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Small Collections Grant

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Protecting from the water: a small herbarium in a moist subtropical city

algasper@furb.br

Brazil

Conserve

Cost (USD): 

1945

FURB

Universidade Regional de Blumenau

Objective:

Our main objectives with this project are:
Reduce humidity in the herbarium room to ensure sample protection;
Properly store samples in plastic boxes;

Timetable:

Activity: To buy the professional dehumidifier in the first month and install in herbarium room.
Activity: to buy the plastic box and in 4 (four) month reoganize the collection so that everything is stored correctly

Scoring Rubric

Reviewer's name:

Collection Improvement (max. 120 points)

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  • Facilitating access to the physical collections by digitization (e.g., data entry, setting up database structure with an outline of the platform to be used, purchasing equipment, and imaging specimens) – up to 30 points.

  • Enhancing physical collections by improving the conservation status of specimens in the herbarium (e.g., better folders, protecting covers, mounting paper, labeling, etc.) – up to 30 points.

  • Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.

  • Increasing our understanding of the flora or funga by making new herbarium specimens available, such as processing of backlog or collecting and mounting of new specimens from understudied sites – up to 20 points.

  • Securing collections by distribution of duplicates (or orphan collections) to other regional or international herbaria or shipping endangered collections to another herbarium – up to 20 points.

This proposal scores:

/120

Methods & Funding (max. 40 points)

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  • Match between the proposed budget and methods for the aims described – up to 10 points.

  • Perceived need, the extent to which the project will benefit from IAPT funding: e.g., due to active floristic work or contribution to poorly collected sites, due to threatened conditions of collections, and for the degree of involvement of others (outreach and education). We give more points for herbaria in low- and middle-income countries – up to 20 points.

  • Sharing duplicate specimens with other herbaria – up to 10 points.

This proposal scores:

/40

Broader Impacts (max. 40 points)

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  • Degree of regional importance of the collection or the taxonomic importance of the targeted collection – up to 10 points.

  • The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.

  • The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.

This proposal scores:

/40

Proposal

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Plan:

FURB herbarium is located at Blumenau, Santa Catarina. The air humidity here is close to 90%, all over the year. Until last month we have a three (3) dehumidifier working to reduce the humidity to close to 50%, but know only two are working and one of them have more than 15 years. Also, our air conditioner does not remove moisture and has had problem (luckily, this equipment the university could do maintenance).
It is know that Brazil is in financial crisis, and despite researchers' warnings (Barbuy 2018, Magnusson et al. 2018), funding agencies were hit hard by budget cuts (Mega 2019). This have impacted severely in biological collections management.
With the grant we will be able to buy a new and professional dehumidifier and boxes to properly store our samples. With an increase from 3,000 samples in 2003 to 65,000 in 2019, we are having some difficulty to store all samples properly. We use plastic boxes, but unfortunate with the cuts in the funding agencies we have not been able to buy more units.


Barbuy, B. (2018) Crisis in Brazil. Science 361 (6409): 1293 LP – 1293. http://10.1126/science.aav4152.
Magnusson, et al (2018) Effects of Brazil’s Political Crisis on the Science Needed for Biodiversity Conservation. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 6: 163.
Mega, E.R. (2019) Financial crisis looms at Brazilian science agency. Science 365 (6455): 731 – 731.

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"Other" target:

André Luís de Gasper

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