Curation of Silurian and Upper Paleozoic through Tertiary Fossil Collections at the Milwaukee Public Museum

这个更新项目将完成密尔沃基公共博物馆无脊椎动物化石收藏的管理和计算机化。所有标本将被分配地点编号，并准备数据集，其中包括地点、地质年龄、地层位置和组成动物群的详细信息。这些藏品具有特别的价值，因为它们包含了威斯康星州东南部最大的志留纪化石收藏。许多标本是地质学家在本世纪初从一些地方收集的，这些地方现在已经无法回忆起来了，因为它们现在有了建筑物，或者是采石场，现在被水或填埋了。该项目将保护藏品的完整性，并确保它们将被保存下来，供科学界未来研究使用。

This renewal project will complete the curation and computerization of the invertebrate fossil collections at the Milwaukee Public Museum. All specimens will be assigned locality numbers and data sets will be prepared with detailed information on locality, geologic age, stratigraphic position, and constituent fauna. These collections are of particular value because they contain the largest available collections of southeastern Wisconsin Silurian fossils. Many of the specimens are the result of collecting efforts by geologists early in this century from localities that can no longer be recollected because they now have buildings on them or they are quarries that are now water- or land-filled. The project will protect the integrity of the collections and assure that they will be preserved and made available to the scientific community for future study.