Digitization, Conversion, and Accessibility of The Field Museum's Bat Fly Collection

菲尔德博物馆蝙蝠蝇收藏的数字化、转换和可访问性

• 批准号: 0545051
• 负责人: Carl Dick
• 金额: $ 40.69万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-02-15 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545051&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Digitization; Conversion; Accessibility; Field; Museum

A grant has been awarded to the Field Museum of Natural History under the direction of Dr. Carl W. Dick to construct a database for a natural history collection of bat flies, parasites of mammals. The collection is the largest in the world (82,000 specimens) and contains information on the parasitic bat flies as well as their bat hosts. The collection and its data are a valuable resource for ecologists studying the host-parasite relationships of this group of organisms. The database will be available online and provide information on identification, geographic range, and images of 176 specimens that were described as new to science (type species). High school students will participate in summer education programs under the direction of a teacher from a nearby high school. Graduate students from Ecuador and Brazil, where these parasites are common, will be trained during the project.

一笔赠款已授予菲尔德自然历史博物馆在博士卡尔W。迪克建立了一个数据库，收集蝙蝠蝇的自然历史，哺乳动物的寄生虫。 该收藏是世界上最大的（82，000个标本），包含关于寄生蝙蝠苍蝇及其蝙蝠宿主的信息。 收集和它的数据是生态学家研究这组生物体的宿主-寄生虫关系的宝贵资源。 该数据库将在网上提供，并提供176个被描述为新的科学标本（模式种）的识别，地理范围和图像的信息。 高中生将在附近高中老师的指导下参加暑期教育项目。 来自厄瓜多尔和巴西的研究生，这些寄生虫是常见的，将在项目期间接受培训。