Curation and Securing of the SUNY Oswego Herbarium

几十年来收集和保存的植物标本为当前和未来的研究提供了不可替代的原始资源。此外，随着地球继续面临快速的环境变化和生物多样性的丧失，植物标本收集提供的地理参考历史记录对于促进对环境变化的影响的科学理解是非常宝贵的。不幸的是，如果资源阻碍了机构适当地存储、编目、修复和组织标本或与全球科学界共享数字记录，草药代表的数据宝库往往面临退化或无法用于研究的风险。纽约州立大学奥斯威戈分校的奥斯威戈植物标本馆就是这样一个标本馆，最近被妥善地重新安置在一个新的设施中，但大部分仍未编目，研究人员无法获得。该项目的首要目标是保护和保存奥斯威戈植物标本馆的标本，并通过开源在线数据库广泛提供标本数据。这将为更广泛的科学界提供对奥斯威戈植物标本馆的访问，并确保收藏品的安全，以供未来长期使用。该项目的主要合作伙伴将是20名学生参加一个带薪实习计划，强调来自代表不足的群体的参与，这将通过提供实践培训和网络机会增加多样性、公平性和在标本和博物馆工作人员中的包容性。奥斯威戈植物标本馆的50,000个植物标本代表了180个植物科的至少1,100个物种，从19世纪20年代到今天，起源于除南极洲以外的所有大陆。覆盖范围最广的是纽约州北部地区，该收藏至少包含127种濒危或濒危植物。由于米尔德里德·浮士德博士等女性植物学家做出了重大贡献，奥斯威戈植物标本馆还突出了女性对推进植物学的贡献。为了实现保护标本和扩大获取途径的目标，项目团队将(1)完成标本的管理和修复；(2)对所有标本进行编目；(3)使用高分辨率摄影将藏品数字化；(4)共享开放获取的标本数据，包括东北草药联盟、iDigBio、GBIF和纽约植物地图集。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。

Plant specimens collected and preserved over many decades provide an irreplaceable primary resource for current and future research. Additionally, as Earth continues to face rapid environmental change and biodiversity loss, the geographically referenced historical record provided by plant specimen collections is invaluable to advancing scientific understanding of the impacts of environmental change. Unfortunately, the trove of data herbaria represent is often at risk of degradation or unavailable for study if resources have prevented institutions from properly housing, cataloging, repairing, and organizing specimens or sharing digital records with the global scientific community. The Oswego Herbarium at the State University of New York at Oswego is one such herbarium, which has recently been properly re-housed in a new facility but remains largely un-cataloged and unavailable to researchers. The overarching goal of this project is to protect and preserve the Oswego Herbarium’s specimens and to make specimen data broadly available via open-source online databases. This will provide the broader scientific community access to the Oswego Herbarium and secure the collection for long-term future use. Key partners for this project will be 20 students in a paid internship program emphasizing participation from underrepresented groups, which will increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the herbarium and museum workforce by providing hands-on training and networking opportunities. The Oswego Herbarium’s 50,000 plant specimens represent at least 1,100 species in 180 plant families, dating from the 1820s to today, and originating from all continents but Antarctica. The most extensive coverage is from the upstate New York region, and the collection contains at least 127 threatened or endangered plant species. With substantial contributions made by female botanists such as Dr. Mildred Faust, the Oswego Herbarium also highlights the contributions women have made to advancing botanical science. To achieve the goal of securing the collection and broadening access, the project team will (1) complete specimen curation and repair; (2) catalog all specimens; (3) digitize the collection using high-resolution photography; and (4) share digitized specimen data on open-access repositories including the Consortium of Northeastern Herbaria, iDigBio, GBIF, and the New York Flora Atlas.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.