Collaborative Research: Consortium of Pacific Herbaria. A Research and Collections Network for Oceania

太平洋草本植物联盟(CPH)正在成立，以研究和管理来自波利尼西亚-密克罗尼西亚热点地区的植物收藏。CPH是主教博物馆、国家热带植物园、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校和夏威夷、美属萨摩亚、萨摩亚、汤加、帕劳、关岛和斐济的草药组织合作的新项目。CPH的主要目标包括对来自波利尼西亚、密克罗尼西亚和斐济的近100万份干燥的植物标本进行整理和数字成像，创建标准化的植物清单，并通过单一门户在线提供收集数据和数字图像。通过CPH增加对太平洋盆地植物和藻类的数字数据的访问，将为研究人员和公民科学家创造新的机会，按物种、地点和机构发现和使用收集数据。一份拉丁语和常见植物名称的工作清单将有助于生物学家的研究和监测整个太平洋地区入侵和濒危物种的土地使用管理人员的工作。夏威夷将向大学生提供植物标本馆管理课程，当地太平洋岛民将提供植物标本学就业机会。将为该区域的专业生物学家举办鉴定讲习班，重点介绍对鉴定太平洋物种构成特殊挑战的五个常见植物科。

The Consortium of Pacific Herbaria (CPH) is being created to study and manage plant collections from the Polynesia-Micronesia hotspot region. The CPH is a new collaboration between Bishop Museum, National Tropical Botanical Garden, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and herbaria in Hawaii, American Samoa, Samoa, Tonga, Palau, Guam, and Fiji. The major goals of the CPH include curating and digitally imaging nearly one million dried plant specimens from Polynesia, Micronesia and Fiji, creating a standardized plant checklist, and making collections data and digital images available online from a single portal.Increased access to digital data for plants and algae of the Pacific Basin through the CPH will create new opportunities for researchers and citizen scientists to discover and use collection data by species, location, and institution. A working list of Latin and common plant names will facilitate the research of biologists and work of land-use managers who monitor invasive and endangered species throughout the Pacific. Classes in herbarium curation will be offered to college students in Hawaii, and employment opportunities will be made available in herbaria to native Pacific Islanders. Identification workshops will be offered to professional biologists in the region, focusing on five common plant families that pose particular challenges for identifying Pacific species.