CSBR: Natural History: Critical Upgrades, Expansion, and Reorganization of the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS)

拥有超过120万保存植物标本的集合，在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的威斯康星州国家植物标本馆（WIS）跻身世界上最大和最活跃的植物标本馆的前1%。 它是美洲第三大公立大学植物标本馆，被广泛使用，包括从事生态恢复的公民，国家生物学家，研究人员，教授，以及正在进行独立研究或参加将植物标本馆收藏纳入教学的九种不同大学课程的学生。 最近，WIS被列为世界上14个植物标本馆之一，其在线标本数据在记录环境变化的研究中至少被查阅了20次;它是一个世界级的资源。 随着馆藏的增加，植物标本馆在几十年前就达到了承载能力，现在它的设施过于拥挤，不足以维持标本储存的策展标准，也无法提供完全的公众访问。 例如，装有476柜开花植物的机械化压实机已经故障，无法修复。 植物标本室的两层楼都将进行重大升级;其位于一层楼的已有30年历史的机动压实机系统将被改造成一个新的、更可靠的手动系统，一个新的高密度移动的储存系统和相关的橱柜将安装在植物标本室新购置的二层楼。 这些改进将允许整合分散在整个建筑中的收藏品，适当的装饰和扩展，特别是其特殊的藻类，真菌，地衣和苔藓。 整个植物标本馆收藏的重组将遵循这一扩张，包括采用当代植物分类系统，这是现在在校园里所有正式的大学课程教授。 在麦迪逊校园获得新的真实的房地产恰逢购买了一系列ca。60，000地衣标本补充现有的馆藏。 此外，WIS还参与了许多当前的区域、国家和国际馆藏数字化活动，并且是国家科学基金会资助的两个主题馆藏网络的牵头机构。 这一项目产生的所有数据都将在网上公布（http：//herbarium.wisc.edu/databases.htm），并与iDigBio分享（https：//www.idigbio.org/），确保研究人员和教育工作者能够获得。最后，为了突出无与伦比的自然历史博物馆资源，以老年人和大学前的青少年，WIS将开发为期两天的植物学“专业”在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校的夏季祖父母的大学周。关于工作信息系统及其外联活动的更多信息可在http://herbarium.wisc.edu/上查阅。

With a collection of more than 1.2 million preserved plant specimens, the Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) at the UW-Madison ranks among the top 1% of the world's largest and most active herbaria. It is the third largest public university herbarium in the Americas, and is used extensively by a diverse clientele, including citizens engaged in ecological restoration, state biologists, researchers, professors, as well as students who are conducting independent research or enrolled in any of the nine different university courses that incorporate the herbarium's collection into teaching. Recently, WIS was listed as one of 14 herbaria in the world whose online specimen data has been consulted at least 20 times in studies documenting environmental change; it is a world class resource. As its holdings have grown, the herbarium reached its carrying capacity decades ago, and its facilities are now overcrowded, inadequate for maintaining curatorial standards of specimen storage, and unable to provide full public access. For example, the mechanized compactor holding 476 cabinets of flowering plants has failed and cannot be repaired. Critical upgrades will take place on both floors of the herbarium; its 30-year old motorized compactor system on the main floor will be modified into a new, more reliable manual system, and a new high-density mobile storage system and associated cabinets will be installed in the herbarium's newly acquired second floor. These improvements will allow for consolidation of collections scattered throughout the building, proper safekeeping and expansion, especially among its exceptional algae, fungi, lichens, and mosses. A reorganization of the entire herbarium collection will follow this expansion, including adoption of a contemporary phylogenetic system of plant classification, which is now taught in all formal university courses on campus. The acquisition of new real estate on the Madison campus coincides with the purchase of a collection of ca. 60,000 lichen specimens that complement existing holdings. In addition, WIS is involved in a number of current regional, national, and international collection digitization activities, and is the lead institution for two NSF-funded Thematic Collections Networks. All data resulting from this project will be posted online (http://herbarium.wisc.edu/databases.htm) and shared with iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/), ensuring accessibility to researchers and educators. Finally, in order to highlight unparalleled natural history museum resources to senior citizens and pre-college teens, WIS will develop a two-day botany "major" during UW-Madison's summer Grandparent's University week. Additional information about WIS and its outreach activities is available at http://herbarium.wisc.edu/.