERNEC）的一部分，通过在线门户网站访问植物学数据，包括田纳西州/肯塔基州植物地图集，并作为培训和教育年轻野外植物学家和自然资源保护者的设施。 在2014年，一个憔悴的植物标本集ca。来自田纳西州克利夫兰的南复临大学（SAU）的9，500份标本被转移到UCHT。 转移后，分类工作显示，昆虫，失败的胶水，和储存不当的广泛损害。 然而，它也揭示了国家和国际范围的收集。 在北美以外，从肯尼亚、黎巴嫩、菲律宾和伊拉克观察到的标本可能代表了美国其他标本中不存在的独特生物标本。 这一努力将支持转移后的策展，修复，保存，整合到UCHT，以及SAU收藏的数字化。 UTC的学生将接受标本修复，数字化，在线提供馆藏数据和馆藏策展方面的培训。 该奖项反映了NSF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。