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

该项目将升级和重组圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆的古生物学收藏。 这些藏品包括超过一百万件脊椎动物、无脊椎动物和植物化石标本，主要收集自南加州和墨西哥下加利福尼亚北方的中生代至新生代遗址。 自1994年以来，古生物学藏品平均每年增长8%，因此藏品已经超过了目前的空间。 许多项目都储存在拥挤的条件下，在个别标本抽屉，开放式货架上，并在案件的顶部。 数据库不完整。 搬迁到新的空间后，有可能重新整理收藏品，并实现完全计算机化和数据库化。 将在一个可完全检索和上网的数据库中提供计算机化的收藏。

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.