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Bell Atlas Natural History Collections and Observation Projects


MIN-Algae

Bell Museum algae

Records of specimens at the University of Minnesota herbarium (MIN)
Contact: Timothy Whitfeld (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3106a8b4-27d4-442a-b66a-e17ca93dfe5d
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


JFBM-Herps

Bell Museum amphibians and reptiles

Records of zoological specimens at J. F. Bell Museum of Natural Hitory (University of Minnesota)
Contact: Dr. Kenneth Kozak (kozak016@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 43fd36c4-47e2-11e3-81f0-12313d0829ba
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MMNH-Birds

Bell Museum birds

Records of bird specimens at the Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Contact: Dr. Sushma Reddy, Breckenridge Chair of Ornithology (sreddy@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 June 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MIN-Bryophytes

Bell Museum bryophytes

Records of specimens at the University of Minnesota herbarium (MIN)
Contact: Timothy Whitfeld, collections manager (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 68c365df-a16d-471c-8ad9-fa4e2fa9e568
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


JFBM-Fishes

Bell Museum fishes

Records of zoological specimens at the Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Contact: Dr. Kassandra Ford (ford0411@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 April 2021
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MIN-Fungi

Bell Museum fungi

Records of specimens at the University of Minnesota herbarium (MIN)
Contact: collections manager Timothy Whitfeld (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 073ee335-f8b9-472e-8262-a909ff15ff05
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MIN-Lichens

Bell Museum lichens

Records of specimens at the University of Minnesota herbarium (MIN)
Contact: Timothy Whitfeld, collections manager (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 499bf0d6-b8e8-44c8-8f61-27f5a2769318
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MMNH-Mammals

Bell Museum mammals

Records of zoological specimens at the Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Contact: Dr. Sharon Jansa (jansa003@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 20 January 2016
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


JFBM-Mollusks

Bell Museum mollusks

Records of zoological specimens at the Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Contact: Dr. Kassandra Ford (ford0411@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 3 August 2018
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MIN-Paleobotany

Bell Museum paleobotany

reserved specimens from the John Hall paleobotanical collection (consult the Florida Natural History Museum at the University of Florida Museum for the main collection)
Contact: Dr. George Weiblen (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 1989bf45-7dbe-4c49-82dd-db41801715d5
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MIN-Plants

Bell Museum plants

Records of specimens at the University of Minnesota herbarium (MIN)
Contact: Dr. George Weiblen (museum-herbarium@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f292c83d-305c-4b22-97cc-cd9c72e2931e
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to Bell Museum collections policy. Questions may be directed to the curator in charge.


MMNH-Vertpaleo

Bell Museum vertebrate paleontology

This collections database is a place-holder for cataloging of the Bell vertebrate paleontology collection pending transfer to the Science Museum of Minnesota.
Contact: Angela Hornsby (horns076@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 61297917-5918-40b2-96c5-c1b1756a955b
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Bell Museum, University of Minnesota


MPCA

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency fish

Expert observations of fish species recorded during field surveys by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
Contact: John Sandberg (john.sandberg@state.mn.us)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0194d06c-f1d2-420c-80c7-569e5363d1ce
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MPCA

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency invertebrates

Expert observations of invertebrate species recorded during field surveys by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Contact: John Sandberg (john.sandberg@state.mn.us)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4c8aa4a3-ff25-4fc0-b5dd-49f56c5308cc
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MPCA

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency wetland plants

Expert observations of wetland plant species recorded during field surveys by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency. Another tool for accessing aquatic plant survey data of the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC) is located at: https://university-of-minnesota.shinyapps.io/PI_Survey_Catcher/
Contact: Michael Bourdaghs (michael.bourdaghs@state.mn.us)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 5e4a7251-f8d6-4f97-84cf-695f9e978039
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Digital Metadata: EML File

UMN lake plant surveys

A set of 197 lake plant survey lists collected between 1936-1938 by Dr. John Moyle as part of his dissertation at UMN. "The larger aquatic plants of Minnesota and the factors determining their distribution." (1939)
Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 August 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


Entomology-UMSP

University of Minnesota Insect Collection

Housed within the Department of Entomology, UMSP is one of the largest university-affiliated insect collections in North America. Current holdings include 4,035,133 specimens, representing over 53,000 described species (as of December 2019). The collection is a valuable resource for researchers at the University of Minnesota, across the state, and throughout the entomological community, both nationally and internationally.
Contact: Robin Elizabeth Thomson (curator@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 9 September 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Regents of the University of Minnesota

USDA lake plant surveys

A set of 530 lake plant survey lists collected between 1917-1939 by USDA biologists/botanists and summarized by Neil Hotchkiss. Particular attention was paid to the habitat, presence, and breeding status of ducks.
Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 26 August 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File


DUL

Olga Lakela Herbarium, University of Minnesota Duluth

Contact: Dr. Amanda Grusz (algrusz@d.umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 3dd7aa0e-256c-4aca-b022-94f6b55f0f5d
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UMD-UMDI

University of Minnesota Duluth Insect Collection

Contact: Amanda Grusz (biology@d.umn.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 072caf55-bf4c-4088-8336-e8eed560d1cc
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Digital Metadata: EML File


LLBO

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

Carol Mortensen Herbarium of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe , Division of Resource Management
Contact: Kate Hagsten (Kate.Hagsten@llojibwe.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 8cc89206-c336-4626-81a1-33bc6c4f75bd
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Digital Metadata: EML File


CSBSJU

Bailey Herbarium at College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University

