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·恩吉利斯博士的指导下，加州大学戴维斯分校获得了一笔赠款。为加州大学戴维斯分校野生动物和鱼类生物学博物馆（MWFB）的设施升级和鸟类和哺乳动物藏品的管理提供部分支持。 该大学将把这些资金用于更换旧的和不足的博物馆案件，目前的房子哺乳动物收藏和一些鸟类。 新的案件也将允许扩大收集。 使用托盘的抽屉存储系统将允许更有效地划分收藏品，同时最大限度地减少损坏并改善访问和组织;将完成所有骨骼材料的管理，改进存储和整合;将修订皮肤，骨骼和液体保存标本的标签系统;所有收藏品将被清点并输入一个正在开发的计算机数据库，这些信息将通过可从MWFB网页访问的在线（万维网）搜索引擎提供。 重要的是，这些资金将使MWFB能够完成自己的收藏与从孤儿或捐赠收藏中获得的收藏的整合。 MWFB作为UCD校园30个本科和研究生课程的关键资源，并定期为区域大学和小学的教育需求提供贷款材料。 标本也被几个机构用于培训，在加州提供了一个独特的资源，因为大多数研究收藏不允许标本用于教学需要。 我们将改善涉及系统学，物种分布，鸟类疾病，形态学，遗传学和相关学科研究人员的外部请求。 存放在MWFB的标本独特地记录了加州和美国西南部的生物多样性。我们预计在新温带和新热带国家和夏威夷群岛的收藏增长。MWFB已成为加州的一个重要的和越来越有价值的资源，这些收藏的使用一直在扩大，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，现在已经发展成为加州第三大大学管理的收藏。 除了内部增长，博物馆还吸收了三个孤儿收藏品（加州大学）。戴维斯动物学收藏，美国。C.欧文脊椎动物收藏，和米尔斯学院收藏）和其他收藏（例如，来自Point Reyes Bird Observatory和American River Community College（萨克拉门托，CA）的大量材料）。 通过互联网更好地获取妇女事务和林业局的材料将有助于贷款和机构培训活动的协调。我们将通过重组收集室来改善设施的现场使用，并为K-12团体提供协调的访问，这些团体合作参观了Bohart昆虫学博物馆和MWFB。

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.