RAPID: Securing the LUMCON natural history collection, a vital Gulf Coast resource

RAPID：保护 LUMCON 自然历史收藏，这是墨西哥湾沿岸的重要资源

• 批准号: 2203268
• 负责人: Brian Roberts
• 金额: $ 19.91万
• 依托单位: Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2203268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Securing; LUMCON; natural; history

The Gulf of Mexico supports a wide array of habitats, from wetlands to reefs that maintain high levels of biodiversity, estimated at over 15,000 species; with up to 20% unknown to science. The lack of biodiversity knowledge is significant in the context of this region with frequent hurricanes and human influences, like oil spills, that can impact and often interrupt valuable ecosystem services, including fisheries. Since its founding in 1980, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) has built a marine biodiversity collection over well over 15,000 specimens representing over 500 species. This valuable research and education resource is of value for assessing impacts to the Gulf of Mexico including coastal loss, hurricanes, and oil spills. It represents a substantial set of marine and coastal collections, especially for invertebrates, for the Louisiana coast. The Louisiana portion of the Gulf coast is unique. It is affected by the Mississippi River outflow, extensive wetland systems, the Dead Zone, and human influences due to the higher concentrations of oil and gas refineries and wells. It is also a region affected by severe storms, including hurricanes. And due to building damage during Hurricane Ida, the collections at LUMCON are at risk. This proposal seeks to secure LUMCON’s natural history collections for future research and education. Specifically, the project will secure curatorial staff to aid in conservatory efforts, relocate and secure LUMCON’s natural history collections in a new location, and assess the condition of the current collection and develop and implement a cataloging system to facilitate and inform the strategy for growing the collection. In addition, the project will create a paid minority summer internship program based on collections research. The student will train on collections-based research and learn museum collections methods.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.

墨西哥湾拥有各种各样的栖息地，从湿地到珊瑚礁，保持着高水平的生物多样性，估计有超过15，000种物种;高达20%的物种未知。 在该区域，飓风和石油泄漏等人为影响频繁，可能影响并经常中断包括渔业在内的宝贵生态系统服务，因此缺乏生物多样性知识的情况十分严重。自1980年成立以来，路易斯安那大学海洋联合会（LUMCON）已经建立了一个海洋生物多样性收集超过15，000个标本，代表500多个物种。 这一宝贵的研究和教育资源对评估墨西哥湾的影响具有价值，包括沿海损失、飓风和石油泄漏。它代表了路易斯安那州海岸的大量海洋和沿海动物，特别是无脊椎动物。墨西哥湾沿岸的路易斯安那州是独一无二的。 它受到密西西比河外流、广泛的湿地系统、死区以及由于石油和天然气炼油厂和威尔斯的高度集中而造成的人类影响的影响。它也是一个受包括飓风在内的严重风暴影响的地区。 由于飓风艾达造成的建筑物损坏，LUMCON的藏品处于危险之中。该提案旨在确保LUMCON的自然历史收藏品用于未来的研究和教育。具体而言，该项目将确保策展人员协助温室工作，将LUMCON的自然历史收藏品重新安置和保护在一个新的位置，并评估当前收藏品的状况，开发和实施一个编目系统，以促进和告知增加收藏品的战略。此外，该项目还将根据收藏研究创建一个带薪的少数族裔暑期实习计划。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。