Curation of a Major Alaska, Arctic and West Coast Orphan Paleontological Collection

该项目将协助管理美国地质调查局最近转移到博物馆的大型，独特和不可替代的海洋无脊椎动物化石收藏。 这一系列中最重要的部分是阿拉斯加和北极的材料，其中包括从阿拉斯加许多地区收集的唯一化石标本。 门洛帕克收藏品目前存放在校外的一个地点，由于收藏品被匆忙转移并转移到加州大学古生物学博物馆，因此相当混乱。 因此，研究访问非常困难。 该项目将提供工作人员对收集进行编目，以便搬运工将阿拉斯加和北极的材料带到校园，并将其与UCMP化石无脊椎动物收藏品相结合，并进行额外的个案工作，以在UCMP收藏室容纳这些材料。 其余的材料，主要来自加州，俄勒冈州和华盛顿，将被编目和放置，以使其可用于科学研究，但将留在场外存储设施，由于校园的空间限制。该奖项将提供一个完整的物理重组的集合，提供高效和有效地访问这些独特的标本，提供一个完整的计算机本地数据库的集合，并增加收集数据的可用性研究界。

This project will assist in the curation of a large, unique, and irreplaceable collection of fossil marine invertebrates recently transferred to the museum by the U.S. Geological Survey. The most significant part of this collection is the Alaskan and Arctic material, which includes the only fossil specimens ever collected from many regions of Alaska. The Menlo Park Collection is currently stored in an off-campus site, in considerable disorder due to the haste with which the collection was transferred and moved to the University of California Museum of Paleontology. As a result, research access is very difficult. The project will provide staff to catalog the collection, for movers to bring the Alaska and Arctic material to campus and integrate it with the UCMP fossil invertebrate collections, and for additional casework to accommodate this material in the UCMP collection room. The remaining material, primarily from California, Oregon and Washington, will be cataloged and placed in order to make it accessible for scientific study, but will remain in an off-site storage facility due to space limitations on campus. This award will provide a complete physical reorganization of the collection, provide efficient and effective access to these unique specimens, provide a complete computer locality database of the collection, and increase the availability of collection data to the research community.