Modernization of the Oregon State Arthropod Collection

俄勒冈州州立大学的俄勒冈州州立节肢动物标本馆（OSAC）是太平洋西北部（PNW）最大的昆虫标本馆，收藏了大约300万个标本。这些标本是太平洋西北沿岸昆虫多样性研究的基础，也为林业、农业和保护领域的区域利益相关者提供了有价值的信息和参考资料。该项目为OSAC安装了一个压缩机系统和新的机柜，充分利用了整个建筑物的改造，并完成了OSAC向现代化的安全存储库的过渡，这将使OSAC能够进行五十年的研究，增长和与不同社区的积极参与。该项目还将重新安置和改善藏品的几个部分，从而消除阻碍策展和研究的重大基础设施限制。学生们，包括那些在STEM中代表性不足的群体，将通过这些策展项目和帮助创建关于藏品及其标本的公共展示来参与OSAC的复兴。该项目将安装19个可移动的车厢，使OSAC能够容纳在我们新装修的储藏室中。策展项目将集中在地面甲虫，刷脚蝴蝶，真正的错误，真正的苍蝇，并将导致他们被重新安置在新的橱柜，抽屉，和单位托盘。作为项目的一部分，整个收藏品将被深度冷冻，并开发了一个新的害虫处理工作流程，消除了历史上困扰收藏品的害虫挑战。一系列社区博物馆活动，学生策展项目和本科课程，将让学生和公众参与到一个创新的故事中-鼓励参与者探索与博物馆标本相关的多方面信息并从中受到启发。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The Oregon State Arthropod Collection (OSAC) at Oregon State University is the largest insect collection in the Pacific Northwest (PNW), and houses about three million specimens. These specimens serve as the basis for insect diversity research in the PNW and additionally provide valuable information and reference material for regional stakeholders in forestry, agriculture, and conservation. This project installs a compactor system and new cabinets for the OSAC, taking advantage of a full building remodel, and completing OSAC’s transition into a modern, secure repository that will enable fifty years of research, growth, and active engagement with diverse communities. This project will also rehouse and improve several portions of the collection, thereby removing substantial infrastructural constraints impeding curation and research. Students, including those in groups underrepresented in STEM, will participate in this reinvigoration of the OSAC through these curatorial projects and through assisting in the creation of public displays about the collection and its specimens.The project will install nineteen movable carriages, allowing OSAC to be housed in our newly renovated repository room. Curatorial projects will focus on ground beetles, brush-footed butterflies, true bugs, and true flies, and will result in their being rehoused in new cabinets, drawers, and unit trays. The entire collection will be deep-frozen as part of the project, and a new specimen-handling workflow developed, eradicating pest challenges that have historically plagued the collection. A series of community museum events, student curatorial projects, and an undergraduate course, will engage students and the public with the collection in an innovative story-telling approach whereby participants are encouraged to explore and be inspired by the multifaceted information associated with museum specimens.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.