Curation of Vertebrate Spirit Specimens of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

耶鲁大学皮博迪自然历史博物馆脊椎动物灵魂标本的馆藏

• 批准号: 0847899
• 负责人: Richard Prum
• 金额: $ 35万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0847899&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Curation; Vertebrate; Spirit; Specimens; Yale

The Yale Peabody Museum (YPM) houses a world-renowned collection of vertebrate specimens. Approximately 30 percent of the entire holdings of the Division of Vertebrate Zoology (VZ) are fluid-preserved specimens. The goal of this project is to recurate the entire fluid-preserved vertebrate zoology collections of YPM, to facilitate accessibility of the collections, and to promote their use in research and education. YPM-VZ?s fluid-preserved collections have been amassed over more than 160 years by Yale academics, researchers from other institutions, and government agencies. We will recurate of the entire spirit specimen collections in the YPM-VZ including fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. These activities will include rejarring, relabeling, changing fluids, checking identifications, evaluating data quality, etc. The rehousing and improvement of storage conditions of the VZ spirit collections will help preserve these unique materials, and foster comparative biological research on them. Recuration will foster accessibility to visitors, faculty, and students wishing to use the collections. The project will provide curation, identification, and database training for Yale undergraduates, and high school interns (most of whom are under-represented minority students) through the YPM's after-school intern program.

耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆(YPM)收藏了世界闻名的脊椎动物标本收藏。脊椎动物动物部(VZ)的全部藏品中约有30%是流体保存的标本。这个项目的目标是重复使用YPM的整个流体保存的脊椎动物动物学收藏品，方便人们获取这些收藏品，并促进它们在研究和教育中的应用。YPM-VZ？S液体保存的藏品由耶鲁大学学者、其他机构和政府机构的研究人员积累了160多年。我们将循环收集YPM-VZ的全部白酒标本，包括鱼类、两栖动物、爬行动物、鸟类和哺乳动物。这些活动将包括重新加罐、重新标记、更换液体、检查身份、评估数据质量等。重新安置和改善VZ白酒收藏的储存条件将有助于保存这些独特的材料，并促进对它们的比较生物学研究。恢复将促进游客、教职员工和希望使用这些藏品的学生的可访问性。该项目将通过YPM的课后实习生计划，为耶鲁大学本科生和高中实习生(他们中的大多数是代表不足的少数族裔学生)提供管理、识别和数据库培训。