Critical improvement of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium: securing and enabling access to the world's largest collection of plants in the Rocky Mountain region

落基山植物标本馆的重大改进：确保并能够访问落基山地区世界上最大的植物收藏

• 批准号: 2234631
• 负责人: David Tank
• 金额: $ 90.86万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-15 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2234631&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Critical; improvement; Rocky; Mountain; Herbarium

The Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) is among the largest public university herbaria in the United States. With over 1 million accessioned specimens, it contains the most comprehensive collection of Rocky Mountain plants in the world. The RM has outgrown its space and the bulk of these specimens are inaccessible to researchers. Rapid growth of the RM is the result of a large-scale inventory program focused on documenting the flora of the Rocky Mountains. This project will provide for greatly increased accessibility of RM specimens and associated data, that are used for research, teaching, and outreach. More than 200 herbarium cabinets will be added to secure over 420,000 specimens and allow for incorporation of the Central Wyoming College Herbarium. A key activity will be to image all mounted specimens that have not yet been imaged, resulting in a total 700,000 completely digitized specimens that will substantially increase accessibility of collections data from Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains that are widely used by the public and land management agencies. The project also includes a summer internship program, to train the next generation of herbarium scientists in both traditional and modern aspects of specimen curation and specimen-based research.The University of Wyoming Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) is in critical need of expansion to secure the large number of specimens that are currently inaccessible and at risk. In addition, the Central Wyoming College Herbarium (CWC), a regional collection of ca. 45,000 specimens shuttered since the retirement of its faculty curator, will be incorporated. Through the addition of the herbarium cabinets, the RM will secure specimens that are currently in cardboard boxes on the tops of existing cabinets and address a backlog of 250,000 specimens that are already mounted but inaccessible to researchers. Specimens will be imaged, including those in the CWC herbarium, to provide access to completely digitized specimen records or nearly 700,000 specimens from Wyoming and the Rocky Mountains. Data will be made available through the RM specimen portal, regional, national, and international data aggregators and consortia including iDigBio.org. In addition, this project will serve as a platform for a summer Rocky Mountain Herbarium Internship with the goal of providing a foundational knowledge of herbarium management, curation, and research through a directed, hands-on experience.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.

落基山植物标本馆（RM）是美国最大的公立大学植物标本馆之一。 拥有超过100万个标本，它包含了世界上最全面的落基山脉植物收藏。 RM已经超出了它的空间，研究人员无法接近这些标本的大部分。 快速增长的RM是一个大规模的库存计划的结果，重点是记录落基山脉的植物群。该项目将大大提高用于研究、教学和外展的RM标本和相关数据的可访问性。 将增加200多个植物标本室，以确保超过420,000个标本，并允许中央怀俄明州学院植物标本室的合并。 一项关键活动将是对所有尚未成像的装裱标本进行成像，从而产生总共70万个完全数字化的标本，这将大大增加公众和土地管理机构广泛使用的来自怀俄明州和落基山脉的收藏数据的可访问性。 该项目还包括一个暑期实习计划，培训标本馆科学家的传统和现代标本策展和以科罗拉多州为基础的研究方面的下一代。怀俄明州大学落基山标本馆（RM）急需扩大，以确保目前无法获得和处于危险之中的大量标本。 此外，中央怀俄明州学院植物标本馆（CWC），一个区域性的收集ca。45，000个标本自其教师馆长退休以来关闭，将被纳入。通过增加植物标本柜，RM将确保目前在现有橱柜顶部的纸板箱中的标本，并解决已经安装但研究人员无法获得的25万件积压标本。 标本将被成像，包括那些在化学武器公约标本馆，提供访问完全数字化的标本记录或近70万标本从怀俄明州和落基山脉。 数据将通过RM标本门户网站，区域，国家和国际数据聚合器和财团，包括iDigBio.org提供。此外，该项目将作为夏季落基山植物标本馆实习的平台，其目标是通过指导，该奖项反映了NSF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。