RAPID: CSBR: Support to Restore the Scientific Collections Damaged in the Bahamas during Hurricane Dorian

RAPID：CSBR：支持恢复巴哈马多里安飓风期间受损的科学藏品

• 批准号: 2010764
• 负责人: Michelle LeFebvre
• 金额: $ 7.08万
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2010764&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; CSBR; Support; Restore; Scientific

On 1-2 September 2019, the most powerful storm ever to strike land in the North Atlantic, Hurricane Dorian, leveled Marsh Harbour, Abaco, which had been the third largest community in The Bahamas. This project provides critical support to restore the unique vertebrate fossil collection that had existed in the National Museum of The Bahamas in Marsh Harbour. Dorian destroyed the building housing this collection, which had been assembled over 15 years by Curator Nancy Albury and scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (UF). Damage from wind and water affects about 40% of the specimens and about 60% of the specimen labels. Much of the material is from coastal localities destroyed during Dorian; all that we ever will know about these prehistoric sites depends on the damaged collections. The project will repair, curate, and database the collection, thereby restoring accessibility to the global research community. Ongoing multi-disciplinary research using this collection has revised concepts of natural and cultural history of Caribbean islands, including establishing the timing of long-term faunal change (extinctions, introductions), and placing both living and extinct species (frogs, tortoises, crocodiles, lizards, snakes, birds, bats, rodents) in rigorous environmental and cultural contexts. A diverse group of UF undergraduate and graduate students will participate in all activities involving the collection, now housed entirely at UF. When the hurricane struck, about 50% of the collection already resided at UF. Catalogued specimens will be fully searchable in the UF Vertebrate Paleontology database.This project will rehabilitate, both physically and digitally, the unique vertebrate fossil collection that was badly damaged by Hurricane Dorian at the National Museum of The Bahamas (NMB) in Marsh Harbour in September 2019. This collection (from 9 cultural and 31 non-cultural prehistoric sites on 14 different Bahamian islands) had been compiled by Curator Nancy Albury and scientists from the Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida (UF). No research or outreach will be possible until the collection is rehabilitated. Much of the material is from coastal localities destroyed during Dorian; anything that we ever will know about these prehistoric sites depends on the damaged collections. The project will repair, curate, and database the damaged specimens and labels, thus making it available once again to the research community. Multi-disciplinary research based on this collection has featured genetic (including aDNA), morphological, stratigraphic, and radiocarbon analyses that have established the timing of long-term faunal change (extinctions, introductions), and placed both living and extinct species of vertebrates in rigorous phylogenetic, environmental, and cultural contexts. At UF, diverse project staff will clean, repair, and database the specimens, generate new labels, curate them in new cabinetry, and do web-based outreach. The NMB Excel database will be converted to Specify software in the UF Vertebrate Paleontology database (https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertepaleo-search). The cultural specimen records also will be entered in Re:Discovery, the curation and collection management database for such collections at UF. Through Specify, the specimen data from the salvaged collections will be shared and made publicly available through 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.

2019年9月1日至2日，有史以来袭击北大西洋陆地的最强大风暴多利安飓风将巴哈马第三大社区阿巴科的马什港夷为平地。该项目为恢复位于马什港的巴哈马国家博物馆的独特脊椎动物化石收藏提供了关键支持。多里安摧毁了这座收藏品的建筑，这座建筑是由佛罗里达大学（UF）佛罗里达自然历史博物馆的馆长南希·奥尔伯里和科学家们历时15年组装而成的。风和水的破坏影响了约40%的样本和约60%的样本标签。大部分材料来自多利安时期被摧毁的沿海地区;我们对这些史前遗址的所有了解都取决于受损的收藏品。该项目将修复，管理和数据库收集，从而恢复全球研究界的访问。正在进行的多学科研究使用这些收集修订了加勒比岛屿的自然和文化历史的概念，包括建立长期动物群变化的时间（繁殖，引进），并将生活和灭绝的物种（青蛙，乌龟，鳄鱼，蜥蜴，蛇，鸟类，蝙蝠，啮齿动物）置于严格的环境和文化背景中。UF本科生和研究生的多元化群体将参加所有涉及收集的活动，现在完全住在UF。当飓风来袭时，大约50%的收藏品已经在佛罗里达大学。目录标本将在UF脊椎动物古生物学数据库中完全搜索。该项目将恢复，物理和数字，在马什港的巴哈马国家博物馆（NMB）在2019年9月被飓风多利安严重损坏的独特脊椎动物化石收藏。这一系列（来自14个不同巴哈马岛屿上的9个文化和31个非文化史前遗址）是由佛罗里达大学（UF）佛罗里达自然历史博物馆的馆长南希·奥尔伯里和科学家汇编的。在恢复收藏品之前，不可能进行研究或推广。大部分材料来自多利安时期被摧毁的沿海地区;我们对这些史前遗址的任何了解都取决于受损的收藏品。该项目将修复，管理和数据库损坏的标本和标签，从而使其再次提供给研究界。多学科研究的基础上收集的特点是遗传（包括aDNA），形态，地层和放射性碳分析，建立了长期动物群变化的时间（灭绝，引进），并将活的和灭绝的脊椎动物物种在严格的系统发育，环境和文化背景。在UF，不同的项目工作人员将清洁，修复和数据库的标本，产生新的标签，在新的橱柜策展他们，并做基于网络的推广。NMB Excel数据库将转换为UF古脊椎动物数据库（https：//www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/vertepaleo-search）中的Specify软件。文化标本记录也将进入Re：Discovery，UF此类收藏品的策展和收藏管理数据库。通过Specify，将通过iDigBio.org共享和公开提供从抢救收集的标本数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。