Support for the Field Museum Fossil Invertebrate Collection

支持菲尔德博物馆无脊椎动物化石收藏

• 批准号: 9728991
• 负责人: Scott Lidgard
• 金额: $ 6.33万
• 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: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-08-01 至 2001-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9728991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Field; Museum; Fossil; Invertebrate

The Field Museum's Fossil Invertebrate Collection is recognized internationally for its vast size and ongoing significance to research in systematics, evolution, and paleoecology. The collection includes about 320,000 specimen lots with as many as 2 million individual specimens. However, specimen overcrowding has hampered efforts to realize the full potential of the collection. Implementation of the project outlined in this proposal will result in a better organized, less crowded, and more easily accessible collection. The project will successfully address conservation issues, first by curating much of our backlog holdings, and second by alleviating crowding of specimens. The taxonomic division of this material and the integration of specimens into a temporal/systematic framework is viewed as the most practical and scientifically beneficial manner in which to treat it. This project outlines the reorganization and move of the entire collection, and additional primary curation by staff and visiting curators for type specimens, echinoderms and Paleozoic gastropods. The recent move of paleobotanical collections to new facilities has provided additional cabinet space more than sufficient for this need. The curation and incorporation of the backlog material in collections will result in effectively "new" specimens becoming available to the scientific community.

菲尔德博物馆的无脊椎动物化石收藏因其庞大的规模和对系统学、进化和古生态学研究的持续意义而在国际上得到认可。该藏品包括约32万件标本，以及多达200万件个体标本。然而，标本过度拥挤阻碍了充分发挥收藏品潜力的努力。实施本提案中概述的项目将产生更好的组织、不那么拥挤和更容易获得的收藏品。该项目将成功地解决保护问题，首先是通过管理我们积压的大部分藏品，其次是通过减轻标本的拥挤。对这种材料进行分类划分，并将标本整合到一个时间/系统框架中，被认为是处理这种材料的最实际和科学上有益的方式。该项目概述了整个馆藏的重组和搬迁，以及工作人员和来访馆长对模式标本、棘皮动物和古生代腹足类动物的额外初级管理。最近，古植物收藏搬到了新的设施中，提供了更多的橱柜空间，足以满足这一需求。对积压材料进行整理并将其纳入收藏，将使科学界能够有效地获得“新的”标本。