Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159027
N. Iwanycki Ahlstrand
The Greenland Vascular Plant Herbarium at the Natural History Museum of Denmark represents the largest collection of botanical specimens from Greenland and includes some of the oldest known specimens collected in the Arctic, as well as voucher specimens collected over time from important botanical expeditions. High-resolution digital images for all specimens in this collection have recently been obtained and accompanying specimen label data have been transcribed. Digitizing this invaluable botanical collection from Greenland allows us to make nearly 170,000 Arctic plant specimens available online to researchers, amateur botanists, nature managers and advisers, as well as the general public. Improved access to this museum collection will facilitate global change research and nature management in Greenland’s rapidly changing Arctic environment and will help promote the value of digitizing Arctic specimens maintained in natural history collections worldwide. Current and potential applications of Arctic herbarium material in climate change studies, and the biases and limitations of such herbarium material for these studies are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160483
C. Sendino, S. Nikolaeva
Museum natural history collections provide valuable base-line data for comparison with the most recent collections for climate change research. Antarctic collections have been a primary focus of many climate change studies, but collections from within the Arctic Circle have been less involved in this research. However, in the last few years special attention has been focused on Arctic specimen collections and expeditions to the Arctic have become more frequent. Arctic collections in museums can provide valuable information about biodiversity in the region, as well as the impacts of climate change on species and ecosystems. By studying these collections, researchers can better understand the past and present state of the Arctic and use this knowledge to help forecast how the region may change in the future. This information can be used to develop strategies to mitigate the negative effects of climate change and protect Arctic biodiversity. Some of the scientific benefits of researching on these collections include the study of individual species, populations, and the environments in which they lived, how these species have evolved in time, and whether Arctic species are being replaced by others from lower latitudes. Warming in the Arctic has already led to permafrost thaw, sea ice melt and coastline erosion, causing infrastructure collapse, while rising levels of CO 2 lead to acidification. This warming needs to be addressed, as these changes endanger not only the environment and ecosystems but also the local population’s well-being and food security. Access to Arctic collections is important for researchers in these fields, and many museums and research institutions work to make their collections as widely available as possible for scientific study. The Arctic Ocean, unlike the Southern Ocean, is surrounded by land that
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Pub Date : 2023-04-21DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159042
V. Gontar
Russian bryozoans and other invertebrate biocenosis material collected in the Arctic Ocean over a period of more than 250 years, and the corresponding literature citing them, are deposited in the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This paper provides a general description and historical quantitative information about the Historical Bryozoan Collection kept in this Russian institute. Access to species-level data is available via the data portal (www.zin.ru). The quantitative distribution of benthos, specifically bryozoans, in the Russian Arctic seas remained nearly unexplored until recent times. The first systematic quantitative studies were conducted by the Zoological Institute in the Laptev Sea, in its southeastern part, on the New Siberian Shoal in 1973; the Chaun Bay of the East Siberian Sea in 1986; and near Wrangel Island and Cape Schmidt of the Chukchi Sea in 1976.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-17DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167578
Mª Dolores Bragado Álvarez, Javier de Andrés Cobeta
The Mollusca Collection of the National Museum of Natural Sciences (MNCN, CSIC, Madrid) contains some specimens from the Arctic Circle, exactly thirty-eight lots including historical collections, which may provide insights to climate change research. Some of these collections refer to those of the Head of the Scientific Commission of the Pacific, the mariner and naturalist Patricio Paz y Membiela (accessioned in 1873), and the malacologists Joaquín González Hidalgo and Florentino Azpeitia (accessioned in 1913 and 1934 respectively). Recently there has been a donation from the collector and diplomat Javier Conde de Saro which was accessioned in the MNCN in 2011 and a collection of the curator of the Mollusca Collection, Rafael Araujo, of 2010. These specimens belong to twenty-six species (fifteen marine and three freshwater gastropods; six marine and one freshwater bivalves; and one polyplacophoran) from places such as Kola Peninsula, Greenland, and Novaya Zembla; and Russian Arctic waters. All of these specimens have been databased and are an important contribution to global research as mollusk are heavily affected by temperature changes and ocean acidification.
