Upgrading of Mollusk Collection, Los Angeles County Museum

洛杉矶县博物馆软体动物收藏升级

• 批准号: 8711999
• 负责人: James McLean
• 金额: $ 16.92万
• 依托单位: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1987
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1987-12-01 至 1991-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8711999&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Upgrading; Mollusk; Collection; Los; Angeles

The malacology collection of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is the largest in the western United States and the third largest in the country. Its representation of the Eastern Pacific marine fauna is the most complete in existence and has been used by all modern workers studying the region. Additionally, the collection is strong in small-sized species worldwide and has significant holdings of non-marine mollusks. Previous awards have allowed the collection to begin computerizing its holdings. Locality data from a total of nearly 8,000 stations from fully documented expedition sources have been standardized and entered into the computer. The current project has five major objectives: 1) Expansion and rearrangement of the marine reference collection to integrate the three regional collections into a single systematically- arranged collection. 2) Curation of the newly acquired collection of Recent mollusks from the University of California at Los Angeles. 3) Curation of a large survey collection made off southern California under the auspices of the Bureau of Land Management. 4) Computer entry of data for specimens in the type collection. 5) Continuation of support for visiting investigators who will examine and re-arrange portions of the collection.

洛杉矶县自然历史博物馆的线虫学藏品是美国西部最大的，也是全国第三大的。它对东太平洋海洋动物群的描述是现存最完整的，所有研究该地区的现代工作者都使用它。此外，该收藏在世界范围内的小型物种中很强大，并拥有大量的非海洋软体动物。以前的奖项已经允许该收藏开始计算机化其藏品。来自记录完整的考察来源的总计近8000个站点的地点数据已被标准化并输入计算机。目前的项目有五个主要目标：1)扩展和重新安排海洋参考馆藏，将三个区域的馆藏整合为一个系统的馆藏。2)管理从加州大学洛杉矶分校新获得的《近代软体动物》藏品。3)管理在土地管理局的支持下从南加州采集的大型调查藏品。4)用计算机输入类型藏品标本的数据。5)继续支持访问调查人员，他们将检查和重新安排部分收集。