Curation of Fluid Preserved Vertebrates and Invertebrates - A Collaborative Proposal from the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

野生动物和鱼类生物学博物馆和博哈特昆虫学博物馆(均隶属于加州大学戴维斯分校)从NSF生物研究收藏赠款计划中获得495,535美元。这笔赠款将资助他们所拥有的酒精保存标本的保管需要吗？近35,000种脊椎动物和200,000只昆虫。它将通过改进标本保存、储存、库存(使用新的条形码系统)和数据库来帮助他们。两家博物馆将通力合作，以减少重复工作，提高效率。目标是提高管理标准、安全性和标本的可获得性。由于他们的创新项目，这些博物馆已经成为加州(和全国)的宝贵资源，收藏使用和服务也相应地提高。除了博物馆标本的传统用途外，它们还提供更广泛的服务，包括：为机构和私人生物学家提供物种鉴定工作坊；在加州大学戴维斯分校教育学生(它们支持校园内的34门课程，每年有1900多名学生参加)；以及支持K-12学生和教师团体的参观。加在一起，他们的藏品每年有超过10,000人参观，其中89%是普通公众。作为更广泛使用的结果，标本需要很高水平的管理和维护。研究人员的查阅请求保持稳定，平均每年使用他们的藏书出版10份出版物。

The Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and Bohart Museum of Entomology, (both of the University of California, Davis) have been awarded $495,535 from the NSF Biological Research Collections Grant Program. This grant will fund curation needs for the alcohol preserved specimens in their holdings ? nearly 35,000 vertebrates and 200,000 insects. It will assist them by improving specimen preservation, storage, inventory (with new bar-coding system), and databasing. The two museums will work collaboratively in order to reduce duplicative efforts and improve efficiency. Objectives are to improve curation standards, safety, and accessibility to specimens.Due to their innovative programs, these museums have become valued resources in California (and nationally) and collection use and services have correspondingly advanced. In addition to more traditional uses of museum specimens, they provide broader services including: providing species identification workshops for agency and private biologists; educating students at UC Davis (they support 34 courses on campus reaching over 1,900 students annually); and supporting tours of K-12 students and teachers groups. Combined, their collections are visited by over 10,000 persons each year of which 89% are members of the general public. As a result of broader use, the specimens require a high level of curation and maintenance. Requests for access by researchers remains steady, with an average of 10 publications annually produced using their holdings.