CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Incorporation of the orphaned UCLA Fish Collection into the Marine Vertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

自然历史收集是记录生物多样性的重要资源，并为评估物种丰度和分布随时间的变化提供必要的基线信息。这些收藏是不可替代的，因为通常很难复制过去的收藏活动，因此代表着超越世代的遗产资源。该项目将把以前存放在加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)的分类和地理上多样化的鱼类收藏纳入加州大学圣地亚哥分校的斯克里普斯海洋研究所海洋脊椎动物收藏(MVC)。标本将经过整理，为未来几代科学家和教育工作者保存它们的完整性。此外，它们将被建立数据库，以增加研究人员的可及性。该奖项还支持将MVC的外展活动扩大到圣地亚哥的弱势青年。这些活动将为未来的领导者介绍潜在的职业机会，他们通过与海洋发现研究所的一个合作项目探索鱼类的多样性和生态重要性。加州大学洛杉矶分校生态和进化生物学系最近将其鱼类收藏转移到斯克里普斯海洋脊椎动物研究所(MVC)。MVC是这一孤立物种的合理储存库，因为它将这些资源保留在加州大学内，该机构为建立这两个物种的基础设施提供了资金，而且它显著改善了MVC对东太平洋鱼类的持有量。加州大学洛杉矶分校的收藏包括各种可以追溯到20世纪40年代和50年代的海洋鱼类，代表着来自加利福尼亚州、热带东太平洋及其海洋岛屿的广泛的沿海鱼类收藏。这种材料增加了MVC的重要成分，包括近100个MVC新种和近500个代表性较差的物种的标本。该奖项帮助一名敬业的工作人员将加州大学洛杉矶分校的标本数据输入MVC编目系统和数据库，监督加州大学圣迭戈分校的本科生收集加州大学洛杉矶分校的标本，并参与与海洋发现研究所扩大的外联活动。海洋探索研究所在圣地亚哥地区的公共教育方面拥有无与伦比的记录，并拥有资源来评估和继续这些努力的影响，远远超过该奖项的期限。

Natural history collections are important resources that document biodiversity and provide baseline information necessary for assessing changes in the abundance and distribution of species over time. These collections are irreplaceable, as it is usually difficult to replicate past collecting events, and thus represent legacy resources that transcend generations. This project will incorporate a taxonomically and geographically diverse collection of fishes, previously housed at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC) at the University of California San Diego. Specimens will be curated to preserve their integrity for future generations of scientists and educators. Additionally, they will be databased to increase their accessibility to researchers. This award also supports the expansion of the MVC's outreach activities to disadvantaged youth in San Diego. These activities will introduce future leaders to potential career opportunities as they explore the diversity and ecological importance of fishes through a collaborative project with the Ocean Discovery Institute.The UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology recently transferred its fish collection to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC). The MVC is the logical repository for this orphaned collection because it retains these resources within the University of California, the institution that funded the infrastructure to build both collections, and it significantly improves the MVC's holdings of eastern Pacific fishes. The UCLA collection includes a variety of marine fishes dating to the 1940s and 1950s representing extensive collections of coastal fishes from California, the tropical eastern Pacific and its oceanic islands. This material adds significant components to the MVC including nearly 100 species new to the MVC and specimens of nearly 500 poorly represented species. This award facilitates the support of a dedicated staff member to enter UCLA specimen data into the MVC cataloging system and database, supervise a UCSD undergraduate student working with the UCLA collection, and participate in expanded outreach activities with the Ocean Discovery Institute. The Ocean Discovery Institute has an unparalleled record of public education in the San Diego area, as well as the resources to assess and continue the impact of these efforts well beyond the duration of this award.