Small Collections Grant
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Clear up the specimen backlog at NHT
Tanzania
Process backlog
Cost (USD):
1959
NHT
Tropical Pesticides Research Institute
Objective:
The NHT, established under TPRI Act of 1979 with the mandate of cataloguing the flora of Tanzania, has about 60,000 specimens filed in cabinets while more than 15,000 remain as a backlog. The substantial backlog is collections from our collaborators; the Missouri Botanical Garden through the Tanzania Botanical Training Program (TBTP) between 1998 and 2017, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, through Kaj et al. Most of these represent new specimen records to NHT. We wish to incorporate all labeled specimens into cabinets in the next 3 years (2020 to 2022).
Timetable:
The work for the month of July and August 2020
Week 1: i. Orientation to the herbarium and introduction to curation activities to Interns
ii. Purchasing the material
Week 2 & 3: Mounting 2000 specimens
week 4: Lay-out (sort) mounted specimens
Week 5 & 6: Lay-in (file) specimens
Week 7: Reporting to IAPT by PI
Scoring Rubric
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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:
We plan to mount 6000 specimens per year; we are now mounting 2000 with material received from the Tropical Pesticide Research Institute’s internal sources.
This request is to support mounting of 2000 specimens in July to August 2020 when 5 or more University interns will be on practical training at NHT. NHT staff (John Elia and Neduvoto Mollel) will work with and supervise the team. Each intern will mount about 40 specimens per working day thus at least 2000 will be mounted in 10 days. After mounting, 100 specimens will be laid-out and laid-in (sorted and filed) each day for the next 20 days, thus making 2000 incorporated in cabinets. All specimens have already been prepared for mounting. The requested grant is for purchasing 2000 mounting papers, glue and important stationery for the same. No labor cost is requested here.
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Neduvoto Piniel Mollel
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