A New Facility for the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates: Moving, Compactors, and Cases

康奈尔大学脊椎动物博物馆的新设施：移动、压实机和箱子

• 批准号: 0138123
• 负责人: Amy McCune
• 金额: $ 46万
• 依托单位: Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010
• 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: 2002-07-01 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0138123&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Facility; Cornell; University; Museum

This project partially supports the move of the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates (CUMV) to a new museum facility in a building currently under construction at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology (CLO). Cornell has raised over $6M (out of a total project cost of about $32M) for the new museum space in this building, which is on schedule for occupation in 2003. NSF Funds will be used to: (1) purchase compact shelving and cases for storage of both fluid-preserved specimens and dry specimens (skins, skeletons, nests, and eggs) of vertebrates (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals) and (2) provide partial funding for moving the collections into the new facility. This move will be the largest single enhancement to the CUMV in more than three decades: the new home for the Museum will relieve crowding of specimens, allow expansion space and safeguard the collections against a variety of problems related to the deterioration of the current facility. The new museum will also include a state-of-the art preparation facility, large teaching laboratory, radiography room, preparation lab, dermestid room, walk-in freezer, and molecular laboratory. The CUMV is an active university research museum of national importance. Students and staff are actively engaged in original research, and students are trained in curatorial techniques while they help disseminate the information in the Museum to scientists and wildlife managers throughout the globe. The CUMV contains one of the most comprehensive collections of fish, birds and mammals from the Northeastern United States, and its holdings are widely representative of the diversity of vertebrates throughout the world. Museum specimens are irreplaceable sources of data documenting changes in ecological conditions, both through the identity of specimens collected from pristine localities before alteration by humans, and through the tissues that specimens contain, which provide a biochemical window into the genetics of historical populations as well as the levels of pollutants their environments once contained. These collections thus provide measures of baseline conditions and, through continued accessions, on-going monitoring of the effects of environmental changes. Staff of the CUMV will collaborate with the large community of vertebrate biologists at the Laboratory of Ornithology to increase the information stored in and interpreted from the Museum's collections, and to disseminate the knowledge attained through the variety of web and media outlets.

该项目部分支持康奈尔大学脊椎动物博物馆（CUMV）搬迁到康奈尔鸟类学实验室（CLO）正在建设的建筑中的新博物馆设施。康奈尔大学已经为这座建筑的新博物馆空间筹集了600多万美元（总项目成本约为3200万美元），按计划将于2003年投入使用。NSF基金将用于：(1)购买紧凑的架子和箱子，用于储存脊椎动物（鱼类、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类、哺乳动物）的液体保存标本和干燥标本（皮肤、骨骼、巢和蛋）；(2)提供部分资金，用于将这些藏品搬进新设施。这将是三十多年来对CUMV最大的一次改进：博物馆的新家将缓解标本的拥挤，允许扩展空间，并保护藏品免受与当前设施恶化有关的各种问题。新博物馆还将包括一个国家的最先进的准备设施，大型教学实验室，放射线室，准备实验室，脱皮室，步入式冷冻室，和分子实验室。CUMV是一个活跃的大学研究博物馆，具有国家重要性。学生和工作人员积极从事原创性研究，学生在帮助向全球科学家和野生动物管理人员传播博物馆信息的同时，还接受了策展技术方面的培训。CUMV拥有美国东北部最全面的鱼类、鸟类和哺乳动物收藏，其藏品广泛代表了世界各地脊椎动物的多样性。博物馆标本是记录生态条件变化的不可替代的数据来源，无论是通过在人类改变之前从原始地区收集的标本的身份，还是通过标本所含的组织，它们提供了一个了解历史种群遗传学的生化窗口，以及他们的环境曾经包含的污染物水平。因此，这些收集提供了基线条件的措施，并通过持续的获取，对环境变化的影响进行持续监测。该中心的工作人员将与鸟类实验室的大型脊椎动物生物学家合作，增加博物馆馆藏的信息存储和解释，并通过各种网络和媒体渠道传播所获得的知识。