Manejo exitoso de una inundación en el Herbario USJ de Costa Rica
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22458/urj.v5i2.272Abstract
In November 2007 the break of a drink-water pipeline at the Biology Department, University of Costa Rica caused a flood in the USJ Herbarium and severely damaged many specimens that stayed wet for more than one week. Here I report on the actions that were taken to rescue and restore all the mounted and catalogued specimens that were damaged, and discuss several lessons that were learned from this incident.
KEY WORDS
Protection of scientific collections, Herbarium security, flooding, USJ-Herbarium, specimen restoration, Costa Rica
References
Ames, O. (1944). Destruction of the Schlechter Herbarium by bombing. American Orchid Society Bulletin, 13(4), 105-106.
Barquero, H. (1982). José María Orozco; un sabio en el mundo de las plantas. San José: Ministerio de Cultura, Juventud y Deportes.
Clark, S.H. (1986). Preservation of herbarium specimens: An archive conservator’s approach. Taxon, 35, 675-682.
Hiepko, P. (1987). The collections of the Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (B) and their history. Englera, 7, 219-252.
ICOM. (2013). International Council of Museums. Disaster Relief for Museums. Conferences. Recuperado de http://archives.icom.museum/disaster_relief/conferences.html
Index Herbariorum. 2009. Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum. Herbarium IBF. Recuperado de http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126158 [2 de junio de 2011]
Farasin, K., Bulfon, A., Liebel, G. & Tiefenbach, M. (1993). Naturschutzgebiete Österreichs. Band 3: Tirol, Vorarlberg. Monographien Bd. 38 C. Wien: Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Jugend und Familie. Recuperado de http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/publikationen/publikationssuche/publikationsdetail/?&pub_id=478
Ferdinandeum. Herbarium IBF. Recuperado de http://sweetgum.nybg.org/ih/herbarium.php?irn=126158
Mader, S. (Ed.). (2004). Proceedings of the International Congress Catastrophes and Catastrophe Management in Museums, Sarajevo, 17-21 April 2001.
Innsbruck: Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum / Sarajevo, Zemaljski Muzej Bosne i Hercegovine. [Resumen en inglés y extensa reseña en alemán por Friebe, J.-G. 2005. Virtual Library Museen. Recuperado de http://bestiarium.net/VL-museen/]
Merrill, E.D. (1943). Destruction of the Berlin Herbarium. Science, 98(2553), 490-491.
Metsger, D.A. & Byers, S.C. (Eds.) (1999). Managing the modern herbarium; an interdisciplinary approach. Vancouver: E. Wolf Publ.
Morales, C.O. (2006). Un herbario de Costa Rica llega a 75 años. Lankesteriana, 6(2), 25-28.
Morales, C.O. (2012). El Herbario USJ de Costa Rica: trayectoria y contribuciones. Revista de Biología Tropical, 60(4), 1641-1648.
Morales, C.O. & Villalobos T., N. (2004). Tipos de plantas vasculares en el Herbario de la Universidad de Costa Rica (USJ). Lankesteriana, 4(3), 187-208.
Newey, A., Lepschi, B. & Croft, J. (2006). A Disaster Recovery Plan for the Australian National Herbarium, Canberra. Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research (CPBR). Recuperado de http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/disaster-plan/
Pullen Herbarium (MISS). (2013). Gulf Coast Research Lab., Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Recuperado de www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/herbarium/
RSN. (2007). Boletín [de la] Red Sismológica Nacional (RSN: UCR-ICE). Resumen de la actividad sísmica en Costa Rica durante el mes de noviembre 2007. Recuperado de http://www.rsn.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/en/publicaciones/mns
Touw, M. & Kores, P. (1984). Compactorization in herbaria: planning factors and four case studies. Taxon, 33, 276-287.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
Note: This abstract contains an incorrect copyright due to technical issues. Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms: Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal
All journal contents are freely available through a CC BY 4.0 license.
CC BY 4.0 is a Creative Commons: you can copy, modify, distribute, and perform, even for commercial reasons, without asking permission, if you give appropriate credit.
Contents can be reproduced if the source and copyright are acknowledged according to the Open Access license CC BY 4.0. Self-storage in preprint servers and repositories is allowed for all versions. We encourage authors to publish raw data and data logs in public repositories and to include the links with all drafts so that reviewers and readers can consult them at any time.
The journal is financed by public funds via Universidad Estatal a Distancia and editorial independence and ethical compliance are guaranteed by the Board of Editors, UNED. We do not publish paid ads or receive funds from companies.