Curation of pelagic and coastal fish specimens from the tropical eastern Pacific and infrastructure enhancement of the SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection

该项目将收集来自热带东太平洋偏远地区的27,000种远洋鱼类标本和400种沿海鱼类的历史标本。这些将大大增加海洋脊椎动物的收藏？中国的优势是远洋和深海鱼类，以及东太平洋沿岸鱼类。将安装数码放射照相系统，以提高策展程序和研究能力，否则无法获得的收藏记录将被数字化并发布在海洋脊椎动物收藏（MVC）网站上。这些孤立的历史收藏品和MVC记录将极大地增强对鱼类系统分类学、生物地理学和发展的研究，并有助于研究人类活动和气候变化如何影响东太平洋鱼类群落。斯克里普斯海洋学研究所是世界著名的海洋研究和教育机构，MVC是直接隶属于高等院校的最大的鱼类收藏之一。该项目将为研究生和本科生提供收集管理技术和鱼类系统学方面的培训。来自这些收藏和档案的信息将通过网络提供给研究人员，并将增加MVC工作人员，斯克里普斯桦树水族馆和其他人的外展和教学努力。

This project will curate an orphaned collection of 27,000 pelagic fish specimens fromremote areas of the tropical eastern Pacific Ocean and 400 historical collections of coastal fishes.These will add significantly to the Marine Vertebrate Collection?s strengths in pelagic and deepseafishes, and eastern Pacific coastal fishes. A digital radiography system will be installed toenhance curatorial procedures and research capabilities and otherwise unavailable collectionrecords will be digitized and posted on the Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC) web site.These orphaned and historical collections and MVC records will significantly augmentstudies on systematics, biogeography and development of fishes and contribute to research onhow human activities and climate change have affected fish communities in the eastern PacificOcean. Scripps Institution of Oceanography is a world-renowned institution of ocean researchand education and the MVC is one of the largest fish collections directly affiliated with aninstitution of higher learning. This project will provide training in collection managementtechniques and fish systematics to graduate and undergraduate students. Information from these collections and archives will be made available to researchers via the web and will augment outreach and teaching efforts by MVC staff, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and others.