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

该项目将从东太平洋热带偏远地区收集27，000件浮游鱼类标本，并收集400件沿海鱼类历史标本。中国在中上层和深海鱼类以及东太平洋沿岸鱼类方面的优势。将安装一个数字化X射线照相系统，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张贴在海洋脊椎动物收藏（MVC）网站上。这些孤儿和历史收藏和MVC记录将大大增加系统学研究，研究人类活动和气候变化对东部鱼类群落的影响，太平洋。斯克里普斯海洋研究所是世界著名的海洋研究和教育机构，MVC是高等院校直接附属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宣传和教学工作。

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.