scholarly journals Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC): A MARK of Curation Excellence

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. e26283
Author(s):  
Peter Jobson ◽  
Joanne Birch ◽  
Gillian Brown ◽  
Jeremy J. Bruhl ◽  
Lyn Cave ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Vascular Type ◽  
Herbarium Collections

Managers of Australasian Herbarium Collections (MAHC) is a sub-committee of the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH) and provides advice and recommendations pertaining to the management of herbarium collections. It was formed in 2009 based initially on Australian herbaria, and later incorporated New Zealand herbaria. MAHC currently has 18 member institutions representing both government funded, and university based herbaria, and includes both the largest (National Herbarium of Victoria - MEL) and smallest collections (Macquarie University - MQU) in the region. The group meets in person annually, and holds regular conference phone calls throughout the year. MAHC has proved itself to be a very cohesive committee, despite time, sizing, staffing, and funding differences. It prides itself in being inclusive, cooperative, collegiate, collaborative and supportive. It has a strong mentor approach toward early career collections managers or those new to collections management. The group has a healthy forward planning outlook, developing, promoting and implementing collections management policy, recommendations, guidelines and standards. This cohesion has resulted in a toolkit of resources that are freely available and strives for a unified world class best practice herbarium curation. Some of these universally agreed tools include templates, biosecurity documents, disaster mitigation and preparation for Nagoya Protocol implementation for Australia and New Zealand. MAHC supports new international initiatives and manages the day to day running of programmes such as the Global Plants Initiative project imaging all vascular type specimens housed in Australasia. MAHC collaborates with CHAH and the data sub-committee, HISCOM (Herbarium Information Systems Committee), for continued improvements in sharing digital data and specimens via the Australasian Virtual Herbarium (AVH https://avh.chah.org.au/) and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA https://www.ala.org.au/) services. This talk will use examples to highlight the effectiveness and success of a unified group in: developing standard practice in curation, incorporating improved curation procedures, and its ability to be agile, responding to incidents at an international level.

scholarly journals Coping with emotion in New Zealand Business schools

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Alice Scahill
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Coping Strategies ◽  
Business Schools ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Early Career ◽  
Specific Level ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Using Data

<p>Emotion is an integral aspect of organisational life and this thesis examines the emotional demands that academics experience in their workplace and the consequences this has for them. At a more specific level, the thesis examines the strategies that academics use to cope with these emotional demands, and how these strategies develop and change over the duration of their career. Using data collected from interviews with academics from business schools across the New Zealand tertiary education sector, findings are presented which demonstrate how academics develop coping strategies and how the organisation provides support. The implications from these findings could have significant effects for organisational practice. Firstly, these findings illustrate that academics experiences emotion in relation to personal, interpersonal, and systemic factors. Secondly, academics adopt a wide array of coping strategies, which have been personally developed by each individual over time. They are not given any organisational training or support for their development of these strategies. In addition, academics use coping strategies both in the workplace and at home in order to attempt to mitigate the negative impacts of the emotional demands of their roles. Finally, academics in their early career lack adequate coping strategies, and appear to have the lowest levels of organisational commitment.</p>

scholarly journals First person – Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora

Biology Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Oxidative Stress ◽  
Life Cycle ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Stress Response ◽  
Marine Invertebrates ◽  
Early Career ◽  
New Method ◽  
First Person ◽  
Early Career Researchers ◽  
Selection Of

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Natalí Delorme and Leonardo Zamora are co-first authors on ‘ A new method to localise and quantify oxidative stress in live juvenile mussels’, published in BiO. They are both researchers in the laboratory of Serean Adams at the Cawthron Institute, Nelson, New Zealand. Natalí's research interests centre around ecophysiology of marine invertebrates, particularly on the organisms' stress response. Leonardo is investigating the biology of commercially, ecologically and culturally relevant marine invertebrates throughout their life cycle.

scholarly journals Type specimens of Streptaxidae from Henry C. Burnup in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

2020 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Rodrigo B. Salvador ◽  
Jonathan D. Ablett
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
South African ◽  
Land Snail ◽  
Land Snails ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Small Collection

A small collection containing thirty-nine lots of South African Streptaxidae land snails is housed in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa (NMNZ). This material previously belonged to British/South African malacologist Henry C. Burnup, who either donated it to, or exchanged it with New Zealand-based Swiss malacologist Henry Suter, whose land snail collection was eventually acquired by the NMNZ. The lots contain type specimens of eight taxa (species and subspecies) and are presented herein in the form of an annotated and illustrated catalogue.

scholarly journals Juridical review of disaster management policy in ASEAN and the correlation with the domestic management system of disaster in Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 331 ◽  
pp. 02015
Author(s):  
Delfiyanti ◽  
Magdariza
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Emergency Response ◽  
Management System ◽  
Humanitarian Assistance ◽  
Disaster Mitigation ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Potential Disaster ◽  
Disaster Management System

Southeast Asia was in a natural disaster thus the management was supposed to be a priority to the existing states in this territory. It is the most vulnerable to disaster in the world. By then, the member states of ASEAN agree to issue the regulation for disaster management, ASEAN Agreement on Disaster Management and Emergency Response (AADMER) that in forwarding established ASEAN Coordinating Centre for Humanitarian Assistance on Disaster Management (AHA Centre). It is facilitating cooperation and coordination for disaster management in the ASEAN territory. The organization was established in Indonesia as a member state with potential disaster. To reinforce the regulation and disaster management system, the government issues Act No.24 of 2007 on disaster management as the base and manual. The policy refers to the activities implemented immediately for an accident in control arising worst impact, involving rescue and evacuation of the victim, properties, compliance of demand, shelter, refugees handling, and facilities-infrastructure restoration. Moreover, the Act regulating disaster mitigation-based layout system set in an attempt to improve safety and living comfort.