马德里国家自然科学博物馆(MNCN, CSIC, Madrid)的软体动物藏品中有一些来自北极圈的标本，包括历史藏品在内，总共38件，可能为气候变化研究提供见解。其中一些藏品是太平洋科学委员会主席帕特里西奥·帕兹·伊·曼比埃拉(1873年加入)和贝壳学家Joaquín González伊达尔戈和弗洛伦蒂诺·阿兹佩蒂亚(分别于1913年和1934年加入)的藏品。最近，收藏家兼外交官哈维尔·康德·德·萨罗(Javier Conde de Saro)于2011年捐赠了一件藏品，并于2010年由软体动物收藏馆馆长拉斐尔·阿劳霍(Rafael Araujo)收藏。这些标本属于二十六种(十五种海洋腹足类和三种淡水腹足类;六种海生双壳类和一种淡水双壳类;以及来自科拉半岛、格陵兰岛和新地布拉岛等地的一种多地鸟;以及俄罗斯的北极水域。由于软体动物受到温度变化和海洋酸化的严重影响，所有这些标本都已建立了数据库，对全球研究做出了重要贡献。
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Pub Date : 2023-04-13DOI: 10.1177/15501906231167576
Catharine Hawks, Tara D. Kennedy, K. Makos, Anne Marigza, Melissa Miller, Samantha Snell
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Pub Date : 2023-04-03DOI: 10.1177/15501906231164476
Kelsey Falquero, Catharine Hawks, Deborah A. Hull-Walski, K. Makos, Lisa A Palmer
Q?rius is an interactive learning venue at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History (NMNH) designed specifically for teen audience. The space gives visitors a chance to interact with the museum collection items. These are acquired education collections, belonging to the Office of Education and Outreach (E&O). The collections in Q?rius include 6,000 specimens representing the Museum’s seven disciplines—anthropology, botany, entomology, invertebrate zoology, mineral sciences, paleobiology, and vertebrate zoology. A collaborative survey team was set up to assess collection items before their rehousing and storage in the publicly accessible Collections Zone. The result was a risk rating system, developed to minimize the risks to our visitors and to our collections. This system allows collections staff to make housing recommendations that ensures the safety of NMNH’s visitors and the preservation of E&O’s publicly accessible collection. The team implemented rankings by using color-coded labels, similar to the universal traffic stoplight system, to indicate whether the public can handle specimens directly (green), handle with assistance from a trained volunteer (yellow), or view only through barriers (red).
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Pub Date : 2023-03-30DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160455
A. Gould
Most of the paper retrieved from the Arctic has been from sites where cairns were erected or where caches of stores were deposited by nineteenth and early twentieth century explorers. This article describes the investigation and conservation treatment of the contents of one artifact, a metal canister, left in the Canadian Arctic as early as 1850 by parties in search of the missing Franklin Expedition. Retrieved from an Arctic island beach one hundred years later, it was deposited with not one, but two Canadian national collecting institutions. Having rested mostly unexamined for over fifty years, preparations for the exhibition Death in the Ice, The Mystery of the Franklin Expedition in 2015 renewed interest in the artifact and its contents, now known to have been the subject of multiple relocations and rediscoveries in the realms of not only Arctic exploration but also museum and archives practice.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-24DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159038
H. Nøhr-Hansen, S. Piasecki, K. Śliwińska, S. Lindström, E. Sheldon, K. Dybkjær, Annette Ryge, Charlotte Olsen, P. Alsen, J. Boserup
Since 1976 more than 25,000 Arctic sediment samples have been processed for their palynological, nannofossil, or microfossil content at the Geological Survey of Greenland (GGU) and the Geological Survey of Denmark (DGU); both institutes are now merged into the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS). The samples represent nearly all ages from the Neoproterozoic to the Neogene, though dominated by the Mesozoic. A large proportion of the samples were processed for palynomorphs. Up to ten slides have been produced for each palynological sample and usually one slide is produced for each nannofossil and microfossil sample, making the GEUS collection one of the largest Arctic slide collections with more than 200,000 slides. All type specimens and some specimens illustrated in publications listed here have been assigned MGUH numbers (Museum Geologica Universitas Hafniensis) and are housed in the type collection of the Geological Museum of the University of Copenhagen, now part of the Natural History Museum of Denmark.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-20DOI: 10.1177/15501906231159033
S. Kuzmina
Subfossil insects (mostly beetles) are common in the Late Cenozoic terrestrial loose deposits of the Arctic. The best-studied areas are those regions that remained ice-free during the Pleistocene — in Alaska and Yukon, northeast Siberia, and west Chukotka. Tertiary subfossil insects have been found in Alaska, Yukon, Canadian Northwest Territories, and Greenland. The northernmost sites (above 75°N) are Ellesmere and Meighen Islands in Canada, Kap Kobenhavn in Greenland, and Faddeyevsky and Navaya Sibir’ Islands in Siberia. Collections from North America and Russia are housed in research institutions such as The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) in Ottawa, University of Alberta (UofA) in Edmonton, Paleontological Institute (PIN) in Moscow, and Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology in Yekaterinburg; collections from Greenland are housed in the Zoological Museum, University of Copenhagen. The collections are mainly used for research purposes, including reconstruction of past climate and environment, stratigraphy, origin of local faunas, and ecosystems of the past. A few extinct species have been described from the late Neogene and early Quaternary.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-19DOI: 10.1177/15501906231160508
Jo Anne Martinez-Kilgore
The goal of the paper is to explain the risk posed by rodent contaminated materials and environments to cultural heritage professionals, to provide sound information from professional literature and reputable sources, to offer standardized protocols gleaned from these sources, and to view the protocols through case studies from three projects. By spelling out the affinity that rodents have for historic sites, museum collections, archives holdings, records repositories, library collections, and cultural heritage infrastructure it will be clear the risk is paramount. By making clear the widespread habitat of rodents that can spread viruses the case is made for wide adoption of protocols. Diverse professionals, working in conservation and allied fields, can utilize information in this paper as a starting point in planning projects to assess, handle, and treat rodent impacted items, storage areas, and sites.
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