Improving Resources for Specimen-Based Research on Arthropods at Carnegie Museum of Natural History

卡内基研究所获得了一笔赠款，用于翻新博物馆的存储空间和橱柜，并对该机构的节肢动物收藏进行其他升级。该馆收藏了1500多万件昆虫和其他节肢动物标本，具有重要的历史和科学价值。该项目将改造数百个现有的橱柜，安装新的抽屉来存放标本。固定的标本将被转移到新的房屋。来自大量甲壳类动物和跳蚤标本的数据将被输入一个数据库，使科学家和教育工作者更容易获得这些信息。咨询专家将在几个主要昆虫群体的管理方面提供专业知识。该项目将翻新一个历史空间，荷兰室，并使新设施向公众开放，作为历史系统研究和现代工作如何完成的展示。每年将从匹兹堡大学招募三名学生参与该项目，在此期间，他们将接受策展和数据库技术方面的培训。

A grant has been awarded the Carnegie Institute to renovate museum storage space and refurbish cabinets and perform other upgrades to the arthropod collection of the institution. The collection contains more than 15 million specimens of insects and other arthropods of great historical and scientific value. The project will retrofit several hundred existing cabinets with new drawers to hold specimens. Pinned specimens will be transferred to the new housings. Data from a large collection of crustaceans and from a collection of slide specimens of fleas will be entered into a database to make the information more accessible to scientists and educators. Consulting experts will provide expertise in curation of several major insect groups. The project will renovate a historic space, the Holland Room, and make the new facility accessible to the public as a showcase for historical systematic research and how modern work is done. Three students per year will be recruited from the University of Pittsburgh for the project, during which time they will be trained in curation and database techniques.