Dave Smith Petrology Collections Manager NA EMu Users Meeting, 21-22 nd October 2008

2. Can EMu be used as a tool for pest management? Dave Smith Petrology Collections Manager NA EMu Users Meeting, 21-22nd October 2008

3. What is Pest Management? • Standards of Collections Care • Implementation of protocols and procedure • Programme of monitoring • Reaction to situations • Proactive action • Applicable to all collections consisting of soft furnishings, natural fibres, and animal pelts & skeletons • Universally applicable • Prevent Pest damage to collections

4. Monitoring • Sticky pest traps • Pheromone traps • Fortnightly – monthly • Database • Analysis • Reporting

5. Total insects caught during summer 2003

6. Total insects caught during summer 2003

7. Total beetles caught during summer 2003

8. Guernsey carpet beetle • Anthrenus sarnicus

9. Total carpet beetle caught during summer 2003

10. Comparison of data year on year 2003 • Comparison of numbers • Comparable • Comparison of patterns • Similar • Peak offset by ~2 weeks 2004

11. Distribution of carpet beetle by trap in 2003

12. What if……. • …we could plot this data on the plans of the Museum? • …we could query the data and see the results displayed on the plans? • …we could display data for the same time period, but from different years to analyse for seasonal patterns? • WE CAN….

13. The Object Locator

16. Query display • Query the familiar EMu interface • Show traps where • between 1st April & 31st August 2003 • Name = Guernsey Carpet Beetle • Lifestage = larva • Total in any trap >= 2

17. Query display

18. 3 Results

22. View details • 3 traps selected • 5 records found • List • Summary data • Record IRN • X-Y-Z • Hyperlink to details

23. How does it work? • Bitmap of museum plans • Define X-Y-Z grid system for building

24. How does it work? Z Y X

25. How does it work? • Bitmap of museum plans • Define X-Y-Z grid system for building • Each trap has a unique X-Y-Z co-ordinate • Each trap is given a Location record into which this X-Y-Z co-ordinate is recorded

26. Pest Trap Location – in the building

27. Pest Trap Location – on the Object Locator

28. What development is required? • A new Pest Event Module. • 1or 2 new tabs. • Minimum data fields (as defined by MuseumPests.net) • Trap Number • Type of trap • Location • Date checked • Species • Life stage • Count

29. Possible Pest Event Tab 3

30. Temporal Trends

31. Temporal data Spatial data Visualisation Combining Dimensional data

32. Spatial comparison of Anthrenus

33. Phase 2 • More to pest management than pest trapping • Monitoring of collection store environments (T/h) • Association of certain species with environmental conditions • Room (ambient)  cupboard/drawer  container • Relocate specimens according to suitability to the environment • The ‘i’ in IPM means “Integrated” • Phase 2 is to integrate environmental data.

34. Threshold Statistics Environmental monitoring data Loggers around the museum show us temperature and humidity readings which may indicate where insects could become a problem or are already a problem but we can’t see it yet! Temperature (red) Humidity (blue)

35. Environmental monitoring data

36. Conclusion • Pest Management is universal • Visualisation is a powerful tool • Monitoring • Communication • Can EMu be used as a pest management tool? YES! • Object Locator provides platform for spatial visualisation

37. Conclusion • NHM has initiated discussion with KE Software to assess how much of GIS functionality can be mimicked in EMu. • Proportional symbology • Ability to observe temporal data on the plans • Seamless link to environmental data sources • The universal applicability of this functionality means that it should be developed by the EMu community for themselves. • So who’s in…?

38. Questions?

39. Wishful Thinking….

40. Temperature - humidity modelling Trap with Anthrenus Beetle >= 2 Sensor

41. Total insects caught during summer 2003