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CSBR: Natural History: Consolidating, modernizing and harnessing the full potential of two herbaria collections at New Mexico State University

CSBR：自然历史：巩固、现代化和充分利用新墨西哥州立大学两个植物标本馆藏品的潜力

基本信息

批准号：
1756512
负责人：
Sara Fuentes-Soriano
金额：
$ 42.3万
依托单位：
New Mexico 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：
2018-04-01 至 2022-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756512&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CSBR Natural History Consolidating modernizing

项目摘要

New Mexico has five major plant museums or herbaria, which contain a combined 300,000 specimens of dried, pressed plants that are invaluable scientific resources used to promote education, research and public engagement. More than 30% (or 120,000) of these unique specimens are housed in two herbaria at the New Mexico State University (NMSU), one of which is the State's oldest herbarium. Together the NMSU herbaria represent the premier plant reference resource for the southern half of New Mexico, adjacent states, and northern Mexico. The goals of the project are to consolidate the NMSU herbaria, modernize their collections data management infrastructure, and update their management procedures, ultimately preserving the collections long-term, while broadening the data accessibility for education, research, and public use. With a multidisciplinary team of botanical researchers and local science educators, a series of academic and outreach initiatives will be implemented to increase literacy in the plant sciences within different sectors of the population. At NMSU, an official Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI), researchers will pursue the recruitment and engagement of students, using hands-on experiences aimed at the care, protection and use of herbarium specimens and their associated data. Skills learned will improve participation in further education and training opportunities (e.g., graduate school) in STEM fields, while increasing downstream employment prospects. Through partnership with a local scientific education non-profit organization, the project will develop comprehensive botanical outreach materials to increase awareness and interest in natural history collections, plant biology and biodiversity, and biogeography among at least 1,500 K-12 students in an underserved Hispanic region located in southern New Mexico.Activities and expected outcomes include: 1) physical preservation, curation, and integration of herbarium specimens into a unified online digital herbarium (e.g., all specimens databased, barcoded, and imaged), 2) update of currently insecure, disparate databases of the herbaria into a single modern natural history collection management system, 3) acquisition of specimen data from a backlog of important uncurated specimens, 4) development of comprehensive botanical outreach and educational kits for local K-12 students, 5) training of undergraduate research assistants, and 6) implementation of professional workshops, and a crowdsourcing online campaign, all specifically tailored to a wide variety of stakeholders (e.g., students via NMSU's Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies, curators of other natural history collections on campus, land managers and owners, researchers, and citizen scientists). The collaborative nature of the project across campus and the region leverages knowledge and expertise in efficient and exciting directions, creating new research and outreach opportunities that make use of these important herbarium collections and their valuable and unique biodiversity information. Specimen data will be shared with and made available through iDigBio (idigbio.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.

新墨西哥州有五个主要的植物博物馆或植物标本馆，其中包含了30万个干燥的植物标本，这些标本是用于促进教育，研究和公众参与的宝贵科学资源。超过30%（或120，000）的这些独特的标本被安置在两个标本馆在新墨西哥州州立大学（NMSU），其中一个是国家最古老的标本馆。NMSU的植物标本馆代表了新墨西哥州南半部、相邻各州和北方墨西哥的首要植物参考资源。该项目的目标是巩固NMSU植物标本馆，使其馆藏数据管理基础设施现代化，并更新其管理程序，最终长期保存馆藏，同时扩大教育，研究和公共使用的数据可访问性。在一个由植物学研究人员和当地科学教育工作者组成的多学科小组的帮助下，将实施一系列学术和外联举措，以提高不同阶层人口对植物科学的认识。在NMSU，一个官方的西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），研究人员将追求学生的招聘和参与，使用旨在护理，保护和使用植物标本及其相关数据的实践经验。所学到的技能将改善对继续教育和培训机会的参与（例如，研究生院）在STEM领域，同时增加下游就业前景。通过与当地一个科学教育非营利组织合作，该项目将开发全面的植物学宣传材料，以提高新墨西哥州南部一个服务不足的西班牙裔地区至少1,500名K-12学生对自然历史收藏、植物生物学和生物多样性以及植物地理学的认识和兴趣。1）植物标本馆标本的物理保存、策展和整合到统一的在线数字植物标本馆（例如，所有标本数据库，条形码，和成像），2）更新目前不安全的，不同的数据库的标本馆到一个单一的现代自然历史收集管理系统，3）收购标本数据从积压的重要未经策展的标本，4）发展全面的植物推广和教育工具包，为当地K-12学生，5）培训本科研究助理，和6）举办专业讲习班和网上众包活动，所有这些都是专门为各种利益攸关方量身定制的（例如，学生通过NMSU的博物馆研究的研究生证书，在校园内，土地管理者和业主，研究人员和公民科学家的其他自然历史收藏馆馆长）。该项目在校园和该地区的协作性质利用知识和专业知识在高效和令人兴奋的方向，创造新的研究和推广机会，利用这些重要的植物标本馆收藏及其宝贵和独特的生物多样性信息。样本数据将通过iDigBio（idigbio.org）共享和提供。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。