SGER: Salvage of Valdez Bird Specimens

SGER：瓦尔迪兹鸟类标本的打捞

• 批准号: 9218534
• 负责人: Sievert Rohwer
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-07-15 至 1993-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9218534&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SGER; Salvage; Valdez; Bird; Specimens

This SGER will support the urgent salvage of approximately 3000 rare and valuable bird carcasses recovered from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The birds, stored in four enormous freezer vans, have been held as evidence in legal proceedings by the U.S. District Court for Alaska since 1989, but are now scheduled to be destroyed on or before September 30, 1992. Two basic reasons to salvage the Valdez birds are: (1) to complement the world's holdings of rare specimens; and (2) to provide rare material for important research on avian biology. The Valdez seabirds represent a Spring sampling, whereas most seabird holdings in museums are Summer/Fall. Further, 11 species of seabirds in the Valdez collection are represented by fewer than 100 skeletons in the world's collections, and four of the species are listed as either endangered or threatened. Other species that the PI will salvage can no longer be collected in large numbers to study morphological variation. Research projects made possible by the salvage collection include the study and recognition of new species (Red-faced and Pelagic Cormorants), the ecology of seabird molt, the origin (which breeding colony) of winter and early spring seabirds along the western coast, and growth patterns in seabirds. These specific studies will be cross-disciplinary, involving ecology, molecular and morphological systematics, population biology, and physiological ecology, and will enable a better understanding of avian systematics, breeding ecology and conservation biology.

该SGER将支持紧急救助约 3000只稀有珍贵的鸟类尸体从埃克森号上打捞上来 阿拉斯加威廉王子湾的巴尔德斯漏油事件。 鸟儿们， 在四个巨大的冷藏车，已被作为证据，在法律的 自1989年以来，美国阿拉斯加地区法院一直在进行诉讼，但 现定于一九九二年九月三十日或之前销毁。 抢救巴尔德斯鸟的两个基本原因是：（1）补充 世界上稀有的标本;（2）提供稀有的 鸟类生物学重要研究的材料。 巴尔德斯 海鸟代表春季采样，而大多数海鸟种群 在博物馆是夏天/秋天。 此外，11种海鸟在 巴尔德斯收藏的代表是不到100骨架在 世界上的收藏品，其中四个物种被列为 受到威胁或威胁。 PI将拯救的其他物种 不能再大量收集来研究形态学 变化量 打捞工作使研究项目成为可能 收集包括研究和识别新物种 （红脸鸬鹚和远洋鸬鹚）、海鸟蜕皮的生态学、 冬季和早春海鸟的起源（繁殖群体） 以及海鸟的生长模式。 这些 具体研究将是跨学科的，涉及生态学， 分子和形态系统学，种群生物学， 生理生态学，并将使更好地了解 鸟类系统学、繁殖生态学和保护生物学。