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

正在建立太平洋植物标本协会（CPH），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是毕晓普博物馆、国家热带植物园、夏威夷大学马诺阿分校以及夏威夷、美属萨摩亚、萨摩亚、汤加、帕劳、关岛和斐济的植物标本馆合作的新项目。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100万份干植物标本进行整理和数字化成像，创建标准化的植物清单，并通过单一门户网站在线提供收集的数据和数字化图像。通过CPH增加对太平洋盆地植物和藻类数字数据的访问，将为研究人员和公民科学家创造新的机会，以发现和使用按物种、地点和机构收集的数据。拉丁和普通植物名称工作清单将促进生物学家的研究和监测整个太平洋入侵和濒危物种的土地使用管理人员的工作。将为夏威夷的大学生提供植物标本馆管理课程，并为当地太平洋岛民提供植物标本馆的就业机会。将为该地区的专业生物学家提供鉴定讲习班，重点是对鉴定太平洋物种构成特别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.