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Improvement of Curation of Vertebrate Paleontological Collection

古脊椎动物收藏馆藏的改进

基本信息

批准号：
8913180
负责人：
William Clemens
金额：
$ 22.26万
依托单位：
University of California-Berkeley
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
1990
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1990-03-15 至 1993-02-28
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8913180&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
Improvement Curation Vertebrate Paleontological Collection

项目摘要

The fossil vertebrate collections of the Museum of Paleontology, University of California, Berkeley, are among the world's most important. These collections comprise more than 140,000 catalogued specimens, and they provide one of the most complete representations of the history of the North American vertebrate fauna available today. The University's Department of Paleontology has recently become part of a new Department of Integrative Biology, and the collections will be moved into renovated quarters in the Life Sciences Building, along with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. Combining the zoology and paleontology faculties, and juxtaposing the fossil and Recent vertebrate collections, will make the new department a center for the study of vertebrate evolution. Dr. William Clemens will oversee the transfer of the collections to new compactorized storage areas. Accessibility to specimens will be improved greatly, and the new quarters will support many years of continued collection growth. Collections of fossils are the libraries in which the history of life can be studied. Growth and improvement of these collections is vital to evolutionary studies, and to our understanding of the history of life on earth. The proposed collection improvement will benefit paleontologists, geologists, vertebrate zoologists, biogeographers, and evolutionary biologists around the world.

加州大学伯克利分校古生物学博物馆收藏的脊椎动物化石是世界上最重要的。这些藏品包括超过140,000个编目标本，它们提供了当今北美脊椎动物动物群历史最完整的代表之一。该大学的古生物学系最近成为新成立的综合生物学系的一部分，这些藏品将与脊椎动物博物馆一起搬进生命科学大楼的翻新宿舍。将动物学和古生物学院系结合起来，并将化石和现代脊椎动物收藏放在一起，将使这个新部门成为脊椎动物进化研究的中心。威廉·克莱门斯博士将监督藏品转移到新的压缩存储区。对标本的获取将大大改善，新馆区将支持多年的持续收藏增长。化石收藏是研究生命史的图书馆。这些藏品的增长和改进对进化研究和我们对地球生命历史的理解至关重要。建议的收集改进将使全世界的古生物学家、地质学家、脊椎动物动物学家、生物地理学家和进化生物学家受益。