Modernization of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection

俄勒冈州立大学的俄勒冈州立节肢动物收藏馆（OSAC）是太平洋西北地区（PNW）最大的昆虫收藏馆，收藏了大约300万个标本。这些标本不仅是PNW昆虫多样性研究的基础，而且还为区域林业、农业和保护利益相关者提供了有价值的信息和参考资料。该项目为OSAC安装了一个压缩系统和新的机柜，充分利用了建筑的全面改造，并完成了OSAC向现代化、安全的存储库的过渡，这将使五十年的研究、发展和与不同社区的积极参与成为可能。该项目还将重新安置和改进藏品的几个部分，从而消除阻碍策展和研究的实质性基础设施限制。学生，包括那些在STEM中代表性不足的群体，将通过这些策展项目和协助创建有关藏品及其标本的公共展览，参与OSAC的复兴。该项目将安装19节可移动车厢，使OSAC能够安置在我们新装修的存储室中。策展项目将集中于地面甲虫、刷足蝴蝶、真正的虫子和真正的苍蝇，并将导致它们被重新安置在新的橱柜、抽屉和单元托盘中。作为项目的一部分，整个藏品将被深度冷冻，并制定了新的标本处理工作流程，消除了历史上困扰藏品的害虫挑战。一系列的社区博物馆活动、学生策展项目和本科课程，将以一种创新的讲故事的方式吸引学生和公众，鼓励参与者探索和受到与博物馆标本相关的多方面信息的启发。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC) at Oregon State University is the largest insect collection in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), and houses about three million specimens. These specimens serve as the basis for insect diversity research in the PNW and additionally provide valuable information and reference material for regional stakeholders in forestry, agriculture, and conservation. This project installs a compactor system and new cabinets for the OSAC, taking advantage of a full building remodel, and completing OSAC’s transition into a modern, secure repository that will enable fifty years of research, growth, and active engagement with diverse communities. This project will also rehouse and improve several portions of the collection, thereby removing substantial infrastructural constraints impeding curation and research. Students, including those in groups underrepresented in STEM, will participate in this reinvigoration of the OSAC through these curatorial projects and through assisting in the creation of public displays about the collection and its specimens.The project will install nineteen movable carriages, allowing OSAC to be housed in our newly renovated repository room. Curatorial projects will focus on ground beetles, brush-footed butterflies, true bugs, and true flies, and will result in their being rehoused in new cabinets, drawers, and unit trays. The entire collection will be deep-frozen as part of the project, and a new specimen-handling workflow developed, eradicating pest challenges that have historically plagued the collection. A series of community museum events, student curatorial projects, and an undergraduate course, will engage students and the public with the collection in an innovative story-telling approach whereby participants are encouraged to explore and be inspired by the multifaceted information associated with museum specimens.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.