SGER: Rescuing an important collection of Cambodian mammal specimens for curation and archiving at the University of Alaska Museum

这笔赠款将资助一次前往柬埔寨金边的紧急探险，以取回大量孤儿生物标本，这些标本目前有很高的风险无法供保护和科学界使用。这些标本目前由野生动物保护协会(WCS)控制，保存在暴露在雨水和阳光下的开阔区域。在某些情况下，形态和遗传数据已经严重受损，可能无法赎回。在另一些情况下，随着标签褪色、解体或解离，高质量的标本正在失去相关信息，如果没有准确的地理信息和收集信息，这些标本就失去了很大的科学价值。WCS没有资源、设施或预算来对这些标本进行适当的持续维护或向研究界提供这些标本。这笔赠款将允许阿拉斯加大学(UAM)的工作人员前往柬埔寨，对标本进行分类、鉴定和适当存储，并将整个收藏品运回UAM，在那里将根据批准的收藏品管理政策对其进行永久存档、访问和存储。

This grant will fund an emergency expedition to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to retrieve a large collection of orphaned biological specimens that are currently at high risk of becoming unusable to the conservation and scientific communities. These specimens, presently under the control of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), are kept in an open area exposed to rain and sunlight. In some cases, morphological and genetic data are already severely compromised and may not be redeemable. In others, high-quality specimens are losing associated information as labels fade, disintegrate, or become dissociated, and without accurate geographic and collecting information such specimens lose much of their scientific value. WCS has no resources, facilities, or budget for the proper continuous maintenance of these specimens or for making them available to the research community. This grant will allow the personnel at the University of Alaska (UAM) to travel to Cambodia, sort, identify, and properly store the specimens, and transport the entire collection back to UAM, where it will be permanently archived, accessioned, and stored in accordance with approved collections management policies.