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

卡内基研究所已获得一笔赠款，用于翻新博物馆的储藏空间和橱柜，并对该研究所的节肢动物收藏进行其他升级。 该博物馆收藏了超过1500万件具有重大历史和科学价值的昆虫和其他节肢动物标本。 该项目将改造数百个现有的橱柜，增加新的抽屉来存放标本。 将固定样本转移至新外壳。 来自大量甲壳类动物和跳蚤幻灯片标本的数据将输入数据库，使科学家和教育工作者更容易获得这些信息。 咨询专家将提供几个主要昆虫群体的专业知识。 该项目将翻新一个历史性的空间，荷兰室，并使新的设施向公众开放，作为一个展示历史系统研究和现代工作是如何完成的。 该项目每年将从匹兹堡大学招募三名学生，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.