Support for the San Diego Natural History Museum Paleontology Collection: Mobile Compactor System and Collection Conservation to Enhance Access and Research Use

这个项目将升级和重组圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆的古生物收藏。这些藏品包括超过一百万的脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和植物化石标本，主要收集于加利福尼亚南部和墨西哥下加利福尼亚州北部的中生代至新生代遗址。自1994年以来，古生物收藏以平均每年8%的速度增长，因此收藏已经超出了目前的空间。许多物品被储存在拥挤的条件下，在单独的标本抽屉里，在开放的架子上，在箱子顶部。数据库不完整。搬到一个新的空间使得重新组织收藏成为可能，并使完全的计算机化和数据库化成为可能。计算机化的收集将在一个完全可搜索和可上网的数据库中提供。

This project will upgrade and reorganize the paleontology collections at the San Diego Museum of Natural History. The collections comprise over a million specimens of fossil vertebrates, invertebrates, and plants collected primarily from Mesozoic through Cenozoic sites in Southern California, and northern Baja California, Mexico. Since 1994, the paleontology collections have grown an average of 8% per year, and as a result the collection has outgrown its current space. Many items are stored in overcrowded conditions in individual specimen drawers, on open shelving, and on case tops. Databasing is incomplete. A move to a new space has made it possible to reorganize the collection and make feasible complete computerization and databasing. The computerized collections will be made available in a fully searchable, web-accessible database.