Collaborative Proposal--Curation, Data Basing and Integration of the Orphaned Illinois Mammal Collection

在Joseph A.博士的指导下，新墨西哥州大学获得了奖项。库克从伊利诺斯州自然历史博物馆拯救了一个孤儿哺乳动物收藏品，并将其重新分配给其他三个机构收藏品，在那里这些标本可以安全地存放并用于研究和教育。 大约47,000个哺乳动物的皮肤和骨骼标本将被重新安置。 这些标本是在过去的世纪从美国、墨西哥和菲律宾的各种地点收集的。 值得注意的部分包括亚利桑那州的标本，用于该州哺乳动物的专著，濒危墨西哥灰狼的标本，以及许多因人类发展或气候变化而改变的地点的标本。 这些标本提供了哺乳动物在这个国家的分布的物理记录，并为土地管理者和环境研究提供了重要数据。标本将被送往新墨西哥州大学的西南生物学博物馆。犹他州杨百翰大学的豆子博物馆和伊利诺斯州的菲尔德自然历史博物馆，在那里它们将被整合到其他哺乳动物收藏中，新的标本将增加这些机构的区域优势。 储存条件将得到改善，与标本有关的数据将被收集到一个在线数据库中，供世界各地的研究人员和教育工作者使用。 许多学生将被招募为该项目，这将为本科生和研究生的研究提供材料。

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.