Support for the Improvement, Care, and Use of the Entomological Collection at the California Academy of Sciences

支持加州科学院昆虫学收藏的改进、维护和使用

• 批准号: 9024215
• 负责人: David Kavanaugh
• 金额: $ 100.07万
• 依托单位: California Academy of Sciences
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-09-01 至 1997-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9024215&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Improvement; Care; Use; Entomological

The Entomology Collection of the California Academy of Sciences contains approximately 12.4 million specimens representing 300,000 species, and it ranks among the largest and most actively used insect collections in the world. It is the principal collection of its type in the western U.S. Dr. David Kavanaugh, Curator in charge of the collection, has devised an ambitious plan to improve the curation and availability of the collection. New storage trays and identification labels will enhance the utility of the collection to visiting researchers and to the collection management staff. Many important collections that are currently inaccessible will be processed and made readily available to visiting investigators and through the Academy's specimen loan program. The proposed collection improvement project will increase the collection's research impact significantly, and will help to assure the long-term safety of irreplaceable research specimens. Collections of natural history specimens such as this one are unique resources for the study of biological diversity. Future generations of research will rely on the continued growth and improvement of museum collections.

加州科学院昆虫学馆藏有约1240万个标本，代表300,000个物种，是世界上规模最大、使用最活跃的昆虫馆藏之一。它是美国西部同类藏品中的主要藏品。负责该藏品的馆长大卫·卡瓦诺博士制定了一项雄心勃勃的计划，以改善藏品的管理和可用性。新的存储托盘和识别标签将提高收藏品对访问研究人员和收藏品管理人员的效用。许多目前无法获取的重要藏品将被处理，并通过学院的标本借阅计划随时提供给来访的调查人员。拟议的收藏改进项目将显著增加收藏的研究影响，并有助于确保不可替代的研究标本的长期安全。像这样的自然历史标本收藏是研究生物多样性的独特资源。未来的研究将依赖于博物馆藏品的持续增长和改进。