Compact Mobile Equipment for Relocation and Consolidation of the Benthic Invertebrate Collection of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography

底栖无脊椎动物收藏可以追溯到该机构成立于1903年，因此包含由其创始董事Wm制作的样本。E. Ritter和其他特许生物学家。 因此，连同其他收藏品，如圣地亚哥自然历史学会和洛杉矶县自然历史博物馆的收藏品，这些收藏品形成了一条基线，可以根据它来判断当地的变化。 另一方面，这些藏品在地理和水深方面的优势是该地区其他地方无法比拟的，如果在世界上的话。 该系列包括来自大多数海洋，特别是太平洋的超过75万份无脊椎动物标本，包括海洋螨和昆虫，并定期支持美国和国外以及当地调查人员的各种研究项目。 从世纪之交开始，通过卡片目录、1977年和1985年开始的出版目录和软盘、1996年初开始的互联网等形式，可以获得有关其藏品的信息，而且这些数据库还在不断扩大。 一座新的建筑（新里特大厅），以取代旧里特大厅的地震不安全的部分，目前正在建造的资金提供的加州大学由州议会。 斯克里普斯管理局已经在这个新设施中分配了空间来存放这些藏品。 然而，虽然新的空间足以容纳沃恩大厅现在收藏的主要部分，但它还不足以容纳所有现有的收藏，例如哈布斯大厅的藤壶收藏和一些最近的收购，在一个屋檐下，仍然为未来的增长提供空间。 因此，本项目将为安装小型移动的储存设备提供资金。

The Benthic Invertebrate Collection dates back to the institution's inception in 1903 and therfore contains samples made by its founding director, Wm. E. Ritter, and other charter biologists. Thus, together with other collections such as those of the San Diego Society of Natural History and the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum, this collection forms a base line against which local change can be judged. On the other hand, the collection has geographic and bathymetric strengths unequaled elsewhere in this region, if in the world. The collection includes over three quarters of a million invertebrate specimens, including marine mites and insects,from most oceans, especially the Pacific, and it regularly supports a variety of research projects of investigators in the US and abroad as well as locally. Information concerning its holdings have been available in the form of card catalogs dating back to the turn of the century, published catalogs and floppy disks beginning in 1977 and 1985 respectively, and on the Internet since early 1996, and these data bases continue to expand.The Benthic Invertebrate Collection is presently divided between three buildings. A new building (New Ritter Hall), to replace a seismically unsafe portion of Old Ritter Hall, is presently being constructed with funds provided the University of California by the State Legislature. The Scripps administration has allocated space in this new facility to house the collection. However, while the new space is adequate to house the principal part of the collection now in Vaughan Hall, it is not quite large enough to house all of the existing collection, such as the barnacle collection in Hubbs Hall and some recent acquisitions, under one roof and still provide for future growth. Therefore, this project will provide for the installation of compact mobile storage equipment.