Award to enable the rescue of the orphaned Fish Collection of the University of Louisiana Monroe by a consortium of other regional fish collectionsNational Science FoundationIntegrative Biolog

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8/20/2019 NSF Award Search: Award#1745363 - RAPID: A regional plan to rescue the orphaned University of Louisiana Monroe Fish Collectionhttps://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745363&HistoricalAwards=false 1/2   Award Abstract #1745363  RAPID: A regional plan to rescue the orphaned University of Louisiana Monroe Fish CollectionNSF Org: DBIDiv Of Biological InfrastructureInitial Amendment Date: August 29, 2017Latest Amendment Date: July 8, 2019Award Number: 1745363Award Instrument: Standard GrantProgram Manager: Reed BeamanDBI Div Of Biological InfrastructureBIO Direct For Biological SciencesStart Date: September 1, 2017End Date: August 31, 2019 (Estimated)Awarded Amount to Date: $227,997.00Investigator(s): Henry Bart hbartjr@tulane.edu (Principal Investigator)Nelson Rios (Co-Principal Investigator)Sponsor: Tulane University6823 ST CHARLES AVENUENEW ORLEANS, LA 70118-5698 (504)865-4000NSF Program(s): ICB: Infrastructure Capacity f,BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH COLLECTIONProgram Reference Code(s): 1197, 7914, 9150, 9251Program Element Code(s): 085Y, 1197ABSTRACTAn award is made to Tulane University for moving the University of Louisiana-Monroe (ULM) herbarium to BRIT. In March2017, the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM) announced that it could no longer keep its ichthyological (fish) andherpetological (amphibian and reptile) research collections, because the space the collections were being temporarily storedin was scheduled to be renovated for another purpose starting in early August 2017. The ULM fish collection, comprisingroughly 85,000 lots (jars) representing over one million fish specimens, ranks among the largest fish collections in NorthAmerica. This project will support the transfer of ownership of the entire ULM fish collection to the Tulane UniversityBiodiversity Research Institute (TUBRI); parts of the collection will be transferred to other interested institutions inLouisiana, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Texas. A commercial transportation company will pack and move the entire ULM fishcollection to TUBRI. The ULM specimens document the natural heritage of Louisiana and surrounding regions and canprovide valuable insight into understanding critical environmental issues affecting the region and the nation, includingdocumenting invasive species, changes affecting water resources, wetlands loss, and ocean acidification.SEARCH      RESEARCH AREAS FUNDING AWARDS DOCUMENT LIBRARY NEWS ABOUT NSF8/20/2019 NSF Award Search: Award#1745363 - RAPID: A regional plan to rescue the orphaned University of Louisiana Monroe Fish Collectionhttps://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1745363&HistoricalAwards=false 2/2Roughly 13% of the jars of specimens in the ULM fish collection were donated to ULM by Louisiana Tech University in 1999,but were never cataloged in the ULM fish collection database. Data for these lots will be entered into the ULM database,specimen counts will be added to the database for jars missing this information, and curatorial needs of jars (added alcohol,replacement lids) will be met. Once all this work is completed, curators of fish collections at Louisiana State University,Southeastern Louisiana University, Arkansas State University, the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science and University ofTexas, Austin, will be sent data for specimens from their states and other geographic areas, and the curators will be askedto approve material destined to be sent to them. The material will be re-boxed and packed by the project technician fortransportation to each of these receiving collections. Any remaining material will be retained in the fish collection at TUBRI. Please report errors in award information by writing to: awardsearch@nsf.gov.   RESEARCH AREAS  FUNDING  AWARDS  DOCUMENT LIBRARY  NEWS  ABOUT NSF  National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, USATel: (703) 292-5111, FIRS: (800) 877-8339 | TDD: (800) 281-8749  Text Only Version 

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