CSBR: Natural History: High-Density Storage, Improved Preservation, and Digital Networking for OSU COV Collections of Fishes, Amphibians, and Reptiles

俄克拉荷马州州立大学脊椎动物标本馆（OSU COV）包括鱼类、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类、哺乳动物和冷冻组织标本，由OSU综合生物学系管理。 这些代表了宝贵的标本和相关数据，用于研究，教学和外展内的OSU/北方俄克拉荷马州社区和整个更大的学者社区。该项目的重点是通过更换不合格的储存容器，安装高密度，紧凑的架子，以及完成这些收藏品的数字化和地理参考，从而提高这些收藏品的研究，大学教学和公共教育/推广的使用，来改善COV-鱼类和COV-两栖动物和爬行动物。 这些改进将促进俄勒冈州立大学教师和学生，来自其他机构的研究人员使用这些收藏品，并将使K-12团体和区域部落学院的合作努力受到收集条件差的阻碍。 该奖项确保了对不可替代的标本的保护，提高了空间的利用效率，并通过互联网为俄勒冈州立大学社区内外的研究人员提供了相关数据的访问。COV鱼类包含来自地球仪的标本，集中在北美中部平原和尼泊尔。 该系列还包括俄克拉荷马州环境质量部（ODEQ）捐赠的来自整个俄克拉荷马州采样站的20多年的鱼类系列，这些鱼类尚未被编目。 COV两栖动物和爬行动物收藏包括来自世界各地的标本，包括智利蜥蜴和欧扎克高原蝾螈。 这些收藏品包括过去10年中描述的物种的模式标本，并为其他几所大学的研究人员提供了这些描述的材料。 尼泊尔标本可能持有额外的未描述的物种和ODEQ标本有很大的潜力，了解长期的模式/流程流生态，环境变化和污染物的影响，以及土地利用模式的变化的影响。 该项目将支持安装高密度、紧凑的货架和不锈钢罐，并更换不合格的集装箱。 收集的目录部分数字化，但只有俄克拉荷马州鱼的地理参考，目前没有目录可通过互联网搜索。该项目将允许所有目录的数字化和地理参照，并开发一个可搜索的数据库。 与OSU跨学科大学水平和K-12跨学科项目建立的合作以及与Comanche Nation College日益增长的合作将通过支持的改进和数字化来利用。该项目产生的所有数据将与iDigBio（https：//www.idigbio.org/）共享，以确保研究人员和公众可以访问。

Oklahoma State University Collection of Vertebrates (OSU COV) comprises collections of fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, and frozen tissues and is administered through the OSU Department of Integrative Biology. These represent invaluable specimens and associated data that are used in research, instruction, and outreach within the OSU/Northern Oklahoma community and throughout the larger community of scholars. This project focuses on improvements to COV-Fishes and COV-Amphibians and Reptiles through replacement of substandard storage containers, installation of high-density, compactible shelving, and completion of digitization and georeferencing for these collections, thus allowing for enhanced use of these collections for research, university instruction, and public education/outreach. These improvements will facilitate use of these collections by OSU faculty and students, researchers from other institutions, and also will enable collaborative efforts with K-12 groups and regional Tribal Colleges that have been hindered by poor conditions of the collection. This award ensures protection of irreplaceable specimens, increase efficiency of use of space, and provide access to associated data via the Internet to researchers within and beyond the OSU community.The COV-Fishes contains specimens from around the globe with concentrations in the Central Plains of North America and Nepal. This collection also includes a more than 20-year series of fishes from sampling stations throughout Oklahoma donated by Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality (ODEQ) that have not yet been cataloged. The COV-Amphibians and Reptiles collection includes specimens from around the world including Chilean lizards and Ozark Plateau salamanders. These collections include type specimens of species described in the last 10 years and have provided materials for these descriptions to researchers at several other universities. Nepalese specimens potentially hold additional undescribed species and ODEQ specimens have great potential for understanding long-term patterns/processes in stream ecology, impacts of environmental change and contaminants, and effects of changing patterns of land use. This project will support installation of high-density, compactible shelving and stainless steel tanks, and to replace substandard containers. The collection catalogs are partially digitized, but only Oklahoma fish are georeferenced, and no catalog is currently searchable via the Internet. The project will allow for digitization and georeferencing of all catalogs and development of a searchable database. Collaborations established with interdisciplinary college-level and K-12 cross-disciplinary programs at OSU and a growing collaboration with Comanche Nation College will be leveraged through the supported improvements and digitization. All data resulting from this project will be shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and the public.