CSBR: Natural History Collections: Curatorial upgrade and database development of the former George Gray Museum

CSBR：自然历史收藏：前乔治·格雷博物馆的策展升级和数据库开发

• 批准号: 1203483
• 负责人: Leo Buss
• 金额: $ 13.71万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2016-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Collections; Curatorial

In 1994 the specimens of the former George M. Gray Museum of the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) were transferred to the Yale Peabody Museum. Included in this material were the large collections of New England region invertebrates amassed by the Systematic Ecology Program (1962-1972). Although safely stored in the museum's Environmental Science Center, much of the collection is uncataloged and in need of complete curatorial upgrade. This material comprises 20,000 fluid-preserved specimen lots accompanied by detailed collection data. The primary goal of this project is to recurate and electronically catalog these specimens, with the resulting dataset made available via the internet to a global audience of scientists, educators, and students.In addition to upgrading the utility of the former Gray Museum collection, this project is an opportunity to introduce undergraduate student assistants to museum best practices as they complete the curatorial tasks. Furthermore, a component of this project will be to develop an image gallery of New England invertebrates; these images will supplement an existing identification manual for this region. To enhance understanding of the utility of museum collections for the study of biodiversity, ecology and evolution, a workshop for science teachers will be developed and hosted by the Peabody Museum; the primary specimen resource for this workshop will be the collections that are the subject of this grant.

1994年，前乔治M.格雷海洋生物实验室博物馆（伍兹霍尔，MA）被转移到耶鲁皮博迪博物馆。 这些材料中包括系统生态学计划（1962-1972）收集的大量新英格兰地区无脊椎动物。 虽然安全地存放在博物馆的环境科学中心，但大部分藏品都没有编目，需要全面升级。 该材料包括20，000个液体保存的样本批次，并附有详细的采集数据。 该项目的主要目标是对这些标本进行递归和电子编目，并通过互联网向全球科学家、教育工作者和学生提供所产生的数据集。除了提升格雷博物馆前藏品的实用性外，该项目还为本科生助理提供了一个机会，让他们在完成策展任务时了解博物馆的最佳实践。 此外，该项目的一个组成部分将是开发一个新英格兰无脊椎动物图片库;这些图片将补充该地区现有的识别手册。 为了加强对博物馆收藏品的生物多样性，生态学和进化的研究效用的理解，科学教师的研讨会将开发和皮博迪博物馆主办;本次研讨会的主要标本资源将是收藏品，是这个补助金的主题。