Award Number:
PR/J Number: R2303100010
PROJECT ABSTRACT
Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit
(Cooperative Agreement # H1200-09-0005)
Park: Multipark: (Canyon de Chelly NM, Grand Canyon NP, Petrified Forest NP, Sunset Crater
NM, Walnut Canyon NM, Wupatki NM)
Project Title: Herbarium Imaging Project (Phase 3-MNA)
Funding Amount: $3,772
CPCESU Partner Institution: Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA)
Principal Investigator:
Janet Whitmore Gillette
Assoc. Collection Manager for Natural Science
Museum of Northern Arizona
3101 N. Fort Valley Road
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
(928) 774-5211 ext 265
Fax 928-779-1527
jgillette@MNA.mus.az.us
NPS Key Official:
Ann Hitchcock
Senior Advisor for Scientific Collections
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW (2301)
Washington, DC 20240-0001
202-354-2271
Fax 202-371-2422
ann_hitchcock@nps.gov
Start Date: September 30, 2010
End Date: May 15, 2012
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Abstract:
NPS parks in northern Arizona; the Museum of Northern Arizona, McDougall Herbarium; and
The University of Arizona Herbarium will collaborate to capture digital images of park
herbarium specimens located at the Museum of Northern Arizona and post them on the web for
public access. Twenty-two parks have over 6,500 park herbarium specimens on repository loan
to the McDougall Herbarium. The McDougall Herbarium manages the specimens on a day-today basis and provides physical access to the specimens. This project will capture digital images
of an estimated 3,437 specimens from six parks (Canyon de Chelly NM, Grand Canyon NP,
Petrified Forest NP, Sunset Crater NM, Walnut Canyon NM, Wupatki NM) and make them and
related data available on the web. Park, museum, and university staff, researchers and others
will be able to access the specimens virtually from their desks, thus decreasing physical access to
and the negative impact of handling the specimens while vastly increasing actual use of the
information. These images and data will be readily accessible to park staff to inform resource
management, to museums and universities throughout Arizona to enhance teaching and research,
to other members of the scientific community to facilitate research, to school teachers and
students, amateur botanists, garden clubs, and other members of the public, both in the US and
internationally, who have an interest in Arizona flora. The images and data will be posted on
SEINet at http://seinet.asu.edu/seinet/index.php and on the NPS Web Catalog at
http://www.museum.nps.gov/ .
Keywords:
Vegetation
Herbaria
Digital imaging
Miscellaneous
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