Small Collections Grant
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Incorporation of the Herbário Sebastião Urias de Paula to the Herbário Parque das Dunas (RN) collection
Brazil
Digitally image, Process backlog, Other
Cost (USD):
2000
RN
Instituto de Desenvolvimento Sustentável e Meio Ambiente do Rio Grande do Norte
Objective:
The goal is to incorporate the entire Herbário Sebastião Urias de Paula, donated by Universidade Potiguar (UNP) (not indexed), which consists of around 4000 samples, to the Herbário RN. The material arrived in January 2019, right before the pandemic, and it began to be trialed, restored and identified, but our biggest challenge is lack of supplies and infrastructure to complete the project, which is photographing and permanently containing this collection in the herbarium. The part that has been trialed already includes new occurrences for the state, rare and endangered species.
Timetable:
January-march 2022: ordering cabinets, c-stand and papers for mounting and making folders; lab work of restoration and cataloguing the material, focusing in trialing the received plants and ridding them of pests.
April-June 2022: installing the new herbarium cabinets and relocating all current deposited specimens into the new layout; continuing the restoration and cataloguing of material, with focus on identifying them, adding them to the national database and making labels.
July-September 2022: continuing the restoration and cataloguing of material, focusing on mounting plants into exsiccates in acid-free paper; photographing and digitalizing the plants as they join the herbarium.
October-December 2022: catching up with the backlog and donating all duplicates to other Herbariums; the c-stand will be used in the future for photographing the specimens previously deposited.
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.
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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.
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Curating specimens (e.g., updating families, species identification, identifying types) – up to 20 points.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The project will yield durable benefits (specimens, digitized metadata, databases, websites) – up to 15 points.
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The project involves outreach/mentoring and broad dissemination – up to 15 points.
This proposal scores:
/40
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Plan:
With this grant we plan to purchase specific herbarium steel cabinets, which will allow the storage of a larger amount of samples in the same physical space we already dispose of. We do not currently have enough cabinets to fit any new entries (these or future ones). The incorporation, moreover, requires that plants continue to be restored, as they came to us in acidic paper and were not previously stored in an appropriate isolated location, so they are contaminated with mold, insects and damaged by humidity, besides not having been previously identified.
To reach this goal, we will manually examine each exsiccate, removing glue from plants and sewing them into new paper, identifying and digitalizing all specimens in our national database, generating indexed labels, running exsiccates through the freezer and finally storing them in the new lockers. The duplicates are also being and will continue to be restored and shared with other herbariums in Brazil.
Even though our collection is indexed in a national database, it is not photographed. We recently gained access to a camera, but we lack the structure to photograph the specimens in a standardized manner. We plan to solve this issue by acquiring photographic equipment and making a small photography station, employing it in the incorporation of the UNP herbarium.
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improve infrastructure
"Other" target:
Alan de Araújo Roque
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