CSBR: Natural History Collections -- Digitizing the Historical Egg Sets of the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology

CSBR：自然历史收藏——数字化西方脊椎动物学基金会的历史蛋组

• 批准号: 1203374
• 负责人: Linnea Hall
• 金额: $ 48.84万
• 依托单位: Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203374&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Collections; Digitizing

The Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (WFVZ) is a non-profit museum in Ventura Co., California. It houses collections of more than 200,000 cataloged sets of birds' eggs and 18,000 nests -- the largest of such collections in North America. Data for 40% of the WFVZ's egg sets of perching birds of the world have not yet been digitized, although the greatest numbers of electronic information requests the Foundation receives deal with these birds (the Passerines). Through this grant, the WFVZ will hire undergraduate biology assistants to fully computerize, georeference, and scan the records for 75,000 egg sets, and photograph them. The data and photos will be shared with researchers and the public through several media and Internet sources, including ORNIS/VerteNet, iDigBio, and the WFVZ's website (http://www.wfvz.org). Bird eggshells are extremely useful and important for understanding environmental impacts and other important issues such as the impacts of global climate change and pollution; species relationships; egg coloration; and historic and current distributions, breeding dates, clutch sizes, egg sizes, and eggshell thicknesses. This project will train young scientists about museum science, bioinformatics, and ornithology, and will engage the general public as well because of the WFVZ's strong connections with its local community. The project will enhance the public?s involvement in science and its understanding of scientific research.

西方脊椎动物学基金会（WFVZ）是文图拉公司的一家非营利性博物馆，加州。它收藏了超过20万套分类的鸟蛋和18,000个鸟巢-这是北美最大的此类收藏。 世界鸟类保护区40%的栖息鸟类卵集的数据尚未数字化，尽管基金会收到的最大数量的电子信息请求与这些鸟类（雀形目）有关。 通过这笔赠款，WFVZ将聘请本科生生物学助理，全面计算，地理参考，并扫描75,000个鸡蛋集的记录，并拍摄它们。 这些数据和照片将通过几个媒体和互联网来源与研究人员和公众分享，包括ORNIS/VerteNet、iDigBio和WFVZ网站（http：www.wfvz.org）。 鸟类蛋壳对于了解环境影响和其他重要问题非常有用和重要，例如全球气候变化和污染的影响;物种关系;鸡蛋颜色;历史和当前分布，繁殖日期，窝卵数，鸡蛋大小和蛋壳厚度。 该项目将培训博物馆科学、生物信息学和鸟类学方面的年轻科学家，并将吸引公众参与，因为WFVZ与当地社区有着密切的联系。 该项目将提高公众？参与科学和理解科学研究。