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Transition and rebirth at the Frost Entomological Museum (PSUC)
Andy Deans & István Mikó
Frost Entomological MuseumPennsylvania State University
History
1850s
Penn State Libraries
“an institution for the education of youth in the various branches of science, learning and practical agriculture”
Stuart W. Frost1927
retirement, 1957
Patterson Building
Penn State Libraries
Derek Sikes
Sandy_R
Ke Chung “K.C.” Kimcurator, 1968–2008
Today
Museum has >3600 ft2 (>335 m2). Systematics program has >5600 ft2 (>520 m2).
collection
public
prep rooms
office
office
office
librarystorage
A bit dated.
public
Penn State
Glenda Sims
Location, location, location
Expansion, renovation, redesign. Reopen fall 2014!
Anoplura* 15,000 slides Kim collection; 300 spp.
Araneae 30,000 specimens many paratypes
Coleoptera 160,000 specimens 5,500 spp.
Collembola** >650,000 specimens
Diptera 100,000 specimens 2,000 spp.
Hemiptera*** 160,000 specimens Pepper aphid collection
Hymenoptera**** 150,000 specimens 1,700 spp.
Lepidoptera 70,000 specimens Patterson butterflies
Odonata***** 64,111 specimens >1,000 spp.; Beatty collection
remainder 600,000 specimens many in project cabinets
The collection ≈ 2,000,000 specimens
** 508,852 collembolans in these six vials.
Unconventional strengths
● Insects of Pennsylvania
Nicholas A. Tonelli
Unconventional strengths
● Insects of Archbold
Bug G. Membracid
Unconventional strengths
● light-trapped insects
link
Unconventional strengths
● Ophiocordyceps-infected insects
Pinned insects:
● USNM-style storage● 1,668 drawers ● 130 Lane/Ward’s
cabinets● no fumigants
● plus some non-standard cabinets
Wet specimens:
● Shell vials in non-archival glass jars● Glass vials without polyseal gaskets● 728 metal drawers
Odonata:
● Cellophane envelopes or paper triangles ● 1,100 Kraft boxes on open shelves
Slides:
● Canada balsam● standard slide boxes● slides stored horizontally on
open shelves
Recent activities
Curation
Treat / re-house exposed specimens,rescue specimens from Riker mounts
Curation and rebuilding
teaching collection!(we need Grylloblattodea)
Inventory and profiling
first since 1990
http://bit.ly/PSUCinventory
http://bit.ly/FrostSOPs
Loans audit
Training
Summer intern program
We are looking for grad students!
Digitizing and databasing
Species File / mx (TaxonWorks)http://taxonworks.org/identifiers/barcodesimages ● PSUC_FEM 70710
Mexican Odonata:http://volunteer.ala.org.au/project/index/2677524
Eastern U.S. Odonata:http://volunteer.ala.org.au/project/index/2816097
Eastern U.S. Bombus:http://volunteer.ala.org.au/project/index/2812917
Volunteer:
1. transcribe2. copy and paste3. use mapping tool for lat/long
PSUC:
4. verify 5. export6. import into DB
http://gigamacro.com/
Collaboration with Powdermill Nature Reserve, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Ongoing research
systematics: taxonomy, faunistics, phylogenomics
DNA: functional genomics,evolutionary developmentalbiology
museology: effective exhibits, curation practices
informatics: ontologies, semantic phenotype representation
Collaborations
imaging: CLSM, in vivo SR-µCT (van de Kamp talk!), laser ablation tomography
morphology: biomechanics, finite element, nanoindentation analyses
Benjamin Hall
knock-down in Drosophila genotype-phenotypequantify w/rigorneuroanatomy
Santhosh Girirajan, Janani Iyer
Outreach
Friends of the Frost MuseumPSU Master GardenersGreat Insect FairEGSA
Curators' blog
@FrostMuseum
Facebook flickr
James L. MonroeButterflies (and other insects) of Pennsylvania (and elsewhere)
More than you can chew. Sarah Swist, 2013.
Sarah Swisthttp://www.saraheswist.com/
Hard to swallow. Sarah Swist, 2013.
The physical possibility of gravity in the mind of someone standing right here.Sarah Swist, 2013.
Oil and age. Sarah Swist, 2013.
Acknowledgments
K.C. Kim, “Butterfly” Bob Snetsinger, Bob Foottit, Hal White, Justin Schmidt, Nick Sloff
Entomology graduate students, Friends of the Frost Entomological Museum
2013 Frost Biodiversity Interns: Sal, Angela, Karah, Brian
Gary Felton, Dave Love, CAS administration
Jim Monroe, Jana Scott, Sarah Swist
Janani Iyer
http://bit.ly/PSUCrebirth (this slide show)
http://sites.psu.edu/frost/ (Frost Curators’ Blog)
http://psuc.speciesfile.org/(PSUC database)
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