Conservation of the Princeton Collection and Oversize Fossils at the Yale Peabody Museum

耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆的普林斯顿藏品和超大化石的保护

• 批准号: 0346678
• 负责人: Jacques Gauthier
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 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: 2004-08-15 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0346678&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conservation; Princeton; Collection; Oversize; Fossils

Conservation of the Princeton Collection and oversize fossils at the Yale Peabody Museum A grant has been awarded to Yale University under the direction of Jacques Gauthier to conserve fossils in the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History's (YPM) Princeton (PU) Collection, to conserve very large (oversized) YPM specimens, and to enhance databases associated with these parts of the collection. This grant will enable the Division to raise the curatorial standards of the collections and make them more accessible to researchers, staff, students, and the world at large. Orphaned in 1985 when Princeton University abandoned its paleontology program, the 15,000 PU specimens have never been properly housed. Especially well known for its South American mammals collected in the late 1890's, the PU Collection holds representatives of nearly every major vertebrate clade, including hundreds of irreplaceable Holotypes. This project will repair broken specimens, line trays with polyethylene foam, build supports for specimens as needed, including 245 supports for oversized specimens -- thereby improving the physical conditions of the specimens and their housing. This project will also inventory the entire PU Collection, as well as all specimens receiving conservation treatment, providing detailed physical location and element descriptions for each specimen. The inventory component will, through the YPM website, diversify the kind of data available and support a new level of utility to the research community. The Yale Peabody Museum serves an increasingly diverse community, both within and outside the University. YPM collections serve as central foci for these services. Through outreach efforts -- in the form of behind-the-scenes tours, as well as public lectures, staff participation in YPM public events, and collaborative science-initiatives with the New Haven and surrounding public school districts -- the Vertebrate Paleontology Division has long been a linchpin in the Museum's efforts to educate and involve the public in both the current and historical scientific worlds. Yale has renewed its commitment to collecting, collections, and collections-based research, as demonstrated by the recent opening of a new facility for collections, teaching, and research, the Environmental Science Center. Only by proper conservation and continued care of museum collections can the information they hold be made fully available to the researchers, students, and general public of today, while being enhanced and preserved for future generations.

耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆的普林斯顿藏品和超大化石的保护 在 Jacques Gauthier 的指导下，耶鲁大学获得了一笔拨款，用于保护耶鲁大学皮博迪自然历史博物馆 (YPM) 普林斯顿 (PU) 藏品中的化石，保存非常大（超大）的 YPM 标本，并增强与藏品的这些部分相关的数据库。这笔赠款将使该部门能够提高馆藏的策展标准，并使研究人员、工作人员、学生和全世界更容易接触到这些藏品。 1985 年，普林斯顿大学放弃了古生物学项目，这 15,000 个 PU 标本成为孤儿，从未得到妥善安置。 PU 藏品尤其以 1890 年代末收集的南美哺乳动物而闻名，拥有几乎所有主要脊椎动物分支的代表，包括数百种不可替代的正模标本。 该项目将修复破损的标本，用聚乙烯泡沫填充托盘，根据需要为标本建造支架，其中包括 245 个用于超大标本的支架，从而改善标本及其外壳的物理条件。 该项目还将清点整个 PU 收藏以及所有接受保护处理的标本，为每个标本提供详细的物理位置和元素描述。库存组件将通过 YPM 网站使可用数据类型多样化，并支持研究界的新水平的实用性。 耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆为大学内外日益多元化的社区提供服务。 YPM 集合是这些服务的中心焦点。 通过幕后参观、公开讲座、工作人员参与 YPM 公共活动以及与纽黑文和周边公立学区的科学合作倡议等形式的外展工作，脊椎动物古生物学部长期以来一直是博物馆教育公众并让他们参与当前和历史科学世界的关键。 耶鲁大学重申了对收藏、收藏和基于收藏的研究的承诺，最近开设的新收藏、教学和研究设施——环境科学中心就证明了这一点。 只有通过对博物馆藏品的适当保护和持续维护，它们所掌握的信息才能充分提供给当今的研究人员、学生和公众，同时为子孙后代得到增强和保存。