Support for the Mammal Collection of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California at Berkeley

支持加州大学伯克利分校脊椎动物博物馆的哺乳动物收藏

• 批准号: 9221750
• 负责人: James Patton
• 金额: $ 22.43万
• 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: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-06-01 至 1995-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9221750&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Mammal; Collection; Museum; Vertebrate

This project will improve the housing and curation of the mammal research collection (182,000 specimens; third largest in US) in concert with a planned relocation of the collection to new facilities. Specific improvements will involve: (1) replacing older inadequate storage cases and wet-specimen containers; (2) adding new cases to accommodate past and anticipated growth. The institution will expend 80 million to renovate the new facility for occupancy by the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, Museum of Paleontology, and the University & Jepson Herbaria. Renovations include a doubling of MVZ collection space and installation of temperature and humidity controls. The University will also assume all costs of collection relocation. This support will provide much better access to the collection for research scientists and students and will further the preservation and use of the collection in biodiversity research. %%% This project will improve the conservation and accessibility of the mammal research collection at the University of California, Berkeley, by replacing antiquated inadequate cases and by accommodating space for collection growth. This improvement will occur in concert with a move of the collection to new facilities and will increase the access to the collection by research scientists and students involved in biodiversity projects.

该项目将改善哺乳动物研究藏品(182,000件标本；美国第三大标本)的住房和管理，同时计划将藏品搬迁到新设施。具体的改进将包括：(1)更换旧的不适当的储存箱和湿标本容器；(2)增加新的储存箱，以适应过去和预期的增长。该机构将花费8000万美元翻新新设施，供脊椎动物博物馆、古生物学博物馆和赫巴里亚大学杰普森分校使用。翻新包括将MVZ收集空间增加一倍，并安装温度和湿度控制。该大学还将承担藏品搬迁的所有费用。这一支持将为研究科学家和学生提供更好的获取收藏品的途径，并将进一步保护和利用这些收藏品进行生物多样性研究。%该项目将通过取代过时的不适当的案例并为收藏增长提供空间，来改善加州大学伯克利分校哺乳动物研究收藏的保护和获取。这一改进将与将收藏品转移到新设施相一致，并将增加参与生物多样性项目的研究科学家和学生获得收藏品的机会。