Support for the Bird Division Collections at The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

项目摘要：位于安阿伯的密执安大学在D. Mindell支持动物学博物馆鸟类部门（UMMZ-BD）的研究和教学收藏。 UMMZ-BD鸟类研究收藏品包括203，500多个标本，分为六种制备类型（皮肤，骨骼，液体，鸡蛋，巢和冷冻组织）。 仅研究皮肤收集就包括约171，600个样本。UMMZ-BD是两个或三个最大和最全面的收藏之一，与一所主要的研究型大学有联系，在系统生物学和生物多样性方面有一个积极和富有成效的研究生培训计划。 鸟类标本以其出色的分类学和地理覆盖范围而闻名，包括许多来自世界上相对偏远地区的罕见物种，许多物种的大量地理系列，以及316个全型（用于描述新物种的个体标本）。 目的是（1）购买新的标本箱，以取代旧的，在20世纪20年代到40年代建造的，不能提供足够的保护，免受昆虫，和（2）雇用馆长助理，以帮助移动和转移标本到新的情况。 新的，更高的情况下，额外的抽屉，也将更有效地利用现有的空间在鲁思文博物馆大楼在密歇根大学中心校园。 这将有助于缓解目前抽屉里标本拥挤的情况，并促进未来藏品的增长。该大学将购买大约137个新的双箱抽屉和79个新的单箱抽屉沿着与必要的无酸吸墨纸和托盘的抽屉。 将雇用一名馆长助理，为期14个月，协助将标本从旧病例转移到新病例。 Ruthven博物馆大楼的一个中转区将用于搬出旧箱子，并逐步接收新箱子。 美国国家科学基金会提供的资金将得到密歇根大学的大量配套资金的补充，包括支持购买新病例和改善UMMZ-BD的物理设施（空调）。该项目对促进知识和科学的潜在影响可描述如下。 保持广泛的UMMZ-BD鸟类收藏，并使其广泛提供给科学，教育和资源管理界和公众将加强未来的研究和教学领域的鸟类系统学（分子和形态学），进化，以及生态和保护的所有科学家和学生，国内和国际上，有兴趣在生物多样性研究的这些方面。 馆藏的维护对于完成UMMZ-BD的研究和教学任务也至关重要。

PROJECT ABSTRACT A grant has been awarded to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under the direction of Dr. D. Mindell to support the research and teaching collections in the Museum of Zoology Bird Division (UMMZ-BD). The UMMZ-BD avian research collections include over 203,500 specimens, divided among six preparation types (skins, skeletons, fluids, eggs, nests, and frozen tissues). The study skin collection alone includes about 171,600 specimens. The UMMZ-BD is one of the two or three largest and most comprehensive collections to be associated with a major research university having an active and productive graduate student training program in systematic biology and biodiversity. The ornithological collections are notable for their excellent taxonomic and geographic coverage, including many uncommon species from relatively remote areas of the world, for the large number of geographic series for many species, and for its 316 holotypes (individual specimens used to describe new species). The objectives are (1) to purchase new specimen cases to replace old ones, constructed during the 1920s through the 1940s, which do not provide sufficient protection from insects, and (2) to employ a Curatorial Assistant to help move and transfer specimens to the new cases. New, taller cases with additional drawers, will also make more efficient use of existing space in the Ruthven Museums Building on central campus at the University of Michigan. This will help to alleviate current crowding of specimens in drawers and facilitate future growth of the collections. The university will purchase approximately 137 new double cases with drawers and 79 new single cases with drawers along with the necessary acid-free blotting paper and trays for the drawers. A Curatorial Assistant will be hired for 14 months to assist in transferring specimens from the old to the new cases. A staging area in the Ruthven Museums Building will be used to move out old cases and receive shipments of new cases on an incremental basis. Funds provided by the National Science Foundation will be augmented by significant matching funds from the University of Michigan, including support toward the purchase of new cases and for physical facilities improvement (air conditioning) in the UMMZ-BD. The potential impact of the project on advancing knowledge and science may be described as follows. Maintaining the extensive UMMZ-BD avian collections and making them broadly available to the scientific, educational, and resource management communities and to the public will enhance future research and teaching in the areas of avian systematics (molecular and morphological), evolution, as well as ecology and conservation for all scientists and students, nationally and internationally, interested in these aspects of biodiversity research. Collections maintenance is also vital in fulfilling the UMMZ-BD's research and teaching missions.