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Teaching Gandolfo, Maria A [1], Nixon, Kevin [2]. The Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection (CUPAC) and the Cornell University Paleobotanical Slide Collection (CUPC-S) as an online teaching resource. The CUPAC- The Cornell University Plant Anatomy Collection is an historically important collection of anatomical slide preparations housed at BH herbarium in the L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Section of Plant Biology. The collection includes two subcollections, the general CUPAC collection and the Palm Collection (CUPAC-PALM). An associated collection of fossil slide preparations (CUPC-S) is administered and curated with CUPAC. The taxonomic and morphological depth and breadth of coverage in CUPAC is tremendous, ranging from algae to flowering plants, and diverse structures including most vegetative and reproductive organs. The ca. 60,000 slides in the general collection include materials prepared by renowned Cornell plant anatomists, among them A. Eames, M. Wilde, D.W. Bierhorst, H.Moore, N. Uhl, Ch. Uhl, R.T. Clausen, and D. Paolillo. CUPAC-PALM includes ca. 50,000 slides prepared by Natalie Uhl and Hal Moore that are almost universally vouchered with herbarium specimens. The collection has been augmented with contributions from other important plant anatomists, such as K. Esau, S. Carlquist, P. Maheshwari, and B. Johri. The CUPC-S collection includes important preparations of fossilized early land plants, including many types, by H. Banks, H. Andrews, and others. Many of these slides from all three collections have the been the basis for figures and plates in important textbooks, monographs and scholarly articles, many are vouchered with herbarium material or fossil specimens, and in the case of the palm slide collection, many are prepared from type material. Currently, a preliminary but extensive set of digitized slides is available online as the result of a completed pilot project to inventory, barcode, image, capture data and develop a working web interface for the collection. This interface includes the ability to easily search on anatomical structure, cell type, organ or taxon. The interface also has a set of tools for online measurement of anatomical structures directly from the slide images, and the ability (account controlled) to overlay private or public labels on the images for courses, course laboratories, interactive quizzes and exams, and other educational purposes. A newly funded NSF project is now underway to image and database an even larger set of slides. The current state of the project and a demonstration of the interface and tools and how to use them for teaching purposes will be presented. The interactive web-accessible database of the CUPAC collection images is accessible at http://cupac.bh.cBSA Savannahornell.edu/
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1 - Cornell University, L. H. BAILEY HORTORIUM, 410 Mann Library Building, ITHACA, NY, 14853-4301, USA
2 - Cornell University, L. H. BAILEY HORTORIUM, 408 MANN LIBRARY, ITHACA, NY, 14853-4301, USA
Keywords:
anatomy
Slides
collections
extant
fossil.
Presentation Type: Oral Paper
Session: 18, Teaching Section Papers Session I
Location: 101/Savannah International Trade and Convention Center
Date: Tuesday, August 2nd, 2016
Time: 9:00 AM
Number: 18005
Abstract ID:609
Candidate for Awards:None |
