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Small Grants to Institutions: Specimens

 

 Coordinating Institution:

 

N° Institution Country Amount (USD) Period Purpose
1 Administración de Parques Nacionales Argentina 7,557 12 months (28 May 2009 - 27 May 2010) Digitize information of amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals corresponding to the inventory created by the "National Parks of Nahuel Huapi, Lanín and Laguna Blanca's Vertebrates' Inventory Plan".
2 Administración de Parques Nacionales  Argentina 5,150 12 months (28 May 2009 - 27 May 2010) Digitize the information on the species of aquatic birds identified in the 8 sites of Laguna Blanca, as with the 4 lagoons where fish have not been introduced.
3 Administración de Parques Nacionales Argentina 6,360 12 months (28 May 2009 - 27 May 2010) Improve the fauna database of the Biodiversity Information Network by adding the data on mammals of special value of the NEA.
4 Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas   Argentina 10,000 In Negotiation Develop a digital database with 42,000 records of the specimens of the Natural Sciences Argentinean Museum  “Bernardino Rivadavia” and validate the geographical and taxonomic information. 
5 Fundación Miguel Lillo Argentina 10,000 Completed Create a digital database for public use for the biological and geological material collections housed in the Miguel Lillo Foundation.
6 Fundación Oga Argentina 9,981 12 months (5 May 2008 - 5 May 2009) Compile and publish the geo-referenced information on the distribution of the fish in the continental waters of Argentina.
7 Instituto de Botánica Darwinion Argentina 10,000 Completed Create a digital database to make available specimens collected by two of the most important botanists of Argentina during the XX century
8 Museo de La Plata Argentina 10,000 In Negotiation Convert the records of 36.000 specimens from the Museum's Herbarium from paper to a digital database.
9 Colección Boliviana de Fauna Bolivia 10,000 In Negotiation Develop a digital database with 300,000 records of fauna, including amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, fish and invertebrates.  
10 Empresa Brazileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria    Brazil 9,900 In Negotiation Develop a digital database with 20,000 records of specimens of insects.
11 Universidad Estadual Paulista – Herbario    Brazil 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 18.000 records of specimens of plants of the plant catalogue and verify 16,000 scientific names
12 Universidad Federal de Pernambuco    Brazil 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 15,000 records of insects of the Entomological Collection including butterflies, moths and bees.
13 Universidad de Santiago de Chile    Chile 10,000 28-May-2008 to 28–Jul-2009 Digitize 20,756 records of specimens
14 Sociedad Malacológica de Chile Chile 10,000 In Negotiation Digitalize mollusk 20,000 specimens stored at the collection of the Museo Nacional de Historia Natural.
15 Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras Colombia 10,000 Completed Geo-reference the biological collections in the Coastal and Marine Research Institute
16 Red Nacional de Observadores de Aves (RNOA) Colombia 10,000 In Negociation To place 200.000 records on birds in Colombia available in the national network, and to incorporate to his computer tool for the managing of the information about the birds in Colombia (DATAves) more of 200.000 estimated records that at present are distributed among personal databases of the members of the network.
17 Universidad Nacional de Colombia - Herbario Nacional Colombia 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize, georeference and release through the web information of about 40.000 specimens of cryptogams plants deposited in the Colombian National Herbarium
18 Universidad Nacional de Colombia Colombia 9,851 Completed Create a system to geo-reference the world’s largest collection of biological specimens from Colombia. At the present time, there are 235,000 specimens digitized and made publicly available at the Institute’s website.
19 Museo Nacional de Costa Rica Historia Natural y Antropología (Costa Rica) Costa Rica 10,000 29-Jul-2008 to 29-Ago-2009 Create a digital database from Zoological collections hosted in the National Museum of Costa Rica.
20 Aves y Conservación    Ecuador 10,000 1-Jul-2008 to 1-Sep-2009 Digitize the information of 90,000 birds, by studying a minimum of 300,000 individuals of nearly all geographical areas, types of habitat and altitude ranges.
21 Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador     Ecuador 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize the data deposited at el Herbarium on the specimens in the fog forests of Ecuador.
22 Aves y Conservación    Ecuador 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize the information of 90,000 birds, by studying a minimum of 300,000 individuals of nearly all geographical areas, types of habitat and altitude ranges.
23 The Institute Of Jamaica Jamaica 10,000 In Negotiation To digitize 10,000 specimens of insects; 2,500 other invertebrate specimens; 1,000 vertebrate specimens.
24 PRONATURA MÉXICO A.C Mexico 10,000 4-Jun-2009 to 4-Apr-2010 To digitalize and georeference 18,867 specimen observation of birds from Veracruz, Tabasco and Campeche.
25 Museo Entomológico León    Nicaragua 9,200 10-Feb-2009 to 10-Feb-2010 Develop a digital database with 60,000 records of specimens of insects, adding to the database of already 50,000 species.
26 Herbario de la Universidad de Panamá (Plantas Vasculares)  Panama 15,000 18-Feb-2009 to 18-Feb-2010 Geo-reference 9000 specimens and verify the database of another 7000 geo-reference specimens.  In addition, 12,000 specimens will be Digitized and geo-referenced.
27 Círculo Herpetológico de Panama Panama 10,000 Completed Implement, Update and Maintain a I3N IAS Database in Panama
28 Herbario de la Universidad de Panamá (BRYOPHYTES Section)     Panama 10,000 18-Feb-2009 to 18-Feb-2010 Geo-reference 9,000 localities of the collection of Specimens of bryophytes and liquens, Digitize and geo-reference 7,000 localities of the collection not included yet.
29 Universidad de Panamá – Museo de Malacología      Panama 9,058 10-Oct-2008 to 10-Oct-2010 Create a digital database of 10,000 specimens to the collection of bivalves (Pelecypods).
30 Universidad de San Marcos – Colección Maztozoológica  Peru 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 18000 registries of bats that would be given quarterly in lots of 4500 data.
31 Universidad Agraria la Molina     Peru 9,700 Completed Digitize 64,527 data lines including 10,454 Plants registers, 21,558 of Birds, 5,785 of Mammals, 1,693 of Amphibians, 1,620 of reptiles and 507 of Fish. 
32 Universidad de San Marcos – Museo de Historia Natural    Peru 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 18.000 records of fish of continental waters of various regions of the Peruvian Amazon, as well as other river basins
33 Universidad Nacional de Cajamarca - Herbario CPUN Peru 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 10.000 records of specimens from the herbal CPUN of the National University of Cajamarca
34 Universidad Nacional de San Agustín - Herbario Arequipense Peru 10,000 In Negotiation Digitize 11,000 specimens in the course of nine months, it is estimated that most includes approximately 3,000 species
35 Universidad Ricardo Palma – Museo de Historia Natural    Peru 10,000 02-Jul-2008 to 02-Sep-2008 Digitize 3,500 botanical specimens of algae, mushrooms, lichens, mosses, ferns and higher plants gymnosperms and angiosperms as well as 7,500 zoological specimens of insects, mollusks, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
36 Museo Nacional de Historia Natural y Antropología Uruguay 9,940 17-Sept-08 to  17-Oct-08 Digitize all of the species of amphibians and reptiles of the scientific collections of the Science Faculty and the Museum
37 Universidad Central de Venezuela    Venezuela 10,000 26-Feb-2008 to 26-Abr-2009 Digitize 64,527 data lines including 10,454 Plants registers, 21,558 of Birds, 5,785 of Mammals, 1,693 of Amphibians, 1,620 of reptiles and 507 of Fish. 

 

 

 
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