The Beetles of the Pacific Northwest: The Legacy of Melville Harrison Hatch

该项目的目标是将大量的甲虫标本纳入俄勒冈州节肢动物收藏中心(OSAC)。该项目有三个目标。(1)将标本转移到新的防虫柜，以保障标本的物理完整性。(2)将更新用于编目标本的名称，使其符合世界各地其他博物馆使用的标准命名系统(分类法)。(3)改善标本对公众和研究人员的可及性。这些改进将使标本更容易在现场和通过互联网获取。甲虫是环境完整性和气候变化的敏感指标。由于这种生物指示器的作用，OSAC收集的100万份凭证标本对研究人员来说是一个独特的资源，未来将变得越来越重要。这个集合特别重要，因为它记录了过去90年来数千个物种的地理分布，因此为衡量正在进行的和未来的气候变化的影响提供了一个宝贵的基准。在实施收集改进后，收集的收集将被各种专家(例如，生态学家、进化生物学家)使用，并将由普通公众在线获取。

The goal of this project is to integrate a substantial collection of beetle specimens into the holdings of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC). The project has three aims. (1) The physical integrity of the specimens will be safeguarded by transferring them to new pest-proof cabinets. (2) The names used to catalog the specimens will be updated so that they comply with the standard naming system (taxonomy) used worldwide by other museums. (3) The accessibility of the specimens to the public and researchers will be improved. Those improvements will make the specimens more accessible onsite and via the internet.Beetles are sensitive indicators of environmental integrity and climate change.Because of this bioindicator role, the OSAC collection of one million voucher specimens is a unique resource for researchers that will be increasingly important in the future. This collection is especially important because it documents the geographic distribution of several thousand species over the last 90 years and so provides an invaluable benchmark for gauging the impact of ongoing and future climate change. After the collection improvements are implemented, the collection will be used by a variety of experts (e.g., ecologists, evolutionary biologists) and will be accessible online by the general public.