Compactorization, Reorganization, and Electronic Cataloging of the University of Hawaii Herbarium Collections.

在威尔·麦克莱奇博士的指导下，夏威夷大学获得了一笔赠款，以部分支持夏威夷大学植物标本馆收藏品的压缩和重组。夏威夷大学马诺阿分校支持两种小型草本植物：人类白细胞抗原(H·里昂植物园植物标本馆)和植物系植物标本馆(HAW)。这些草本植物总共包含约42,000个已安装(和14,000个未安装)的标本，主要来自太平洋岛屿。标本包括夏威夷群岛、萨摩亚、汤加和马绍尔群岛的整个植物区系，以及稀有和濒危物种的例子。虽然HAW是中太平洋地区最古老的植物标本馆，但在过去20年的大部分时间里，它一直没有得到充分利用。在过去的20年里，HL A一直处于不活跃状态，只用作存放在大学植物园中的活植物凭证的储存库。由于其糟糕的存储设施，HLA一直处于丢失的风险中，因此已被临时转移到HAW。山楂的设施很好，但空间非常有限，特别是在同一区域引入了人类白细胞抗原。该项目将拯救人类白细胞抗原标本馆，缓解HAW和人类白细胞抗原组合标本馆的过度拥挤，使标本植物重新焕发活力，使其成为夏威夷和太平洋地区的植物研究和教育中心。该项目的目标是将人类白细胞抗原和HAW植物组合成夏威夷大学校园内的一个功能单元，并通过安装紧凑的存储系统来最大化和重组工作空间。植物馆将向公众开放，植物系将提供人手，引导参观者回答有关植物身份和环境的问题。重组后的植物馆将能够更好地支持夏威夷大学的教学和研究任务，特别是支持系统学、生态学、民族植物学和保护生物学的课程和研究。本科生和研究生将受益于接触到稀有和濒危物种的标本以及各个太平洋岛屿的完整植物区系。拟议活动产生的更广泛的影响包括每年由与该草本植物相关的教师教授的700多名学生对稀有和濒危植物物种和自然环境的更多欣赏。向公众提供可获得信息的活性草药将使选民和决策者能够了解植物。今天，几乎每一本生物学入门课本都包括夏威夷动植物有趣的进化过程的例子，以及对这些生物构成的保护威胁。拟议中的项目将增强夏威夷大学研究人员研究植物进化的能力，并致力于创造性地保护美国第50个州与世隔绝的岛屿上的独特植物。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Hawaii under the direction of Dr. Will McClatchey for partial support of Compactorization and Reorganization of the University of Hawaii Herbarium Collections. The University of Hawaii at Manoa supports two small herbaria, HLA (H. Lyon Arboretum herbarium) and HAW (Department of Botany herbarium). Together these herbaria contain ~42,000 mounted (and 14,000 unmounted) specimens mostly from the Pacific Islands. Specimens include the entire floras of the Hawaiian Islands, Samoa, Tonga, and the Marshall Islands with examples of rare and endangered species. Although HAW is the oldest herbarium in the Central Pacific region, it has been underutilized for most of the last 20 years. HLA has been inactive for the last 20 years with use only as a repository for vouchers of living plants deposited in the University's Arboretum. HLA has been at-risk of being lost because of its poor storage facility and thus has been temporarily moved into HAW. HAW is housed in a good facility but has very limited space, especially with the introduction of HLA into the same area. This project will rescue the HLA herbarium, relieve overcrowding in the combined HAW and HLA herbarium, rejuvenate the herbaria and enable them to become a center for research and education on plants in Hawaii and the Pacific region. The goals of the project are to combine the HLA and HAW herbaria into one functional unit on the University of Hawaii campus and maximize and reorganize workspace through installation of a compact storage system. The herbarium will become open to the public with staffing provided by the Department of Botany in order to guide visitors seeking to address questions about plant identities and environments.The reorganized herbarium will be better able to support the teaching and research missions of the University of Hawaii, particularly supporting courses and research in systematics, ecology, ethnobotany, and conservation biology. Undergraduate and graduate students will benefit from access to specimens of rare and endangered species as well as complete floras of various Pacific Islands.The broader impacts resulting from the proposed activity include a greater appreciation for rare and endangered plant species and natural environments by the over 700 students per year taught by faculty associated with the herbaria. Active herbaria with accessible information to the general public will empower voters and decision makers to learn about plants. Almost every Introductory Biology text today includes examples of the interesting evolutionary processes seen in the Hawaiian flora and fauna as well as the conservation threats posed to these same organisms. The proposed project will enhance the abilities of the University of Hawaii researchers to study the evolution of plants and to work on creative ways to conserve the unique plants of the isolated islands of the 50th state of the United States.