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

该项目将管理来自热带东太平洋偏远地区的27,000个中上层鱼类标本和400个沿海鱼类的历史收藏。这将显著增加海洋脊椎动物物种-S在中上层和深水海产品以及东太平洋沿海鱼类方面的优势。将安装一个数字放射成像系统，以加强管理程序和研究能力，否则无法获得的收集记录将被数字化并张贴在海洋脊椎动物收集网站上。这些孤儿和历史收集以及海洋脊椎动物收集记录将大大加强对鱼类的分类学、生物地理学和发育的研究，并有助于研究人类活动和气候变化如何影响东太平洋的鱼类群落。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，而MVC是最大的鱼类收藏机构之一，直接隶属于一所高等教育机构。该项目将为研究生和本科生提供采集管理技术和鱼类系统学方面的培训。这些收藏和档案中的信息将通过网络提供给研究人员，并将加强MVC工作人员、斯克里普斯白桦水族馆和其他机构的推广和教学努力。

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.