Collaborative Research: Curation, Data Basing, and Integration of the Orphaned Illinois Mammal Collection

合作研究：伊利诺伊州孤儿哺乳动物收藏的管理、数据基础和整合

• 批准号: 0738375
• 负责人: Lawrence Heaney
• 金额: $ 3.3万
• 依托单位: Field Museum of Natural History
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2010-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0738375&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Curation; Data; Basing

An award has been made to the University of New Mexico under the direction of Dr. Joseph A. Cook to rescue an orphaned mammal collection from the Illinois Museum of Natural History and redistribute it to three other institutional collections, where the specimens can be housed safely and used in research and education. Approximately 47,000 specimens of mammal skins and skeletons will be re-housed. These specimens were collected over the past century from a wide variety of locations in the United States, Mexico, and the Philippines. Notable portions of the collection include Arizona specimens used in a monograph on mammals from that state, specimens of the endangered Mexican Grey Wolf, and collections from many sites that have been changed by human development or subject to climate change. Such specimens provide physical record of the distribution of mammals in this country and provide important data for land managers and environmental studies. Specimens will go to the Museum of Southwestern Biology at the University of New Mexico, the Monte L. Bean Museum at Brigham Young University in Utah, and the Field Museum of Natural History in Illinois, where they will be integrated into other mammal collections where the new specimens will add to the regional strengths of the institutions. Storage conditions will be improved, and the data associated with the specimens will be captured for an online database that will be accessible to a worldwide community of researchers and educators. Many students will be recruited for the project, and this will provide material for undergraduate and graduate student research.

在约瑟夫·A·库克（Joseph A. Cook）博士的指导下向新墨西哥大学颁发了奖项，以从伊利诺伊州自然历史博物馆营救出孤立的哺乳动物收藏，并将其重新分配给其他三个机构收藏，在那里可以安全地将标本放置在研究和教育中。 将重新铺设大约47,000个哺乳动物皮肤和骨骼标本。 这些标本是在过去一个世纪中从美国，墨西哥和菲律宾的各种地点收集的。 该系列的显着部分包括来自该州的哺乳动物专着中使用的亚利桑那标本，濒临灭绝的墨西哥灰狼的标本，以及许多因人类发展或受气候变化而改变的地点的收藏品。 这样的标本提供了该国哺乳动物分布的物理记录，并为土地管理者和环境研究提供重要数据。标本将前往新墨西哥大学西南生物学博物馆，犹他州杨百翰大学的蒙特L. Bean博物馆，以及伊利诺伊州的田野自然历史博物馆，在那里它们将融入其他哺乳动物收藏品中，在那里新的标本将增加机构的机构实力。 存储条件将得到改善，并且将捕获与标本相关的数据，以捕获一个在线数据库，该数据库将为全球研究人员和教育者社区访问。 许多学生将被招募到该项目，这将为本科和研究生研究提供材料。