Improvement of Historically Important CAS Wet-Preserved Invertebrate Collections

该项目的管理计划是在未来三年内对湿保存的无脊椎动物收藏中估计50，750个未分配的标本批次进行分类、分类学升级和计算机收集事件数据。未分配的材料包括来自旧金山弗朗西斯科湾、哥伦比亚河口、蒙特雷湾和库斯湾的几个大型收藏。 厄尔尼诺现象造成的海表温度等温线的垂直变化一般会导致东太平洋无脊椎动物种群的变化。 这类历史性的变化可以记录在现在未分配的材料中保存的旧收藏中。 从旧金山弗朗西斯科湾和东北太平洋其他沿海地区的重要底栖动物的收藏品作为无脊椎动物种群水平和多样性的历史标志具有很大的价值。 特别是旧金山弗朗西斯科湾的收藏是独特的，因为它是一个动物群变化的历史记录，受到人类发展和非本土生物连续入侵的严重影响。 这些数据在其他地方是不可用的，随着公众和科学界对这些问题的关注日益增加，处理构成数据的标本的动力达到了前所未有的高度。对于内部专业知识可用的团体，工作人员将细化这些初步的分类分配。 然后，这些标本批次将被搁置在主要的分类学收藏中。 应邀来访的科学家将进一步改进分类学，这将有助于确定标本和传播内部没有专门知识的分类群的数据，并为学生和志愿者提供非正式培训和技术支持，这些培训和技术支持已成为部门活动的一个组成部分。将通过CAS万维网网页以及互联网上的Crust-L（甲壳纲）和软体动物名录公布已登记和分类分配的标本。 注意事项还将转到ASC通讯，甲壳动物生物学杂志，甲壳动物，棘皮动物通讯，Chaetozone（多毛类电子通讯），系统生物学和Veliger。

The management plan for this project is to sort, taxonomically upgrade, and computerize collection event data for the estimated 50,750 unallocated specimen lots in the wet-preserved invertebrate collection over the next three years.The unallocated material includes several large collections from San Francisco Bay, the mouth of the Columbia River, Monterey Bay, and Coos Bay. Latitudinal shifts in sea surface temperature isotherms due to El Ninos can result in invertebrate faunal population changes in the eastern Pacific in general. Historical shifts of this type can be recorded in the older collections now held in the unallocated material. The significant benthic collections from San Francisco Bay and other coastal localities of the Northeast Pacific have great value as historical markers of invertebrate population levels and diversity. The San Francisco Bay collections in particular are unique as a historical record of changes in a fauna heavily impacted by human development and successive invasions of non-indigenous organisms. These data are not available elsewhere, and with increasing public and scientific concern over these issues, the impetus to process the specimens constituting the data is at an all-time high.For groups in which in-house expertise is available, staff will refine these initial taxonomic allocations of the lots sorted to species level. The specimen lots will then be shelved in the main taxonomic collection. Further taxonomic refinement by invited visiting scientists will assist in identifying specimens and disseminating data from those taxa for which in-house expertise is not available and to provide informal training and technical support to the students and volunteers that have become an integral part of departmental activities.Availability of the newly sorted, accessioned and taxonomically allocated specimens will be announced via the CAS WWW page as well as the Crust-L (Crustacea), and Mollusca lists on the Internet. Notes will also go to the ASC Newsletter, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Crustaceana, Echinoderm Newsletter, Chaetozone (Polychaeta e-newsletter), Systematic Biology and Veliger.