Facilities and Database Improvements for the Museum of WIldlife and Fish Biology, U. C. Davis

在道格拉斯·凯尔特博士和小安德鲁·恩吉利斯的指导下，加州大学戴维斯分校获得了一笔赠款。部分支援加州大学戴维斯分校(MWFB)野生动物及鱼类生物学博物馆(MWFB)的设施升级及完成鸟类及哺乳动物藏品的管理工作。该大学将把这些资金用于更换陈旧和不完善的博物馆陈列柜，这些陈列柜目前存放着哺乳动物收藏和一些鸟类。新的案件还将允许扩大收藏。使用托盘的抽屉存储系统将使收藏品能够更有效地划分，同时最大限度地减少损害并改进访问和组织；将完成所有骨骼材料的整理、改进存储和加固；将修订皮肤、骨骼和液体保存标本的标签系统；将对所有收藏品进行编目并输入正在开发的计算机数据库，该数据库将通过世界卫生组织网页上的在线(万维网)搜索引擎获得。重要的是，这些资金将使MWFB能够完成自己收藏与从孤儿或捐赠收藏中获得的收藏的整合。MWFB是UCD校区30门本科生和研究生课程的重要资源，并定期为地区大学和小学提供教育需要的材料。标本也被几个机构用于培训，在加利福尼亚州提供了独特的资源，因为大多数研究收藏不允许将标本用于教学需要。我们将改善对涉及系统学、物种分布、禽病、形态学、遗传学和相关学科研究的研究人员的外部请求。MWFB保存的标本独特地记录了加州和美国西南部的生物多样性。我们预计新温带和新热带国家以及夏威夷群岛的藏品数量将会增加。MWFB已成为加利福尼亚州一种重要且越来越有价值的资源，这些藏品的使用范围一直在扩大，现在经常包括来自北美各地的请求。该博物馆最初是为了支持野生动物、鱼类和保护生物学系的教学需求而建立的，现在已经成长为加州第三大由大学管理的藏品。除了内部增长，博物馆还吸收了三个孤儿收藏品(加州大学戴维斯分校动物学收藏品、加州大学欧文脊椎动物收藏品和米尔斯学院收藏品)和其他收藏品(例如，来自雷耶斯角鸟类天文台和美国河流社区学院(加利福尼亚州萨克拉门托)的大量材料)。改善MWFB材料的互联网接入将为贷款和机构培训活动的协调提供便利。我们将通过重组收藏室改善现场设施的使用，并为合作参观Bohart昆虫学博物馆和MWFB的K-12团体提供协调访问。

A grant has been awarded to the University of California - Davis under the direction of Dr. Douglas Kelt and Andrew Engilis, Jr. for partial support of upgrading facilities and completing curation of the avian and mammalian collections of the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, University of California, Davis (MWFB). The University will apply these funds to the replacement of old and inadequate museum cases that currently house the mammal collection and some birds. The new cases will also allow for expansion of the collection. A drawer storage system using trays will allow more efficient compartmentalization of collections while minimizing damage and improving access and organization; curation, improved storage, and consolidation of all osteological materials will be completed; labeling systems for skins, skeletal, and liquid-preserved specimens will be revised; all collections will be inventoried and entered into a developing computer database, which will be made available through an online (World Wide Web) search engine accessible from the MWFB web page. Importantly, these funds will allow MWFB to complete the integration of its own collections with those obtained from orphaned or donated collections. The MWFB serves as a critical resource for 30 undergraduate and graduate courses on the UCD campus, and routinely loans materials for educational needs by regional universities and grade schools. Specimens also are used by several agencies for training, providing a unique resource in California as most research collections do not allow specimens to be used for instructional needs. We will improve access to outside requests by researchers that involved studies of systematics, species distribution, avian diseases, morphology, genetics, and related disciplines. Specimens housed in MWFB uniquely document the biological diversity of California and Southwestern United States. We expect collections growth in Neotemperate and Neotropical countries and the Hawaiian Islands.The MWFB has become an important and increasingly valued resource in California, and use of these collections has been expanding and now routinely includes requests from around North America. The museum was originally established to support the teaching needs of the Department of Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology and has now grown to be the third largest university-managed collection in California. In addition to internal growth, the museum has absorbed three orphaned collections (the U.C. Davis Zoology collection, the U. C. Irvine vertebrate collection, and the Mills College collection) and other collections (e.g., substantial materials from the Point Reyes Bird Observatory and from American River Community College (Sacramento, CA)). Improving internet access to materials in the MWFB will facilitate loans and coordination of agency training events. We will improve on site use of the facilities through reorganization of the collection room, and provide coordinated access by K-12 groups that cooperatively tour the Bohart Museum of Entomology and the MWFB.