Archiving the History of Life: High-Density Storage to Solve Space Needs for an Invertebrate Paleontology Research and Teaching Collection

归档生命历史：高密度存储解决无脊椎动物古生物学研究和教学馆藏的空间需求

• 批准号: 0346452
• 负责人: Bruce Lieberman
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-05-15 至 2010-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0346452&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Archiving; History; Life; Density; Storage

A grant has been awarded to The Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas for rehousing the Invertebrate fossils and microfossil collections. These fossil collections help to provide the principal basis for our understanding of past life and are useful in the exploration for petroleum reserves, coal, and mineral resources. The collection is integral to the program in paleontology at the University of Kansas. It consists of some 850,000 specimens from all parts of the world including more than 6,500 type or figured specimens that have been studied during the past 120 years. No space is available, however, to expand the collection. To alleviate crowding and provide space for expanding the collections, we will install a state-of-the-art, high-density storage system. The new storage system will comprise manual, mobile compactors that accommodate the existing cases and provide space for new storage cases, ultimately significantly expanding the division's collection capacity. This cost-effective, collection-improvement project will alleviate critical crowding of the collection and solve serious problems that stem from that crowding. Alleviating crowding will enable us to expand our collections, to house properly valuable research and teaching collections now in our possession, and to adopt orphaned collections that mesh with our long-term goals of teaching, research, and public service. Achieving these goals will enable us to develop both the breadth and depth of our collections, thereby enhancing their global impact on research, education, and public service.

授予了堪萨斯大学自然历史博物馆和生物多样性研究中心的赠款，用于重新安置无脊椎动物化石和微化石收集。这些化石收集有助于为我们理解过去的生活提供主要基础，并有助于探索石油储量，煤炭和矿产资源。该系列是堪萨斯大学古生物学计划的组成部分。它由来自世界各地的大约850,000个标本组成，其中包括过去120年来研究过的6,500多种类型或已研究的标本。 但是，没有空间可以扩展该集合。为了减轻拥挤并提供扩展收藏的空间，我们将安装最先进的高密度存储系统。 新的存储系统将包含手动压实器，可容纳现有案例并为新存储案例提供空间，最终大大扩大了该部门的收集能力。这个具有成本效益的收集改善项目将减轻收集的严重拥挤，并解决源于拥挤的严重问题。减轻拥挤的人将使我们能够扩展我们的收藏，现在拥有适当的宝贵研究和教学收藏，并采用与我们的长期教学，研究和公共服务目标相关的孤儿收藏。 实现这些目标将使我们能够发展收藏的广度和深度，从而增强其全球对研究，教育和公共服务的影响。