Support for Paleobotanical Collections at Field Museum

对菲尔德博物馆古植物收藏的支持

• 批准号: 9616443
• 负责人: Peter Crane
• 金额: $ 28.75万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-01-15 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9616443&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Paleobotanical; Collections; Field; Museum

9616443 Crane The paleobotanical collections of the field Museum are an important national and international resource for systematic plant biology. In the past five years these collections have grown by over 7800 specimens (10%), and currently total approximately 77,800 specimens. This collection is severely overcrowded in its current quarters, and many specimens cannot currently be accommodated within the collection space. The Field Museum has recently constructed new collections space at a cost of $4.25 million; of this space 1,929 square feet (worth $240,000) have been dedicated to the paleobotanical collection. The Field Museum is also providing graduate student and summer intern stipends to match the graduate student stipends and equipment funded by NSF. The total cost of the project is $550,000, of which the Field Museum has or will carry 48%, in partnership with the NSF. Once the project is complete, the paleobotanical collections will be moved into new compactorized storage near the neontological plant collections, have no backlog (as that will be integrated into the collections as part of the move), and a detailed description of the entire collection will be available on the World Wide Web. This project will also benefit the Field Museum's other fossil collections, as they will be moved into space vacated by the paleobotanical specimens, thus alleviating overcrowding in vertebrate and invertebrate paleontology.

9616443 Crane野外博物馆的古植物馆藏是系统植物生物学研究的重要国内外资源。在过去的五年中，这些藏品增加了7800多个标本（10%），目前总数约为77,800个标本。这个收藏在目前的区域严重拥挤，许多标本目前无法容纳在收藏空间内。菲尔德博物馆最近耗资425万美元建造了新的收藏空间；在这个空间中，1929平方英尺（价值24万美元）专门用于古植物学收藏。菲尔德博物馆还提供研究生和暑期实习生津贴，以匹配由美国国家科学基金会资助的研究生津贴和设备。该项目的总成本为55万美元，菲尔德博物馆与美国国家科学基金会合作承担或将承担其中的48%。一旦项目完成，古植物学收藏品将被转移到新植物收藏品附近的新压缩存储中，没有积压（因为这将作为移动的一部分整合到收藏品中），并且整个收藏品的详细描述将在万维网上提供。这个项目也将有利于菲尔德博物馆的其他化石收藏，因为它们将被转移到古植物标本腾出的空间，从而缓解脊椎动物和无脊椎动物古生物学的拥挤。