Relocation of the Planktonic Invertebrates Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography

该项目将支持圣地亚哥加州大学斯克里普斯海洋学研究所浮游无脊椎动物收集的改进。这些藏品具有世界上其他地方无法比拟的地理和水深优势。 该系列包括来自世界海洋大部分地区的93，500多个完整的浮游动物样本和108个标本，广泛而密集的地理覆盖太平洋。 它包括超过30，800个分类，识别的标本。 该系列包括从1949年开始对东北太平洋进行连续采样的独特和持续的时间序列。 该系列包括广泛的探险收集，以及超过1，780个浮游动物拖网，深度范围为4，000米。 从1995年初开始，可以在因特网上搜索这一收藏。 浮游无脊椎动物收藏馆目前分为两个地点。 超过80%的收藏品被安置在一个没有足够抗震保障和隔热的结构中。 高温（至34.4摄氏度）和每日温度变化（至10.2摄氏度）将最终加速保存液的蒸发损失，pH值变化，并最终导致采集标本的长期降解。 为子孙后代谨慎地管理这一收藏表明，将收藏迁移到新的设施是必不可少的。 一个建筑已经成为可容纳所有的浮游无脊椎动物收藏在一个单一的位置。 将收藏品搬迁到这座大楼将实现几个理想的目标：（1）缓冲样品所经历的温度变化，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杆来提高地震安全性，（3）合并所有浮游无脊椎动物收藏，（4）通过将收集的材料放置在靠近研究实验室的中央校园位置，改善对收集材料的访问，（5）完全重组收藏品，以及（6）为未来的增长提供资金。

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.