Collaborative Research: Expanding SEINet

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。亚利桑那州立大学（ASU）和沙漠植物园（DES）的植物标本馆（博物馆植物收藏）获得了一个奖项。Leslie R. Landrum和Andrew M. Salywon分别以各种方式扩大西南环境信息网络（SEINet）。首先，亚利桑那州立大学的工作人员将促进在SEINet上发布来自其他机构的数十万个标本的现有数据。其次，亚利桑那州立大学和DES的工作人员将对大约94,000个植物标本进行摄影、数据库和地理参考，这些标本主要来自西南和拉丁美洲。第三，他们将改进一个计算机程序（SALIX），该程序可以半自动地从标签中提取信息，并将其传输到数据库中，使该程序普遍可用。所有照片和信息将发布在http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php网站上。第四，亚利桑那州立大学和DES将为中学教师（特别是来自内城和偏远农村学校的教师）举办研讨会，将植物研究和SEINet整合到他们的教学中，并将继续通过电子邮件网络与他们和他们的学生合作。各类大学生工作者将在此项目中获得植物标本馆管理、数据库、数码摄影和计算机编程等方面的培训。该项目将为科学家、各级学生、土地管理者、自然资源保护者、地理学家、业余植物学家和一般公众提供便利和信息丰富的途径，以获取约140万份博物馆标本中包含的信息。它使以前只有少数人能看到的博物馆标本，几乎可以向任何有网络接入的人开放。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).An award has been made to the herbaria (museum plant collections) of Arizona State University (ASU) and the Desert Botanical Garden (DES), under the direction of Drs. Leslie R. Landrum and Andrew M. Salywon respectively, to expand the Southwest Environmental Information Network (SEINet) in various ways. First, staff at ASU will facilitate the posting of existing data for hundreds of thousands of specimens from other institutions on SEINet. Second, staff at ASU and DES will photograph, database, and geo-reference approximately 94,000 plant specimens, mainly from the Southwest and Latin America. Third, they will improve a computer program (SALIX) that semi-automatically extracts information from labels and transfers it to a database and make that program generally available. All photographs and information will be posted on the web at http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. Fourth, ASU and DES will present workshops for secondary school teachers (especially from inner city and remote rural schools) on integrating plant studies and SEINet into their teaching and will continue to work with them and their students through an email network. Various university student workers will gain training in herbarium management, databasing, digital photography and computer programming during the course of this project.This project will provide convenient and informative access to information contained in approximately 1,400,000 museum specimens to scientists, students at all levels, land managers, conservationists, geographers, amateur botanists, and the public in general. It makes museum specimens, previously available to only a few people, virtually available to anyone with web access.