CSBR: NATURAL HISTORY COLLECTIONS: TRANSFORMING ACCESSIBILITY TO THE RICH, SITE-BASED, MULTI-TAXON COLLECTION OF ARCHBOLD BIOLOGICAL STATION

阿赫博尔德生物站（ABS）是一个国际公认的非营利生物野外站，位于佛罗里达中部，旨在保护和保护威尔士湖岭佛罗里达灌丛栖息地中独特的、不可替代的生命记录，威尔士湖岭是美国最危险的生态系统之一。 该项目的目标是大约270，000个标本，包括节肢动物植物，哺乳动物，鸟类，鱼类和爬行动物。 标本将被数字化和成像，以增加在线访问信息，这一独特的收集从佛罗里达灌丛和周围环境。 拟议的活动将促进生物科学的进步，促进对保护的惠益，并扩大教育范围。 例如，通过提供更多的机会使用收集到的信息，为研究项目和其他形式的学生参与，ABS的学生计划将得到加强。 此外，有关收集的信息将在与区域土地管理人员的研讨会上分享，ABS将增加K-12学生的教学标本和展览的机会。该奖项将使阿赫博尔德生物站能够策划和宣传其多样化的收藏。 这一数字化工作将改善研究人员和教育工作者对数据的可访问性。该项目的一个主要重点将是节肢动物的收集（特别是蚂蚁，灌木特有种，昆虫花访客和枯木昆虫），但其他分类群体也将得到保护。与iDigBio的合作将使ABS能够有效地将标本数据库、图像和迁移到互联网上。 与共生体链接的门户网站将充实澳大利亚统计局的网站，提供一个很好的例子，说明区域外地站收集可以取得什么样的成绩。 澳大利亚统计局将收集到的数据公布在网上，从而提供几乎完整的生物多样性记录和丰富的生态数据，使人们能够以其他方式难以复制的方式研究生物多样性。这种可访问性的增加也将使教育工作者和保护社区受益。

An award is made to the Archbold Biological Station (ABS), an internationally recognized not-for-profit biological field station in central Florida, to preserve and secure a unique, irreplaceable record of life in the Florida Scrub habitat of the Lake Wales Ridge, one of the Nation's most imperiled ecosystems. The project targets approximately 270,000 specimens including arthropods plants, mammals, birds, fish, and reptiles. Specimens will be digitized and imaged to increase online access to information about this unique collection from the Florida Scrub and surrounding environs. Activities proposed will enhance advances in the biological sciences, promote benefits to conservation, and increase educational outreach. For example, by offering more opportunities for use of the collection to inform research projects and other forms of student engagement, ABS's programs for students will be strengthened. Furthermore, information about the collection will be shared during workshops with regional land managers and ABS will increase access to teaching specimens and exhibits for K-12 students.This award will allow Archbold Biological Station to curate and digitize its diverse collection. This digitization effort will improve data accessibility to researchers and educators. A major focus of this project will be the arthropod collection (specifically the ants, scrub endemics, insect-flower visitors and dead wood insects) but other taxonomic groups will also be secured. Partnering with iDigBio will enable ABS to effectively database, image and migrate specimen data to the Internet. Symbiota-linked portals will augment the ABS website, providing an excellent example of what a regional field station collection can achieve. By posting the collection data online, ABS will make available a virtually complete biodiversity record and rich ecological data, enabling studies of biodiversity in ways that would be difficult to otherwise replicate. This increase in accessibility will also benefit educators and the conservation community.