CSBR: Natural History Collections: Safeguarding the world's largest dendrochronological collection

CSBR：自然历史收藏：保护世界上最大的树木年轮收藏亚利桑那大学的树木年轮研究实验室（LTRR）拥有世界上最大和最多样化的木材标本收藏，用于树木年轮（树木年轮测年）研究。在过去一个世纪中收集的大约200万个树木年轮标本被用来了解过去的气候和生态系统动态，改进对未来环境的预测，为减轻灾害和资源管理的政策提供信息，并研究和确定人类和环境相互作用的广泛范围。许多这些独特的、不可替代的标本目前正处于危险之中，它们被存放在大学足球场的露天看台下面。它们需要在转移到新的最先进的存储库之前进行编目、标记和重新装箱。将开发技术和工具来协助编目工作，并最大限度地向国际科学界和公众提供资料。通过这一过程制定的最佳做法将提供给世界各地的其他树木年轮实验室。此外，该项目将通过与当地学校合作开发STEM和感官资源包等新资源，加强现有的LTRR公众外展计划。该项目将保护构成树木年轮收集“现代研究”部分的大约6万份标本，使它们可以通过网络资源获得、安全并以电子方式访问。这些标本将使用开源的Tellervo软件进行编目，该软件符合国际研究界开发的树木年轮数据标准（TRiDaS）。Tellervo将进一步发展，包括新的管理界面，以提高编目工作流程的效率。为了使数据能够提供给已建立的生物多样性门户网站，如iDigBio （iDigBio.org）和全球生物多样性信息设施（GBIF.org），领域将从TRiDaS映射到DarwinCore标准，并使用GBIF的集成出版工具包（IPT）交付。还将为Tellervo开发一个专门的门户网站，使用户能够查询除了核心标本收集信息之外与树木年代学数据相关的丰富信息。这些信息与充分的可获取性相结合，将加强下一代树木年轮科学的研究。在这个项目中开发的新的管理、DarwinCore数据导出和web门户工具将提供给许多已经使用Tellervo的实验室，促进国际上采用收集、数据和标本存储的标准化程序，用于树木年轮研究。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

CSBR: Natural History Collections: Safeguarding the world's largest dendrochronological collectionThe Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research (LTRR) at the University of Arizona holds the world's largest and most diverse collection of wood specimens used for dendrochronological (tree-ring dating) research. The estimated two million tree-ring specimens collected over the past century are used to understand past climate and ecosystem dynamics, refine predictions regarding future environments, inform policy for hazard mitigation and resource management, and to study and date a broad range of human and environmental interactions. Many of these unique, irreplaceable specimens are currently at-risk, stored beneath the university football stadium bleachers. They require cataloging, labelling, and re-boxing prior to transfer into a new state-of-the-art repository. Techniques and tools will be developed to assist in this cataloging and to maximize accessibility to the international scientific community and the public. Best practices developed through this process will be made available to other tree-ring laboratories around the world. In addition, the project will enhance the existing LTRR public outreach program by developing new resources such as STEM and sensory resource kits in collaboration with local schools. This project will safeguard the approximately 60,000 specimens that constitute the "modern studies" portion of the tree-ring collection, making them physically available, secure and electronically accessible via web resources. The specimens will be cataloged using the open source Tellervo software, which conforms to the Tree Ring Data Standard (TRiDaS) developed by the international research community. Tellervo will be further developed to include new curation interfaces to improve the efficiency of the cataloging workflow. To enable data to be provided to established biodiversity portals like iDigBio (iDigBio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF.org), fields will be mapped from TRiDaS to the DarwinCore standard and delivered using GBIF's Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT). A dedicated web portal will also be developed for Tellervo enabling users to query the rich information associated with dendrochronological data beyond the core specimen collection information. Such information combined with full accessibility will enhance next generation studies in tree-ring science. The new curation, DarwinCore data export, and web portal tools developed during this project will be made available to numerous laboratories already using Tellervo, facilitating international adoption of a standardized procedure for collection, data and specimen storage for tree-ring research.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.