Challenging the Concept of Infinity Retention of Collections in Selected National Museums in Zimbabwe

2018 ◽  
pp. 408-427
Author(s):  
Nyasha Agnes Gurira
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Storage Space ◽  
Limited Information ◽  
Collections Management ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
National Museums ◽  
Multiple Case

The chapter challenges the concept of undefined, infinity, and indefinite retention periods of collections in Zimbabwe's state museums and underscores the need for each state museum to develop a collections management policy. The concept of indefinitely retaining collections characterizes Zimbabwe's National Museums. In that regard, this chapter interrogates issues surrounding collections management in Zimbabwe's state museums. Museums in Zimbabwe are overburdened with inherited collections from the past with limited supporting information. This coupled with the need to store contemporary collections congests the storage space in museums. A multiple case study approach was employed to examine the state of collections in three selected state museums in Zimbabwe. Findings revealed that collections in these museums have been inherited from the past collectors who amassed collections with limited information about them. There was no formal collections management policy. The chapter proposes a regime to guide museums in dealing with their collections.

scholarly journals Genus Allium in CSBG Digital Herbarium

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 00042
Author(s):  
Nataliya Kovtonyuk ◽  
Irina Han ◽  
Evgeniya Gatilova ◽  
Nikolai Friesen
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Russian Far East ◽  
Far East ◽  
Botanical Garden ◽  
International Standards ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ◽  
East Europe ◽  
Herbarium Collections ◽  
Biodiversity Information

Two herbarium collections (NS and NSK) of the Central Siberian Botanical Garden SB RAS keep about 740,000 specimens of vascular plants, collected in Siberia, Russian Far East, Europe, Asia and North America. Genus Allium s. lat. Is presented by 6224 herbarium sheets, all of them were scanned using international standards: at a resolution of 600 dpi, the barcode for each specimen, 24-color scale and scale bar. Images and metadata are stored at the CSBG SB RAS Digital Herbarium, generated by ScanWizard Botany and MiVapp Botany software (Microtek, Taiwan). Datasets were published via IPT at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility portal (gbif.org). In total 207 species of the genus Allium are placed in the CSBS Digital Herbarium, which includes representatives from 13 subgenera and 49 sections of the genus. 35 type specimens of 18 species and subspecies of the genus Allium are hosted in CSBG Herbarium collections.

Catalogue and type designations for New Zealand Goniaceritae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Pselaphinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4614 (2) ◽  
pp. 255 ◽  
Author(s):  
JIA-WEI SHEN ◽  
RICHARD A. B. LESCHEN
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Type Material ◽  
Valid Species ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Primary Type

A catalogue for the eight Goniaceritae genera that occur in New Zealand is presented, treating a total of 62 species. Seventeen holotypes are confirmed, 38 lectotypes and 99 paralectotypes are designated herein for all valid species but Eupines acceptus Broun, for which type material was not located. One synonymy is proposed: Anabaxis electrica (King, 1863) (= Rybaxis brevis Oke, 1928). Four species of Eupines known only by females are valid species, but without subgeneric assignment. Images of primary type specimens and their original labels are provided.

scholarly journals Updated Checklist of Vascular Plants Endemic to Mongolia

Diversity ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 619
Author(s):  
Shukherdorj Baasanmunkh ◽  
Magsar Urgamal ◽  
Batlai Oyuntsetseg ◽  
Alisa Grabovskaya-Borodina ◽  
Khurelpurev Oyundelger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vascular Plants ◽  
Growth Form ◽  
Conservation Status ◽  
Type Specimen ◽  
Field Observations ◽  
Type Specimens ◽  
Central Mongolia ◽  
Endemic Taxon ◽  
Voucher Specimens ◽  
Herbarium Collections

The aim of the present study is to update the checklist of vascular plants endemic to Mongolia using previous checklists, publications, herbarium collections, and field observations. The revised checklist includes 102 endemic taxa (95 species, five subspecies, and two nothospecies) from 43 genera and 19 families. The majority of endemic taxa were distributed in western and central Mongolia, and high endemic species richness was identified in four phytogeographical regions, namely Mongolian Altai, Khangai, Dzungarian Gobi, and Gobi Altai, which harbor 49, 27, 20, and 16 endemic taxa, respectively. For each endemic taxon, we compiled information about growth form, conservation status (if already assessed), phytogeographical distribution, and voucher specimens. Data on each taxon’s type specimen were also collected, and the majority of the type specimens were accessioned at the LE (58 taxa), MW (20 taxa), and UBA (7 taxa) herbaria.

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