CSBR: Natural History: Repair, digitization, and integration of the Southern Adventist University herbarium into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga herbarium

该奖项将支持将南方基督复临安息日会大学(SAU)的标本整合到田纳西大学查塔努加分校(UTC)的标本收藏中。UTC植物标本馆是一个中等大小，但在科学和教育方面活跃的干燥和存档的植物标本收藏，来自田纳西州，佐治亚州西北部，和阿拉巴马州东北部。SAU收集的大约9500个标本代表了来自美国和加拿大的数千个物种。通过SAU教授的历史传教工作，还从菲律宾、肯尼亚、黎巴嫩和伊拉克阿布格莱布等国际地点收集了标本。UTC的工作人员将修复损坏的标本，确保SAU收藏的安全，并将其整合到UTC蓬勃发展的收藏中。数字数据集将通过iDigBio(iDigBio.org)等在线公共门户网站向研究人员、教育工作者、自然资源保护者和业余爱好者提供。田纳西大学查塔努加分校(UCHT)的植物标本馆在田纳西州和阿巴拉契亚山脉南部被公认为是记录田纳西州植物区系的领先资源，用于将田纳西州的植物标本馆收藏数字化，作为东南地区专业知识和收藏网络(SERNEC)的一部分，通过包括田纳西州/肯塔基州植物地图集在内的在线门户网站获取植物学数据，以及作为培训和教育年轻的田间植物学家和自然保护者的设施。2014年，来自田纳西州克利夫兰的南方基督复临安息日大学(SAU)的约9500个标本标本的萎靡不振的标本收藏被转移到了UCHT。转移后，分类工作显示虫子造成了广泛的损害，胶水失效，以及储存不当。然而，它也揭示了这些藏品的国内和国际广度。除了北美，还观察到了来自肯尼亚、黎巴嫩、菲律宾和伊拉克的标本，可能代表了其他美国收藏中没有的独特生物收藏。这一努力将支持移交后的管理、修复、保存、融入联合大学和南部非洲联盟藏品的数字化。UTC的学生将接受有关标本修复、数字化、努力使藏品数据在线可用以及藏品管理方面的培训。收集的数据将通过SERNEC、Symbiota、iDigBio和GBIF共享。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award will support the integration of specimens from the Southern Adventist University (SAU) into the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) Herbarium collection. The UTC herbarium is a moderately-sized, but scientifically and educationally active collection of dried and archived plant specimens from Tennessee, northwest Georgia, and northeast Alabama. The SAU collection of approximately 9,500 specimens represents thousands of species from across the US and Canada. Through historical missionary work of SAU professors, specimens were also collected from international locations including Philippines, Kenya, Lebanon, and Abu Ghraib, Iraq. Workers at the UTC will repair damaged specimens and secure the SAU collection and integrate it into a thriving collection at UTC. The digital data set will be made available to researchers, educators, conservationists, and hobbyists through online public portals like iDigBio (iDigBio.org). The Herbarium at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UCHT) is recognized across Tennessee and in the Southern Appalachians as a leading resource documenting Tennessee's state flora, for digitizing Tennessee's herbarium collections as part of the Southeast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC), for making botanical data accessible through online portals, including the Tennessee/Kentucky Plant Atlas, and as a facility to train and educate young field botanists and conservationists. In 2014, a languishing herbarium collection of ca. 9,500 specimens from Southern Adventist University (SAU) in Cleveland, Tennessee was transferred to UCHT. After transfer, triage work revealed extensive damage from insects, failing glue, and improper storage. However, it also revealed the national and international breadth of the collection. Beyond North America, specimens were observed from Kenya, Lebanon, Philippines, and Iraq, potentially representing unique biological collections not present in other US collections. This effort will support the post-transfer curation, repair, preservation, integration into UCHT, and digitization of the SAU collection. Students at UTC will be trained on specimen repair, digitization, efforts to make collections data available online, and collections curation. Data from this collection will be shared through SERNEC, Symbiota, iDigBio, and GBIF.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.