The Bailey Herbarium at Saint John’s University has over 30,000 specimens of plants from around the world, including some over 100 years old. It is the largest private collection of vascular and nonvascular plants in Minnesota. Kate Cary recently joined the Bailey Herbarium team. A video about the collection can be viewed here https://csbsjulib.omeka.net/exhibits/show/herbarium
Contact: Stephen Saupe, Curator (ssaupe@csbsju.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: adff4a0e-a167-40e8-b4cb-cee7c0f5faa5
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UMN-CCESR

Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve Biodiversity Observations

Records and images of animals and plants observed at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve.
Contact: Caitlin Potter (caitlin@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 65257aba-632b-4206-8001-acc9278ccb09
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Digital Metadata: EML File


MANK

Darlene and William Radichel Herbarium, Minnesota State University Mankato

Minnesota State University Mankato
Contact: Matthew Kaproth (matthew.kaproth@mnsu.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 338037e9-4be6-40b6-8378-f5005a69b660
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Mankato State University


CONCOL

Elsie Welter Natural History Museum of Concordia College

The Elsie Welter Natural History Museum is located on the first floor of the Integrated Science Center (ISC) at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. The museum was named after influential area bird-watcher, world traveller, and Concordia adjunct biology professor Elsie M. Welter. The collections housed at the museum contain specimens in the areas of ornithology, mammalogy, entomology, botany, and malacology. The museum is open for students and researchers at Concordia College, with public outreach programs underway.
Contact: Joseph Whittaker (jwhittak@cord.edu)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 0c7df88f-939e-4398-b9ab-e06c320dc598
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Concordia College


UMN-MSP LTER

Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area Long Term Ecological Research Program

The Minneapolis-St. Paul Metropolitan Area (MSP) Long Term Ecological Research program brings together dozens of researchers from the University of Minnesota, University of St. Thomas, USDA Forest Service, The Nature Conservancy, and Water Bar, to study how urban stressors affect the ecological structure and functioning of urban nature, including for pollinators, the urban forest, urban watersheds, and lakes and streams. Researchers also are exploring how disparities in who benefits most from urban nature have arisen and might be overcome. Researchers are studying diverse environmental policies and practices across numerous MSP municipalities to understand which ones best improve environmental outcomes for all residents. MSP researchers will engage with historically underserved BIPOC community partners in inclusive research that de-centers whiteness, and determine how such engagement changes researchers, community partners, and long-term urban nature research outcomes. Middle school learners will engage with MSP to learn state standards in Earth and life science through field trips to the Bell Museum and through urban nature-based learning activities in their own communities.
Contact: Mary Marek-Spartz (patt0335@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: f5f8ebe4-c462-42af-a5f8-f77942d9f8d3
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to MSP LTER policies.


UMN EXT

Minnesota Bee Atlas

Operating from 2015-2020, the Minnesota Bee Atlas engaged citizen science volunteers in three protocol areas to study the diversity and distribution of native bees. This data includes observation and specimen records from Bee Atlas volunteers as well as specimen records from the University of Minnesota Bee Lab. Please contact Elaine Evans, Extension Educator and Bee Researcher at elainee@umn.edu, with questions. Funding for this project was provided by the Minnesota Environment and Natural Resources Trust Fund as recommended by the Legislative-Citizen Commission on Minnesota Resources (LCCMR)
Contact: Elaine Evans (elainee@umn.edu)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 4ec88921-2daf-417d-8ad8-f99f55a91a5c
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: University of Minnesota
Access Rights: Users are required to adhere to University of Minnesota collections policy. Questions may be directed to Britt Forsberg


SMM

Science Museum of Minnesota

Contact: Charlie Iverson (civerson@smm.org)
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 289aa421-7aa4-4855-94de-b7ebb9e11917
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Digital Metadata: EML File


UMN-MIN

University of Minnesota Herbarium acquisitions pending accessioning

These are placeholder records of Minnesota Biological Survey specimens that have been deposited with the Herbarium but are not yet mounted and accessioned. Once the specimens are accessioned, the records will be deleted from this observation collection and added to the MIN-Plants specimens collection.
Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 431b07d9-b7b2-4d40-a75a-a7a842b51ee7
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Digital Metadata: EML File


USACE

Biodiversity of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi Headwaters Recreation Area Sites

Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 28 July 2022
Digital Metadata: EML File


DNR

Minnesota Biological Survey aquatic plants

Plant observations from more than 2,000 surveys of aquatic plants on Minnesota lakes and rivers taken by Karen Myhre of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Biological Survey from 1995-2016.
Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Data snapshot of local collection database
Last Update: 10 June 2024
Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources


DNR-MBS

Minnesota Biological Survey vegetation releves

Plant species occurrence data from 11,126 vegetation plots collected by the Minnesota Biological Survey Minnesota Department of Natural Resources throughout the State of Minnesota between 1986 and 2019.
Contact: Bruce Carlson (Bruce.Carlson@state.mn.us)
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: fd845849-cd61-4301-83bb-ebd0267b0d70
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Digital Metadata: EML File
Rights Holder: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources


NGBRC

Plant records from the New Guinea Binatang Research Center

Contact:
Collection Type: Observations
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: bd319659-784a-4fde-a802-2e7e64b3eee5
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Digital Metadata: EML File

Test Collection

Dummy collection for use in running tests, e.g. SQL code, batch updates, snapshotting procedures, etc.
Contact:
Collection Type: Preserved Specimens
Management: Live Data managed directly within data portal
Global Unique Identifier: 58825c28-9464-4a6e-a1b4-2fb90889acb7
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Digital Metadata: EML File

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