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

改善卡内基自然历史博物馆节肢动物标本研究的资源

• 批准号: 0545426
• 负责人: John Rawlins
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Carnegie Institute
• 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: 2006-03-01 至 2009-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0545426&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Resources; Specimen; Based; Research

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.

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，并对该研究所的节肢动物藏品进行其他升级。该藏品包含了1500多万份具有重大历史和科学价值的昆虫和其他节肢动物标本。该项目将用新的抽屉改造数百个现有的橱柜，以容纳标本。钉住的样品将被转移到新的外壳中。来自大量甲壳类动物和跳蚤玻片标本的数据将被输入数据库，以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管理方面的专业知识。该项目将翻新历史空间Holland Room，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窗口。每年将从匹兹堡大学为该项目招募三名学生，在此期间，他们将接受管理和数据库技术方面的培训。