CSBR: Natural History: Improvement of the Mississippi Entomological Museum for organization of collection and digitization of specimen data

CSBR：自然历史：改进密西西比昆虫博物馆，以组织标本数据的收集和数字化

• 批准号: 1756467
• 负责人: JoVonn Hill
• 金额: $ 29.21万
• 依托单位: Mississippi State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-01 至 2021-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Improvement; Mississippi

The Mississippi Entomological Museum at Mississippi State University holds more than 1.6 million research specimens from all 50 states of the U.S. and 48 other countries. This research resource is especially important in documenting the insect diversity of the southern Coastal Plain, including many imperiled habitats. The collection also holds specimens of disease vectors as well as agricultural and forestry pests that have been documented in Mississippi for the past 120 years, and these specimens are important for evaluating their past, current, and future distributions. The museum's identification center provides early detection of invasive species that threaten the biosecurity of food, fiber, and forests in 13 states. The acquisition of specimens from these activities has resulted in unique holdings among biological collections in the U.S., and these include major collections of ants and grasshoppers. More than 100 species new to science have been described based on specimens held in the collection with many more still to be described. During the past five years, the museum has hosted 112 visiting researchers from 42 institutions in 25 states and five other countries. Concurrently, the museum has an active education and outreach program with curricula designed for elementary students and table events involving displays and informative hand-outs provided at public events. The annual growth of collection holdings during the past five years has approached 30% because of fieldwork, donations, trap samples from other states, and acquisition of other institutional collections. At present the museum is over full capacity, with cabinets holding specimens limiting access in hallways and offices, and no space is available for future additions of specimens.This project has three objectives. The first is to expand storage space for research specimens by acquisition of a compactor system that will include moveable carriages on rails that hold cabinets. This compactor system will provide an estimated 30% increase in capacity. The second objective is to resolve the current hazards of storage of flammable preservatives in a multi-use building that includes classrooms for students. Almost 400,000 curated specimens and a large number of bulk samples are currently stored in ethanol and held in various rooms and hallways (some adjacent to classrooms) of the Clay Lyle Entomology Building. This concentration of specimens in alcohol has presented a safety hazard because the volatility of the preservative. The acquisition of a walk-in refrigerated unit, located outside the building, would alleviate the current hazards of storing specimens in ethanol in the building. The third objective will be the digitization of specimen label data for ants and grasshoppers. Both ants and grasshoppers have ecological and economic significance to the public, especially for invasive species of ants. The museum has the third largest collections of both groups of insects in eastern U.S., but specimen data are currently unavailable to others. The digitization effort will make these data available to researchers and the public through data sharing with iDigBio (iDigBio.org) and other global resources such as the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org).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.

密西西比州立大学的密西西比州昆虫学博物馆拥有来自美国所有50个州和其他48个国家的160万多个研究标本。 该研究资源在记录南部沿海平原的昆虫多样性（包括许多危及的栖息地）方面尤其重要。 该系列还拥有疾病媒介的标本以及过去120年来密西西比州已记录的农业和林木害虫，这些标本对于评估其过去，当前和将来的分布非常重要。 博物馆的识别中心提供了对威胁13个州食品，纤维和森林生物安全性的入侵物种的早期发现。 从这些活动中获取标本已导致了美国的生物收藏中的独特持有，其中包括大量的蚂蚁和蚱hoppers。 已经根据该系列中的标本描述了100多种新的科学物种，其中还有更多待描述。 在过去的五年中，博物馆在25个州和其他5个国家 /地区接待了来自42个机构的112位来访研究人员。 同时，博物馆通过专为小学生和餐桌活动而设计的课程进行了积极的教育和外展计划，这些活动涉及展览和公众活动提供的信息。 由于现场工作，捐赠，其他州的陷阱样本以及收购其他机构收藏的情况，在过去五年中收集股份的年度增长接近了30％。 目前，博物馆的全部负荷超过，橱柜持有标本限制在走廊和办公室的访问，并且没有空间可用于将来的标本添加。该项目具有三个目标。 首先是通过获取将包括容纳橱柜的轨道上的可移动马车来扩大研究标本的存储空间。 这种压实系统将估计容量增加30％。 第二个目标是解决当前在包括学生教室在内的多用途建筑中储存易燃防腐剂的危害。 目前，近400,000个策划的标本和大量散装样品存储在乙醇中，并在Clay Lyle昆虫学大楼的各个房间和走廊（有些与教室相邻）中放置。 酒精中这种标本的浓度引起了安全危害，因为防腐剂的波动性。 收购位于大楼外的一个步入式冷藏单元将减轻当前在乙醇中存储标本的危害。 第三个目标将是蚂蚁和蚱hoppers的标本标签数据的数字化。 蚂蚁和蚱hopper都对公众都具有生态和经济意义，尤其是对蚂蚁的入侵物种。 博物馆在美国东部拥有两组昆虫的第三大收藏，但目前其他标本数据对其他昆虫都无法使用。 数字化工作将通过与IDIGBIO（IDIGBIO.ORG）和其他全球资源（例如全球生物多样性信息设施（GBIF.org））通过数据共享（GBIF.org）来向研究人员和公众提供这些数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的影响，通过评估值得通过评估来获得支持。

项目成果

An Annotated List of the Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Mississippi

密西西比蚂蚁（膜翅目：蚁科）注释列表

• DOI: 10.3157/061.147.0108
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Transactions of the American Entomological Society
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: MacGown, Joe A.;Hill, Jovonn G.;Brown, Richard L.;Lewis, James G.
• 通讯作者: Lewis, James G.

An Updated List of Ants of Alabama (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with New State Records

阿拉巴马州蚂蚁（膜翅目：蚁科）更新列表及新州记录

• DOI: 10.3157/061.147.0409
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Transactions of the American Entomological Society
• 影响因子: 0.6
• 作者: Macgown, Joe A.;Booher, Doug;Richter, Heath;Wetterer, James K.;Hill, Jovonn G.
• 通讯作者: Hill, Jovonn G.

The case of the missing Hesperotettix: and how it led to the rescue of an important Orthopteran collection.

赫斯珀罗提克斯失踪案：以及它如何导致重要的直翅类收藏品的救援。

• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: Metaleptea
• 作者: Hill, JoVonn