Facilities Support for the University of Colorado Herbarium

科罗拉多大学博物馆标本馆有435,000个已编目的标本。它是科罗拉多州主要的植物学标本和信息储存库，维管植物、地衣、苔藓、真菌和藻类之间的代表性平衡。虽然它的重点是科罗拉多州的植物区系，但落基山脉地区植物地理的地史性质要求它在其他地区，特别是中亚、高加索、北冰洋美洲和堪察加的阿拉泰地区，拓展并发展卓越。馆长的实地工作使该标本馆成为国际领先的地衣和苔藓植物储存库，包括加拉帕戈斯群岛、澳大利亚和新几内亚的地衣和苔藓植物。该标本馆被美国植物分类学家协会的一个委员会列为国家资源标本馆。该项目提供资金，用机械辅助的移动过道压实机系统取代标本馆的静态过道布置。由于箱子和存储区域几乎填满，因此需要压路机。在过去的40年里，标本馆从原来的30,000个标本以平均每年10,000个新标本的速度增长。

The University of Colorado Museum Herbarium contains 435,000 catalogued specimens. It is the principal state repository of botanical specimens and information for Colorado, with representation balanced between vascular plants, lichens, bryophytes, fungi and algae. While its emphasis centers on the Colorado flora, the geohistorical nature of the phytogeography of the Rocky Mountain area has required it to reach out and develop excellence in other areas, particularly the Altai of Middle Asia, the Caucasus, and Arctic America and Kamtchatka. The curator's field work has made the herbarium a leading international repository for lichens and bryophytes, including those of the Galapagos Islands, Australia and New Guinea. The herbarium is listed as a National Resource Herbarium by a committee of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists. This project provides funds to replace the static-aisle arrangement of the herbarium with a mechanically-assisted, mobile-aisle compactor system. Compactors are needed because of nearly filled cases and storage area. Over the past forty years, the herbarium has grown from the original 30,000 specimens at an average rate of 10,000 new specimens per year.