Relocation of the Planktonic Invertebrates Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography

该项目将支持改进加州大学圣地亚哥分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所的浮游无脊椎动物收藏。这个集合具有世界其他地方无与伦比的地理和水深优势。馆藏包括93,500多个完整的浮游动物样本和来自世界海洋大部分区域的108个标本，太平洋的地理覆盖面广泛而密集。它包括30,800多个分类的、经鉴定的标本。其中包括1949年开始对东北太平洋进行连续采样的独特且持续的时间序列。这些藏品包括广泛的探险收藏，以及从深度到4000米的1780多条浮游动物拖网。从1995年初开始，可以在因特网上搜索到这本藏书的藏品。浮游无脊椎动物收藏目前分为两个地点。超过80%的藏品被安置在一个没有足够的抗震保护和隔热的结构中。高温(至34.4摄氏度)和较大的日温度变化(至10.2摄氏度)最终将加速保存液的蒸发损失，pH变化，并最终可能导致收集标本的长期退化。为后代谨慎地管理这些藏品表明，将藏品搬迁到一个新的设施是必要的。一座建筑已经可以在一个地点容纳所有浮游无脊椎动物收藏。将收藏搬到这座大楼将实现几个理想的目标：(1)缓冲标本经历的温度变化，从而确保标本的长期物理完整性，(2)通过在所有收藏架上安装地震棒来提高地震安全性，(3)巩固所有浮游无脊椎动物收藏，(4)通过将收藏材料放置在靠近研究实验室的中心校园位置，改进收集材料的获取，(5)完全重组收藏收藏，以及(6)为未来的增长做好准备。

This project will support improvements for the Planktonic Invertebrates Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. This Collections has geographic and bathymetric strengths unequaled elsewhere in the world. The Collection includes over 93,500 whole zooplankton samples and 10 8 specimens from most regions of the world ocean, with extensive and intensive geographic coverage of the Pacific. It includes more than 30,800 sorted, identified specimens. The collection includes a unique and ongoing time series of continuous sampling of the Northeast Pacific ocean that began in 1949. The collection includes extensive expeditionary collections, as well as over 1,780 zooplankton trawls from depths ranging to 4,000m. Beginning in early 1995 holdings of this Collection will be searchable on the Internet. The Planktonic Invertebrates Collection is currently divided into 2 locations. More the 80% of the collection is housed in a structure that has inadequate seismic safeguards and no thermal insulation. High temperatures (to 34.4 degrees C) and ext ensive daily temperature variations (to 10.2 degrees C) will eventually accelerate evaporative losses of preserving fluids, pH changes, and could ultimately lead to long term degradation of collection specimens. Prudent management of this Collection for posterity suggests that relocation of the Collection to a new facility is essential. A building has become available to house all of the Planktonic Invertebrates Collection in a single location. Relocation the collection to this building would accomplish several desirable goals: (1) Buffering of temperature variations experienced by the samples, thus ensuring long term physical integrity of specimens, (2) improvement of seismic safety through installation of earthquake bars on all collection shelving, (3) consolidation of all Planktonic Invertebrates Collection holdings, (4) improvement of access to collection materials by placing them in a central campus location close to research laboratories, (5) complete re-organization of Collection holdings, and (6) provision for future growth.