Small Collections Grant
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Collection, Maintenances and Replacement of the old plant specimens of Haramaya University Herbarium
Ethiopia
Conserve
Cost (USD):
2000
HUHE
Haramaya University
Objective:
Therefore, the proposal written for the grant is planned to fulfill the following objectives.
o To identify, and collect the endangered plant species and replace them
o To collect and replace the very old plant specimens
o The Maintenance of the mounted specimens, and change of the species and genus cover of the stored specimens in the Herbarium.
o To buy the field and herbarium equipment (glue, mounting papers, photo camera, Barcode Scanner, computer, field cloth)
o To train the staff members of the herbarium.
Timetable:
L/N Activities Time
1 Identification of species and specimens need to replace March 2023
2 Buy the necessary equipment and train the staff March 2023
3 Field visit for collection April 2023
4 Plant specimens collection and drying May 2023
5 Herbarium techniques, filing, and changing species and genus cover June 2023
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:
The planned objectives will have achieved through the following methods.
Endangered plant species registered by the national and our herbarium that is found and stored in the herbarium will be identified, and replacement and maintenance will be given to them first. Identified and recorded old specimens found in the herbarium which are losing their normal morphological shapes will be replaced by collecting from their original habitat by referring to information from their labeling paper.
Field and herbarium equipment (glue, mounting papers, photo camera, field cloth) will be bought, and staff training will take place. Following the above activities, a repeat field visit will be carried out after the rainy season to check the flowering season of the plants to collect the sound specimen. After repeated field visits and observations, plant species specimen collection will take place. Plant specimen collections will be started according to the priority stated in the objectives. Following specimen collections, herbarium techniques like drying, mounting, labeling, and filing will take place. Finally, all species and genus cover papers will be changed for the whole specimens found in the herbarium, because species and genus covers are very old.
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"Other" target:
Lenjisa Direba Balcha
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