Curation of the Florida Museum of Natural History Paleobotanical Collection

佛罗里达自然历史博物馆古植物收藏的策展

• 批准号: 9631371
• 负责人: David Dilcher
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Florida
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-08-15 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9631371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curation; Florida; Museum; Natural; History

9631371 Dilcher A collection of over 100,000 fossil plants is housed at the Florida Museum of Natural History. This collection was originally organized by the PI, David Dilcher, and his students and colleagues. It was added to by regular collections made from the Eocene plant-bearing areas in western Tennessee and Kentucky, the coal mines in Indiana and Cretaceous clays in Kansas and Nebraska. Major contributions were made by co-PI Steven Manchester for his research on the Eocene and Paleocene fossil plants from western states. In addition to its areas of concentration, the collection now includes fossil plants from all over the world and many sites in the USA. This collection has become a major resource in the world and is visited regularly by people studying fossil plants from USA and other countries. Currently, there is no collection manager, and the collection is not well organized. This project is a three year program to fund a Collection Manager position and provide some student assistance to catalogue and organize the specimens. When this collection is properly curated, it will be a national resource accessible and useful to the scientific community. The University of Florida is partnering with NSF to support this collection by maintaining the Collection Manager as a permanent position after the expiration of the grant.

佛罗里达自然历史博物馆收藏了超过10万种植物化石。这个集合最初是由PI大卫迪尔彻和他的学生和同事组织的。从田纳西州西部和肯塔基州的始新世植物生长区、印第安纳州的煤矿以及堪萨斯和内布拉斯加州的白垩纪粘土中定期采集，也增加了这一点。主要贡献是由共同PI史蒂芬曼彻斯特为他的研究始新世和古新世植物化石从西部各州。除了其集中的领域，收集现在包括化石植物来自世界各地和许多网站在美国。这些化石已成为世界上的主要资源，经常被来自美国和其他国家的化石植物研究人员访问。目前，没有收集管理员，收集工作也没有得到很好的组织。 这个项目是一个为期三年的计划，以资助收集经理的位置，并提供一些学生帮助目录和组织标本。当这些收藏品得到适当的管理时，它将成为科学界可以使用和有用的国家资源。佛罗里达大学与NSF合作，通过在拨款到期后将收藏经理作为永久职位来支持这一收藏。