TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF INSECT COLLECTIONS IN THE U.S. THROUGH THE ENTOMOLOGICAL COLLECTIONS MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

通过昆虫收藏品管理研讨会实现美国昆虫收藏品的可持续管理

• 批准号: 2109428
• 负责人: Jennifer Zaspel
• 金额: $ 9.9万
• 依托单位: Entomological Society of America
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2109428&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: TOWARDS; SUSTAINABLE; MANAGEMENT; INSECT; COLLECTIONS

Natural history collections are an archive of Earth's biodiversity, informing our understanding of the planet and ecological interactions that impact society. Recent global initiatives to digitize biological collections have transformed the scope and scale of how these biorepositories contribute to integrative biological research. Interest in collections and their data is increasing, however much of the workforce capacity remains the same. Entomological collections are especially important because insects represent the most diverse and abundant group of animals with over one million known species. Insects are ubiquitous in our everyday lives and an essential part of most ecosystems. They are also important to human health, as the majority of plant pollinators, disease vectors, and agricultural pests are insects. Collections are organized and maintained only through the specialized knowledge and experience of museum personnel, generally passed directly from one generation to the next, as no formal program has existed to do this across the community. This generational knowledge transfer has been especially important in smaller collections with limited staff, which represent ~70% of all U.S. insect collections. Despite their size, these collections are often extremely valuable due to their strong regional holdings. This effort will produce a comprehensive program to provide formal best-practices training, both in-person and online, to collections personnel, as well as providing much-needed networking opportunities for collections workers across career stages and institutions to share their knowledge and experience with the broader collections' community.This award supports the progressive advancement of the Entomological Collections Management Workshop Series, including virtual participation and material, co-sponsored by the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) and the Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity (SysEB) Section of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). The workshops are scheduled to take place annually in summer 2022 to 2024, with hosting rotating between the Yale Peabody Natural History Museum, Cleveland Museum of Natural History, and Arizona State University. The workshop will be developed as a hybrid virtual and in-person event. During the 3-4 day workshop, participants will receive training in entomological collections management covering a wide range of topics, various topics including policies, specimen handling, curation, conservation, and digitization. This project will encourage the participation of collections staff managers and students associated with smaller collections, as they often have with more limited resources for training and collection development. This workshop will also help fund participation by students and early career researchers, the largest and most diverse (in terms of gender, ethnicity, and socio-economic background) segment of the collections management community. The professional development opportunities provided by this workshop will thus lead to a more highly skilled and integrative community of collections management personnel. The virtual components of this workshop will be shared to the broader community through the ECN website, with the results of in-person workshops also presented at the ECN annual meetings.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.

自然历史收藏是地球生物多样性的档案，让我们了解地球和影响社会的生态相互作用。最近对生物收藏进行数字化的全球倡议改变了这些生物储存库对综合生物学研究作出贡献的范围和规模。对收集和他们的数据的兴趣正在增加，但大部分劳动力能力保持不变。昆虫学收藏尤其重要，因为昆虫代表了最多样化和最丰富的动物群体，拥有100多万个已知物种。昆虫在我们的日常生活中无处不在，也是大多数生态系统的重要组成部分。它们对人类健康也很重要，因为大多数植物传粉者、病媒和农业害虫都是昆虫。藏品的组织和维护只能通过博物馆工作人员的专业知识和经验，通常是直接代代相传，因为整个社区还没有正式的计划来做到这一点。这种代际知识传递在人员有限的小型昆虫收藏中尤其重要，这些收藏约占美国所有昆虫收藏的70%。尽管这些藏品的规模很大，但由于其强大的地区持有量，它们往往非常有价值。这一努力将产生一个全面的计划，为收藏人员提供面对面和在线的正式最佳实践培训，并为不同职业阶段和机构的收藏工作者提供急需的网络机会，以与更广泛的收藏社区分享他们的知识和经验。该奖项支持由昆虫收藏网络(ECN)和美国昆虫学会(ESA)的系统、进化和生物多样性(SysEB)分部共同赞助的昆虫收藏管理研讨会系列的逐步推进，包括虚拟参与和材料。研讨会计划于2022年至2024年夏季举行，在耶鲁皮博迪自然历史博物馆、克利夫兰自然历史博物馆和亚利桑那州立大学之间轮流主办。研讨会将发展为虚拟和面对面相结合的活动。在为期3-4天的研讨会期间，学员将接受昆虫学收藏品管理方面的培训，内容涉及广泛的主题，包括政策、标本处理、馆藏、保护和数字化。该项目将鼓励藏品工作人员管理人员和与较小藏品有关的学生参与，因为他们用于培训和藏品发展的资源往往比较有限。该讲习班还将帮助资助学生和早期职业研究人员的参与，他们是藏品管理界规模最大、最多样化(就性别、种族和社会经济背景而言)的群体。因此，该讲习班提供的专业发展机会将使藏品管理人员拥有更高的技能和更具综合性的群体。本次研讨会的虚拟部分将通过ECN网站分享给更广泛的社区，面对面研讨会的结果也将在ECN年会上公布。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。