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Northern Arizona University Deaver Herbarium
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Future - Required Room Usage and Footage
1) Archived collections
- housed in locked cabinets in secured room with temperature control
(=a ‘constant’ temperature; very little fluctuation). No
personal work areas in this room as per NPS rules. Includes expansion
space for 30 yr growth. Grant will be sought to obtain more archival
specimen cabinets from NSF Biological Research Collections Program
and the National Park Service. 1475 ft2
2) Computer, Processing, Data-entry
area. Room contains desks, file cabinets, tables and computers (already
obtained). 200 ft2
3) Microscope room where collections will be used
for research. Layout table space for active contract, research, and
visitor research area (cannot be co-oped with office areas below).
Room contains dissecting scopes, computers, shelves, and most commonly
used reference books, tables, and desks (already obtained). 300 ft2
4). Library and archives. Room contains shelves, file cabinets, tables
100 ft2
5) Collection Manager/Curator office. Data management, light
stand, digital camera, flat bed scanner Photographer office. Room contains
tables, desks, book shelves, photo-area (already obtained) 100 ft2
6) Office space for 2-3 graduate students. Room contains desks, tables,
and student specimen cabinets (already obtained) 100 ft2
8) Office
space for Navajo Nation Botanist. Room contains desks, tables, specimen
cabinets (already obtained). 100 ft2
9) Shipping/freezer/storage room
(shared with other collections) 600 ft2
Total research and
teaching space with growth of 30 years will require 2975 ft2 (2375
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Special requirements for above space:
1) Ground floor – not basement –flood proof from above
and below
2) Controlled air/heat
3) Away from building exits for pest control
3) Natural lighting (north-facing side of building or UV
film on windows
4) clean room – museum separated from processing/work areas
Not included in this is:
A) office/lab/library space for Tina Ayers– currently in BS305/305/320
Lab will move to new Biology/Chemistry Lab building when complete
in 2007. Office should move to collections area or in office
pod with other biology faculty.
B) teaching lab space for botany classes (three different classes
along with other related seminars.
Active Current Research utilizing ASC:
1) Student theses: Christie (Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands of SF Peaks
Volcanic Field); Currie (Phylogenetics of alcove bog orchid, Platanthera
zothecina); Davis (Rare Plants of Verde Watershed); Kampe (Ethnobotany
of SF Peaks).
2) Flora of San Francisco Peaks (Will Moir lead).
3) Monograph and Phylogenetics of Brickellia (Randy Scott lead).
4) Monograph and phylogenetics of Lysipomia (Tina Ayers lead).
5) Flora North America, southwester editor (H. David Hammond lead).
6) Monograph and phylogenetics of Nemacladus (Nancy Morin lead).
7) Flora North America, Bryum treatment (John Spence)
8) Floristic inventory of seeps/springs (Rebecca Harms, NPS)
9) Floristic studies of ponderosa understory (ERI, Judy Springer
lead)
10) Inventory and monitoring of small parks on southern Colorado
Plateau (Anne Cully, Glenn Rink). |
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