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。该系列具有世界上其他地方无法比拟的地理和水深优势。该收藏包括来自世界海洋大多数地区的93,500多个整个浮游动物样本和108个标本，广泛而密集地覆盖了太平洋的地理范围。它包括超过30,800个经过分类和鉴定的标本。该系列包括1949年开始的东北太平洋连续采样的独特和持续的时间序列。收藏包括广泛的探险收藏，以及从深度到4000米的1780多个浮游动物拖网。从1995年初开始，可以在互联网上搜索这一收藏。浮游无脊椎动物收藏目前分为两个地点。超过80%的藏品被安置在抗震保护措施不足且没有隔热的结构中。高温（至34.4摄氏度）和大范围的每日温度变化（至10.2摄氏度）最终将加速保存液的蒸发损失、pH值变化，并可能最终导致收集标本的长期降解。为子孙后代谨慎管理这一收藏表明，收藏搬迁到一个新的设施是必不可少的。一个建筑可以容纳所有浮游无脊椎动物收藏在一个单一的位置。将藏品搬迁到这座建筑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)通过在所有收集架上安装防震杆来提高地震安全性；(3)巩固所有浮游无脊椎动物收集库；(4)通过将收集材料放置在靠近研究实验室的校园中心位置来改善获取收集材料的途径；(5)彻底重组收集库；(6)对未来增长的准备。

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.