Integration and Enhancement of the Antarctic Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University

德克萨斯理工大学博物馆南极藏品的整合和增强

• 批准号: 0126095
• 负责人: Sankar Chatterjee
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0126095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Enhancement; Antarctic; Collection; Museum

This award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs, provides funds for the unification and upgrading of its Antarctic collection; its proper storage and curation; development of an electronic database; and network access. This award will support a collection manager for two years, installing modern, archival-quality steel cabinets, and rehousing, conserving, and barcoding the entire collection. These changes will vastly increase the availability and research potential of a significant and unique Antarctic collection, and they will help to preserve a rich cultural, historical, and scientific legacy. The Antarctic collection constitutes one of the best repositories of archival, geological and paleontological holdings in the nation. The archival collection was amassed over a fifty-year span and contains maps and rare books in addition to Antarctic research samples. The comprehensive igneous and metamorphic rock collection gathered from the orogenic belts of Queen Maud Range, Marie Byrd Land, and Ellsworth Land is important for understanding the paleotectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and West Antarctica. The paleontological collection includes exquisite plant fossils from the Allan Hills, which indicate a Gondwanian heritage for Antarctica. Several holotypes of Cretaceous vertebrates from Seymour Island, including Polarornis, the oldest known Antarctic bird, provide additional evidence for high latitude heterochroneity.

该奖项由极地方案办公室南极地质学和地球物理学方案提供，为统一和升级其南极收藏品、妥善储存和管理、开发电子数据库和网络接入提供资金。该奖项将支持收集经理两年，安装现代化的档案质量钢柜，并重新安置，保存和条形码的整个集合。这些变化将极大地增加重要和独特的南极收藏品的可用性和研究潜力，并将有助于保护丰富的文化，历史和科学遗产。南极收藏品是美国最好的档案、地质和古生物学收藏品库之一。这些档案收集了超过50年的时间，除了南极研究样本外，还包括地图和珍本书籍。从毛德皇后岭、玛丽伯德地和埃尔斯沃思地的造山带采集的综合性火成岩和变质岩集合对于了解横贯南极山脉和西南极洲的古构造演化具有重要意义。古生物学收藏包括来自艾伦山的精美植物化石，这表明南极洲的冈瓦纳遗产。在西摩岛发现的几种白垩纪脊椎动物的正模标本，包括已知最古老的南极鸟类--极鸟，为高纬度异时性提供了额外的证据。